Should a vig who shoots N1 be Modkilled?

[callforjudgement]

I'd like to make something of a counterargument: if you can correctly predict the next day's lynch, you're saving half a mislynch by vigging them, regardless of if they're actually town or not.

Probably the best option (if there's known to be a vig but not who it is) is simply to vote for two players to lynch every day, then lynch one and vig the other. This makes the game effectively double day, and that's widely considered a townisded mechanic.

What you shouldn't be doing as vig is vigging people because you can't get them lynched, or people that the town doesn't generally consider scummy. Don't try to play the hero. You'll be much better off saving the town a mislynch, rather than eliminating a townie who wasn't going to get lynched before you stepped in.

[callforjudgement]

I guess here's the most striking example. Imagine that the game is 3:1, and you're town and have a day ability that kills a random townie. Should you use it?

I'd say yes. It's better than no-lynching, because it gives you a random kill rather than a scum-controlled one, and it reduces the number of townies you could hit by mistake.

[callforjudgement]

It's normally mathematically correct to vig on N0, and aim for someone who's good at scum and bad at town. (Note that such players often tend to be game-ruining or highly erratic, so this has a very high correlation with PokerFace's strategy.)

There are some setups in which N0 vigging is incorrect, but they're rare enough that it's only worth doing in an Open (when you've analysed the setup and calculated that it's a bad idea).

However, most good moderators won't allow players access to N0 vig kills anyway, as doing so means that you have to get more players for your game and not all of them get to play.