And like most games I play, space seems somewhat scummy to me, but maybe just confirmation bias
I agree with your thought on Space, but I think I need to ask them a question.
It's not so surprising that Joseph wants to vote for me, given that I have a habit of starting out voting for him any time he uses that same unimaginative game opening.
@Space, what do you think of the promoter claim?
I didn't spend a lot of time thinking about it, TBH. A lot of discussion had already happened by the time I actually went back to read the setup in enough detail to start forming opinions.
Overall, I believe that any plan based around "town should do this, and they have to because it's townie" is bound to fail because
even if there's clearly a best play for town (which is not a scenario I think we're in here), there's also always at least one townie who's going to do the opposite just because they don't see the utility, don't think it's fun enough to aim purely for optimal play (getting a reputation for it could hurt a player's future scum games), don't like being told what to do, or a mixture of all of the above. I'm pretty sure something like the Worms RMM that faust ran a while back was a good example of a bunch of those factors occurring, at least as I remember my point of view being back then. (Though I do have a really sucky memory, so ymmv on a re-read!).
I do think that faust brought up an interesting point for this current game, about the possibility of lynching before the deadline by which the gladiator has to challenge their opponent. Presumably up until that point, we can all vote freely, rather than only being able to vote for the gladiator (
is that correct?), so trying to get a lynch done by then could be an option. Equally, I see no reason to discuss that option right now because it can be left till D2, and any decisions we make now only serve to decrease the amount of conditional planning scum will otherwise have to do in the night phase.