NoHitter wrote:
Rantai wrote:
So basically you're saying if we assume they're town, they're confirmed town. Might I be able to suggest that we have a little flaw in that?
What I meant by that was that assuming Hika was a Jailkeeper, *insert statistics computation here*.
but what if hika/pieguy isn't town? or if fart or RB lied?
basically, our masons are the only real confirmed town people for town. the other 3? we can't say that they are confirmed, because they might have lied to us. basically, we have three people who might be town, and nobody but the PRs themselves can find out if there is scum amongst them, because we vanilla townies will have a hard time setting a train up if we suspect one of them, as we are the scumsuspects.
on the other hand, scum of course has up to 4 primary targets, those being our PRs that are not only masons (as shooting a mason after them claiming is not that much more useful as shooting a vanilla townie).
what also caught my suspcion is the way you enlisted the roles. like 5-3-4, being confirmed townie, scum and unconfirmed townie respectively. but technically, we as town don't know the difference between scum and unconfirmed town, so basically we are all "unconfirmed". the list would probably look more like 2-3-7, those being confirmed towns, possible PRs and completly unknown people. amongst these unknown people, there could be all 3 scums, or just 2. amongst the possible PRs there could be 1 scum hiding (or 2, if they are really WIFOMy). basically, we can't say almost nothing for certain. the only certain townies are Rantai and BRBP, while RB, fart and pieguy are just people who claim to be PRs, but not necessarily have to be that.
if we break it all down, the massclaim gave us two confirmed townies, while scum got the full information they could possibly need. heck, if they picked rolecop then they will be angry because they could've used that pick for something actually useful. the massclaim didn't bring town nearly as much information as you, NH, and Jinxy said it would. why? because most of it is build on the assumption that nobody lied. and with one townliar, we can already say that this isn't the case anymore.
this whole thing caused a lot of WIFOM, and only very few actual benefits. we also could have gotten the two masons to claim anyway without revealing all of our PRs and we would be practically in the same spot informationwise, but with a lot less WIFOM.