Wow it's dead silent in here.
Let's talk setup for a bit. As far as I can see, there are no viable fakeclaims for scum. This means any claimed PR is either IC'd (this means that they are confirmed town) or counterclaimed (i.e. somebody else claims the role, or a role that cannot coexist with the claimed one).
This means that anyone who claims immediately basically changes their role from whatever they had to Innocent Child. Some roles I think are so weak that this tradeoff is good.
Weak Visitor is a role that offers information only at a great cost, i.e. dying. It also can appear together with Investigation Immune. That interaction is actually not clarified in the setup post. So What happens if a Weak Visitor targets someone who is investigation immune?
Anyway I think the cost is not worth it, and the Weak Visitors should claim.
The Motion Detector is similarly weak. The problem is that their results are ambiguous, and they might even out the other PR. So for claiming here.
Both also have the advantage that they always appear together with stronger roles, so the mafia will have to choose whether to let the other PR live longer or to keep an IC around.
I'm on the fence about Babysitter. I think claiming may be good because targeting them for a kill is dangerous for the mafia. But things are risky there.
Other opinions?
PPE: 2 (meaning 2 posts since I started typing this)
This is interesting. I hadn't actually looked in depth at the setup post yet because I had never played a game of this setup, and didn't read it before signing up because I subbed in at the last second. I think that the setup is kind of swingy. There are certain setups that are much better for town, like the one with Watcher/JK/RB. But then there are other setups that seem very scum favored like Doctor/weak visitor/Role cop.
Anyway, for the things that faust was actually talking about. I could see the value in the weak visitor claiming. They have to preclaim who they are going to target at night anyway right? Otherwise it doesn't really give us that much information.
Motion Detector isn't super weak in this setup, because you will have at most 6 people with motion. Ok, maybe that is actually terrible. Claim would be there.
Babysitter I don't think should claim. If they are a newb, I would definitely kill them N1, because I would have confidence that they were targeting scum and that you could get a free kill (the person they were targeting). So I think they should stay quiet, or if they do ever claim, they need to be quiet about their reads.