"We'd be much more likely to kill a townie than a scum"

[Nancy Drew 39]

You gotta remember that you atleast have a chance, even if slim, of hitting scum, while scum will only hit town.

the N1 scumkill on scum is a very underrated and potentially overpowered strategy that doesn't see enough play

That is usually disallowed in singleball, isn’t it?

[Nancy Drew 39]

Actually, she’s probably trolling. Sometimes, I’m a bit slow.

[Nancy Drew 39]

I have yet to be in any game where scum deliberately NK’d one of their own and why tf would they, when they could bus to get towncred, which is probably not the best play in most cases anyhow.

[Nancy Drew 39]

I have yet to be in any game where scum deliberately NK’d one of their own and why tf would they, when they could bus to get towncred, which is probably not the best play in most cases anyhow.

On this site, it happened in the first Red Flag game (whose mechanic is that town win if they lynch two scum, but scum self-kills don't count towards that total, so it's to scum's benefit to self-kill if they think they'll get lynched otherwise, and definitely not to scum's benefit to bus).

Offsite, I've seen a scum member NK another when there were no special mechanics in play other than a Janitor. I am of the opinion that this was a bad move (and it becomes obvious what happened as soon as you reach the "day after lylo" and yet the game's still going). That said, IIRC scum won that game, so…

Oh really? Interesting.

[Nancy Drew 39]

"We shouldn't lynch in this situation because we'd be much more likely to kill a townie than a scum."

Ah... the age old argument against lynching. A classic.

The only thing that sucks more than hearing it is trying to explain why you should lynch to an un-receptive player.

Tbf, I have actually been in games where a D1 no lynch made the most sense but that was obviously a very unusual exception. Leucosticte is a newbie to this site and this kind of thinking is far more likely to come from newbie players, so taking that into account, I wouldn’t be too critical. Lecosticte will probably change their mind about this as they gain more experience playing. I was opposed to D1 lynches when I first started playing, that ultimately changed, once I began to understand how mafia actually worked.