So, I think I have a scheme for the rolecop to be able to claim his results every day, but so that he is also able to hide. This is important if the rolecop dies, people will be able to look at his results. So, for this to work, at the beginning of every day, each person posts something to the effect of "if I were a rolecop, I would've investigated [person] and gotten [result]". This way, scum can't know for sure who the rolecop is, but even if they die, their results will be meaningful.
This is interesting. There's a bit of a risk that scum could PoE the RC based on VTs giving implausible results. Maybe the expected game length is short enough not to make it too much of a risk, but it's kind of like certain VTs claiming "not a PR", which we'd usually think is kind of anti-town.
Though if I play with this idea for a minute, why limit it just to the RC? Why not have every player, at the start of every day, claim a result/action for every PR that might be in the game? That means everyone giving a RC result, a tracker result, a watcher result, a doctor target, and a JK target. I mean, on the one hand, it seems ridiculous, but on the other hand, it will make every player reveal real reads on trusted or suspicious players, which we can query, as well as recording game information to use for the good of town after a flip.
It's clearly anti-town
not to give a valid list of thought-out targets with plausible results with that strategy, because if you say something cheeky/rushed, then scum pretty much assume you're a VT and go after the more valuable people. I'd just worry that it would actually take a fair amount of town self-discipline to achieve correctly, and that maybe even nine people is too many to cat-heard into playing along, when two of them are actively against us.
