In an ideal world, I would want everyone to get up to 4 votes real votes and claim... then you have all sorts of good information... but there's just no way to accomplish this - because the pressure doesn't exist without the thread of being lynched.
That is a TERRIBLE thing to wish if you are a townie. In an ideal world, we would force all our power roles to claim on day 1?
Its so majorly fuqqed up I dont even consider it a scumslip but maaaan!
So let me walk you through my thinking there. Lets make some general assumptions that you favor a directed lynch (because then people had to provide a reason) over a random lynch, and a random lynch over no lynch. Agreed?
When we execute a targeted lynch on Day 1 - we'll make it up to L-1 and the following things can happen:
1. Mafia quick hammers before a claim is possible.
2. Town hammers self (I wouldn't include this as a possibility, but it has happened in these forums before)
3. Mafia is being lynched and claims power role.
4. Mafia is being lynched and claims VT
5. Town is being lynched and claims VT
6. Town is being lynched and claims PR.
The general thinking is that you don't lynch PR -> so there's no reason for mafia to claim VT. What ends up happening in this scenario is that we force roleclaims until we hit a VT - and then we end up lynching vanilla town.
If we stop lynching VT claims (because its obvious that they are VT at that point), then that starts to let Mafia claim VT and get away with it, which then means that the outcome of lynching is just that we're outing PRs.
End result is - the more people we near lynch - the more information we get regarding bandwagons. We can't plan to near lynch multiple people though, because this reduces the value of the information obtained from the wagon and claim.