@Awaclus, your suggestion appeared to be that we should massclaim with a 50% chance. Do you believe that your plan has at least a 50% chance of being beneficial to town?
Compared to what?
Compared specifically to not following through on the plan you propose, since I think in general we need town consensus before a massclaim happens.
What I'm driving at is this: you're
sort of correct in that we don't know anything about this set-up except for our individual roles. The only extra info we have is that faust has designed the game to be balanced, and my belief is that he wouldn't make a game that's too breakable or too swingy, or too far from what any of us expects as an RMM. I think mods typically like running games because they like players enjoying their construct, and get something out of contributing to the community of mafia players here. So, I think faust's game is
reasonably close to other types of RMM games.
This is where IDP's question at #133/#134 is relevant: do we as a group believe that massclaiming D1 is
ever good for town? I'm not convinced the answer is yes, and even if there was one pathological game you could cite, we'd still be left with the question of whether faust would offer up such a game to us now. So I think the chance of any random RMM game being constructed such that a D1 massclaim is good for town is lower than 5%. Yes, we don't know the specifics of this game, so it's
fair for you to cite that you can't know what's going on, but it's
also shortsighted because we
can use prior information to make better judgements than random.
Anyway, I'm sure I'll regret trying to waid in with logic when you and IDP are having so much fun swamping the thread with chit-chat, but your attitude is irritating enough that I'm sorely tempted to join EFHW on the Awaclus train just now.