Lying as town

[Sterling the steampunk]

When, if ever should you lie as town? I feel that there's very little benefit to lying as town and a lot of down sides, but sometimes lying as town can work, for example veteran baiting, basically tell the town you're a role that the Mafia is likely to target so you can kill them. Let's see, you can probably get away with telling the town you're VT when you have a power roles to throw the Mafia off your tail.

[Sterling the steampunk]

I agree, your lies need to serve a purpose, like never claim survivor as town, all it will do is make everyone distrust you, because town don't need survivors to win and it's a common evil claim, and evil roles don't need them either.

Hell even saw town lose because the medium claimed survivor

[Sterling the steampunk]

that's a pretty good lie, tell the town you suspect someone you don't to see how the mafia reacts, but the thing is they can manipulate your read, like killing the person who suspected an innocent player to frame him/her

[Sterling the steampunk]

well that's a over simplification, yes you should lie when it benefits your faction, the question is when does a lie benefits the town?

[Sterling the steampunk]

Agreed, not lying is generally good for town