Aelyn:
If your experiments were successful, you would have innocently gained a high chip total. And I don’t see how your most recent experiment differed from any previous doubleposting. You didn’t reveal that your first experiment was even deliberate until I questioned you about it. The desire to find out “rapidly” makes me think that *you* wanted to be the one to do the experimenting and thus pad your chipcount; had you been patient, it might have been revealed naturally and you would have lost your chance. Moreover, I still don’t see any advantage for innocents to have a high chip total, because it’s useless for scum to all-in. Perhaps there’s another mechanic involving chips, but I can’t think of anything obvious and I don’t feel like positing one. So, with the best use of chips I can see being to allow scum to protect themselves,
Thesp:
I had noted that Maximus’s [14-15] doublepost earned 2 chips, while Aelyn’s [20-21] earned 1. I was trying to find out why the chip totals weren’t matching the postcounts. I thought there might be a role that imposed a chip restriction or bonus or something, or it might be inherent to a role. In any case, the mod’s explanation seems to have cleared it up.
Just to clarify- I think the only details about roles which should be revealed are those which would be apparent from chipcounts (or votecounts or posting habits, as it happens). In other words, stuff the town would be figuring out soon enough anyhow.
(And compare how I investigated this question to Aelyn’s method...)
kristocker:
I was thinking that the chip mechanic might naturally guard against lurking?
Thok:
Not only do I think it makes sense for Iammars to reveal his postrestriction immediately, but I think it would have been quite suspicious had he revealed it later. Why do you not think Iammars could be the big blind?
And if there is a second blind with a similar mechanic, I’m not sure why they would not have come forward already.