Guys, I have no intention of claiming any time soon. I asked that question because bouched said this:
bouchedufou wrote:So this is a random vote to get the guy to claim?
and I wanted him to think about whether or not a claim at this point would be a good idea. I wasn't going to claim regardless of what he said, I just wanted to know what he would say.
I voted Halidon because I think a brand new player is more likely to slip up under pressure if they're scum. Now, there are four players (bouchedufou, BagSquad, Halidon, Maemuki) who haven't played at all on this site before, so I needed to narrow it down a bit more. bouched and Halidon didn't have avatars at the time. Halidon only posted "/in" in the queue, while bouched posted "/in for next". Both of these things made him look the most careless of the four, so Halidon got the vote.
Really I just wanted to random vote someone and say "this vote is not random" because I thought that would get some useful reactions, and I like things to get serious as soon as possible. But I thought I'd better make it actually not random, because I wouldn't want people calling me a liar.
bouchedufou wrote:Anyway, what do we do if we don't claim? Apart from making useless and irrelevant posts?
Make useful and relevant posts.
The best way to understand how games get out of being totally random at the start of D1 is probably to look at other games and see how it happened there. Pick a few finished newbie games, read the first few pages, you should start to get the idea.
bouchedufou wrote:And could you please explain why we shouldn't have a no lynch vote?
There are two ways for people to die in this game:
the lynch
the night kill
the lynch has a 22% chance of killing mafia (at the moment).
the night kill has a 0% chance of killing mafia (and always will).
Any time we don't lynch, we are giving up the 22% chance in favour of the 0% chance.
Unvote, Vote: BagSquad
. Based on what everyone has posted so far, he seems most likely to be scum.