But the question is, should you counterclaim
Only time I'd say CCing immediately is good is LyLo (obviously), or day before LyLo (people may not believe your claim).
In post 2, Ether wrote:It depends on things like the size of the game and the utility of your role and whether you have any credibility. (If you're going to get run up in the next few days, then getting forced to counterclaim is gonna look pretty bad.) But for something like a cop in a 13-player game, I'd say more results are good and conventional wisdom is overrated.
Also, I hate the modding meta that there can't be two of any role, and the fact that it's so ubiquitous that changing it now would just randomly punish towns for no good reason. But that's for another time.
In post 0, BNL wrote:Let's say some guy gets driven to L-1 and claims Cop... but you know he is lying as you are the Cop. Obviously counterclaiming will (almost) nearly ensure a scum lynch.
But the question is, should you counterclaimimmediately? Seemingly on this site yes, but I don't see the advantage to it. If you delay counterclaiming by one day, you get one more investigation, forcing scum to kill an otherwise scummy player (or even better: finding another scum). Also people will find it suspicious why the claimed PR wasn't killed, and yet someone else was.
Only time I'd say CCing immediately is good is LyLo (obviously), or day before LyLo (people may not believe your claim).
In post 18, Titus wrote:I would try to subtly counterclaim, by saying there's no way the claim is true and drop massive hints, doubly so if the game is normal.
If janitors are in the game, outright cc.
In post 14, UpTooLate wrote:I actually recently made this mistake in a newbie game that just ended. A widely scumread player claimed cop after I had crumbed it, I CC'd, and we lynched him. He flipped VT (that's another issue in itself) but then I was the NK. I almost immediately regretted it, because he was more than likely going to be lynched anyway, and I shouldn't have put myself out there like that. Oh well, you live and you learn. =)
In post 13, Yarrrrgami wrote:Yar! That's why ye emblazon a big ol' message on yer port bow that reads "Thar can be multiple non-scurvy pirates with the same job on this vessel."
Sure, ye be pretty much confirmin' that thar be at least one duplicate matey, but that's just how the cookie be crumblin'.