↑ Shadow Dancer wrote:It makes perfectly sense for mafia to not read their role PM, magua. Good scum play simply means to blend in as townie perfectly - and not reading your role PM and hence being ignorant about who your partners are makes that a whole lot easier.
I'm aware of the Quagmire argument; I simply don't believe it. If you are bad enough as scum that you think not reading your Role PM will make you better scum, you'll be *twice* as obvious D2 when your (apparently transparent) behavior changes.
(Or to put it another way: if it were good play, everyone should do it. If everyone did it, would the game improve?)
Shadow Dancer wrote:Besids that maru's play was in no way equivalent to a post 1 dayvig.
How so? Srs question. He took an irreversible action when he had no information that deprived the town of information.
Shadow Dancer wrote:And besides, optimal control of information flow in a information based game always depends on which side has the initiative or can make the more educated decission, and inthis game it's alot about scum nominations which give scum the upper edge which is why town should play less open than normally.
The fact that there are times when it is a good idea for town to do things that deprive the rest of the town of information does not mean that every time this happens, it is a good idea.
