This post isn't intended to be mean, just accurate.
This may have been the worst display of town play I have ever seen. I'll just hit the big points and let ETL yell at you all for the rest.
1) When a mason claims, he immediately claims his partner or he dies, period. If it's a true claim, he'll die overnight and you'll lose the benefit of a conftown in the next day. If it's a false claim, making him claim will give you a second scum if you ever lynch him. There is no benefit to a town mason not to claim their partner after they claim, since it just introduces insane WIFOM in later days where scum can counter-claim the mason partner in LyLo if the first one is dead.
2) Masons are not confirmed until one of them dies, ever. The benefit of masons is being able to bounce ideas off conftown within the mason group as well as being able to confirm a townie via your flip. There are no other benefits to masons. Equating a mason claim with conftown is as bad as equating a cop claim with conftown before you get any usable results. It's awful.
3) Kop was conftown in Day 4 because without his claim, the setup would have a serial killer. No-one realized this, ever. The masons were not conftown in Day 4 because with or without their claims, there would not be a serial killer. You know there's no serial killer because of the lack of second kill, or at least you can infer that with a very high probability.
4) No, you shouldn't no lynch in LyLo. Good lord.
5) No, you shouldn't claim letters/roles in the early game, period. Scum know how many T's are in the game based on their role (or at least they know them plus or minus 1, since they don't know if a serial killer is present). This information allows them to fake claim easily. There are several fake claims that can't be countered or have a very low probability of being countered. full doc, for instance. And it's a role that's easy to "fake", just claim that you protected someone other than the NK. There's no roles in this setup to track or w/e to prove they're lying. Alternatively, they can claim VT. Since fake claims are possible, you can't insta-clear all claimed PRs like Titus seemed to suggest, so you've gained no info related to who is scum, and you've given up lots of info to scum. Claiming letters, PR or VT, or full roles is scum's wet dream; it tells them exactly where to shoot to hit the PRs early. It turns this game into mountainous very quickly, and the numbers in this setup aren't good for town winning in mountainous. I seriously disagree with Titus on this strategy.
6) The scum team was
incredibly
obvious. I'm not just saying this due to modsight. Persivul egged ETL to self-hammer and then said she should be banned for it. Ocean was incredibly opportunistic. Ranger did not scumhunt in a single post, and there were serious relational tells between him and Persivul (major coaching from Persivul, in particular). Persivul scum-read Ranger all game, but kept pushing counter-wagons whenever a wagon was starting on Ranger and
never
placed a vote on Ranger. This isn't a scum win; it's a town loss.
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