Glad to finally be in this game.
I've been keeping up with the thread since the previous replacement request. I couldn't replace in then, as I had too long a period without internet access upcoming. My holiday is over now, though, so here I am. I've fully read the thread and am ready to play. In fact, I'm writing these two posts before I've even received my rolepm.
First things first:
- I'm an unlimited PGO. This means that a gunsmith would not receive a false guilty on me, as they would die before getting their results. This means that there are no claimed roles who would give a gunsmith a false guilty, making gunsmith an unlikely role to be in the game.
- The odd-night modifier is strange, when all other claimed and flipped roles were either one shot or unlimited.
- Odd-night gunsmith + tracker + town universal backup is too much investigative power, particularly with a doctor around to protect. Kison is confirmed tracker because of his result on rofl, making Old Man the likely fakeclaim.
- The "I was roleblocked" claim is a very convenient way to avoid having to make up more results.
- If mafia had a roleblocker, they would likely have blocked kison over Old Man night 3, as kison's claim was unforced and therefore more believable (whereas Old Man had to come up with something good after his IC fakeclaim).
- If mafia had a roleblocker, they would have used it to block either kison or pine night 4.
- Mafia had a strongman. If Old Man is town, they could have killed his IC claim night 1, or his Odd Night Gunsmith claim night 2, without worrying about protection. Yet they kept a powerrole alive without even trying to get him mislynched?
- If Old Man was town, Lycanfire would probably not have adapted his fakeclaim to perfectly match Old Man's (even night vs odd night, cop to verify gunsmith). By doing so, he made it impossible to lynch Old Man before him, when a power role mislynch is one of the more important things for scum to achieve in such a situation.
- The two hours that were between Old Man's claim and Lycan's claim are a very short time period for Lycan to come up with a claim that fit perfectly with Old Man's, especially as there is no indication that Lycan was online when Old Man claimed. It's far more likely that the fakeclaim was cooked up by the entire scumteam during the previous night.
- The IC fakeclaim in general is far more beneficial to Old Man scum then to Old Man town. For scum, it draws protects (which scum expect exists because of strongman), avoids investigations (as IC gets revealed day 2 anyway), and generally causes town confusion. For town, I guess it avoids being roleblocked by a scum roleblocker that might not exist? I'm ignoring avoiding the day 1 mislynch here, as that one applies to both alignements.