I was on V/LA, and was trying to make time to stay caught up.
I was merely voicing my disappointment that out of the other
eleven
players, I seemed to be the only one to have posted in the last two days, and I was sad that there wasn't actually anything to catch up with =[
Anyways, here's my analysis of what's happened so far:
Jack wrote:If the tracker lacks a better target they should follow the bodyguard. If the bodyguard is scum they will be tempted to go nowhere. The threat of them being tracked may force them to go somewhere, and possibly be killed.
The latter half of this is complete wifom.
Mr. Bean wrote:It's been a while since I've played a game with a CPR Doc. Is the idea to just play like a vig?
That's what I would assume, and had I that role, that's how I would play. If I wasn't sure, I would refrain from using my power for that night, because it's better to have 1 kill than 2, if you're mistaken about your target being scum. Insert wifom here. Even though this is only a mini, the chances of the Mafia and CPR Doc selecting the same person are 1/88 (mafia wouldn't kill other mafia, and doc wouldn't select himself, lowering it from 1/144 to 1/88), so I would say yes, it's best to use your power just a vigilante-style role.
Faraday wrote:I don't think it's going to be very useful to direct actions for the first night. I think a mass action claim day 2 may be potentially useful though, but we should probably wait and see.
Here are the ways that could be useful:
1. It would show who thought whom was scum, based on who targeted whom role powers like CPR Doc(?), Redirector, Tracker, etc.
2. It would show who thought whom was town, based on those who targeted others with role powers like Motivator, Networker(?), etc.
So it would definitely show the scum know who suspected them.
As you said, it could be potentially useful. But that doesn't mean that it couldn't also be potentially harmful. I'm undecided at this point whether that'd be beneficial ENOUGH to warrant using it, because it would almost certainly be of great use to the scum, and I'm against it for this reason.
However, if I'm in the minority in my opinion that we shouldn't do it, and there DOES end up being a mass action-claim like Faraday suggested, it would basically nullify the Tracker role (of course, if you believe everyone, you're stupid, because some are obviously lying), but there is still a way I think the Tracker role could be useful: They could target roles that
don't
have a power that 'targets' or 'visits' any other players (i.e. Commuter, Revivor, Role Absorber, and Vanilla) and if their target 'targets' anyone else, they must be scum.
Of course, there's tons of wifom tied up in this suggestion/situation.
Another complication I thought of as I wrote this: If the the tracker could just claim to have tracked a non-targeting/visiting role (i.e. see above), and said that he tracked them to one of the people who died last night (there can be up to three, with Mafia, SK, and CPR Doc). This would be especially devious but again, insert wifom here.
Mr. Bean wrote:everyone should target me tonight except the scum with their kills obv
wifom again. How do we know you're not scum?
CallMeLiam wrote:If a Mafia Absorber were to get my Bodyguard power. would that be bad for the town? Good for the scum, yes. Bad for the SK, yes. Bad for the town?
Again, wifom-ish speculation, but I get a town vibe from this post for some reason.
In the post directly after it:
Jack wrote:That would potentially be good for the town.
It doesn't seem like a useful ability for scum of any kind. I guess the mafia could protect a better powered one of their own, but it doesn't really seem that worth it.
I must have missed this before. Not useful for scum of any kind? If the bodyguard mafia guarded a scumchum with another power who was killed that night, he'd be killed instead, right? Therefore, it'd help the scumteam keep a member with a other powers, and at least they'd have another day to use their other powers. Yes, even as small as it seems, this would help them somewhat.
But wait, it might also help the original killer (SK at least, redirector maybe not so much) because then he'd know that if he killed the same person again the following night (if the first one flipped scum) that he could take out two scum. wifom AGAIN. So maybe you're right, maybe it doesn't really help them.
0_o Maybe disregard that part of my post (?)
Either way, I count
seven
wifom's in my post (now, eight). WTF OOBA, did you do this to us on purpose? it's the only explanation.
