Day 1 is hard! Especially with a town this size. Tomorrow, we'll have the night kills to analyze, maybe some power role results or claims, hopefully a wagon. One could almost say "that's when the real game begins". People have not had a tendency to drop huge scumslips on day 1, not even with Robz and Galzria pressuring them like madmen.
I echo Eevee here. I think the post rate has really dropped, not just because of Dark Ages/Goko, but also because people feel like they've mined all these posts for about as much as they can. Looking at kills/flips/vote orders and agreements/disagreements after the night phase will be more fruitful I suspect. I can keep hunting around and will, but I'm currently voting for the person who feels the scummiest to me.
It's only Day 1, so this won't matter now, but here's a thought. shraeye is on the Axxle bandwagon now. Someone who's as outspoken as shraeye is will have a strong impact on the final lynch. This means that if you're mafia, you can continuously steer the town towards the wrong direction. I say this thought doesn't matter now because we don't know if this is the case. But if Axxle ends up being town, it's a thought to consider. I actually am much less certain now that Axxle is scum. He played with a different style in Mafia I, and he was scum then. I dunno, that was a while ago, so idk if that can apply.
(From Axxle) I'm not a fan of self-meta, but I'll use it anyway. This is how I play town. I usually ignore suspicion against me. If try to scumhunt anyway because, hey, if I get lynched then we have the opinion of a confirmed town out there now. If I spent the whole day trying to defend myself, I wouldn't help the town at all if I get lynched.
There are often claims of "this is how I play town." I don't have the energy to search out others, but I know that Axxle has not been the only one (Morgrim at the very least). These really don't clear any suspicion at all in my mind. I think it is weird to expect that somebody's play style will never evolve, I rarely tend to do the same thing in the same circumstance every game (except chess, gotta build that opening repertoire). To clear anyone becaues they aren't playing this game like they did in Mafia XLI (clearly fake number, since this point is for everyone, not just Axxle) is silly, because if I had mafia twice, I'd be damned sure not to do the same thing I did last time.
I've considered what might happen if Axxle flips town, and I know that that will draw a lot of heat to me. But after all, it takes 9 to lynch so if that does happen hopefully people will realize that there have got to be some townies amongst the voters. Maybe that's the risk I run for being vocal, but it still seems a better option to push for a particular lynch than flip my vote around amongst tons of different people waiting for the stars to align and a quick lynch to come together. That, frankly, sounds like something scum might do, riding the waves of current popular opinion hoping to lynch whoever is convenient. I'm certainly going to take a look over the voting records to see who's done this if I survive the first night.
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