It's obviously good to get kills during the day phases, but a mislynch will be much worse for the town than not lynching anyone. I'm always suspicious of people that try to get a kill in before we have any real evidence to prove accusations.

It's with deepest regret that I choose to

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Right now I'm at school so I can't really go into depth but  if we were to lynch someone today then it would give us a lot more info to go on tomorrow. If we lynch a townie then we can see who really pushed it and who kind of held back. This would also give the cop and doctor more info to go on with their night actions. 

And by the 1 mafia to every 4 townies rule we have [slightly] higher then 20% chance in hitting scum. 

We simply hit the person who is lurking/disrupting/ being the least helpful in the town 

Lies and propaganda! 

Tbh, 20% odds don't sound good to me.

With all due respect, I think nordlead is greatly overestimating the importance of actually having a body at our feet as we go into Night 1. 

The town definitely needs to have real conversation, and that does mean provoking responses out of people and trying to lynch people.  If someone actually gets lynched in that process, fine; but if we do enough of that and they all get out from under it, that's fine too.  The important part of the Day 1 lynch process is the conversation, not the corpse. 

It's been a long time since nordlead played, but I vaguely think that's consistent with his earlier stance, so no FoS. 

I think I will FoS GoW_3, though.  He seems very aggressive this game, more so than I recall from past games. 

It won't be of much use without the town following the mislynch. Random voting doesn't help if the town aren't lured into bandwagoning. 

But hey, you're the dude who doesn't wanna lynch people on day 2, let alone 1.

Why thank you  

This is exactly the type of (to put it nicely) negativity I'm talking about. A mislynch is much worse than not lynching anyone, yeah. But a successful lynch is but better than a no lynch.

I'm trying to get into this game with a positive attitude of "We can lynch scum on day 1". That didn't mean I wanted to lynch someone immediately. Its far too early for that....but a vote isn't permanent you know. You can change it any time you wish.

It wouldn't sound good....for the mafia.

Look, ignoring the breakdown of players - whoever we lynch is either scum or town. There is always a chance of a mislynch.

But you gotta see what I'm seeing here. One mislynch isn't gonna make us lose the game. So what if we do it on day one ? How is a day one mislynch any different from a mislynch on day 2 ? or day 3 ? 

The result is always one less townie.

But a successful lynch on day one is also possible, and will get us off to an absolute screamer. 

But even with lynching a townie it will be of great advantage to the town. The information that we receive going into day two is hugely important. And getting rid of a troublemaker is nice too :) 

The difference between a mislynch on Day One and a mislynch on Day Two is that the information we can get out of a Day Two mislynch is more valuable than the one from a Day One mislynch.

If we assume a Day One with a good amount of conversation, a night kill then a mislynch on Day Two, the analysis of the motivations of the people who voted for and against the lynch should result in some important leads for us to go on for Day Three.

And again... it's >20%