Replacement Rule Clarification (10/31/2023):
The decision to replace out should be based solely on your inability to play the game you are replacing out of.
Do not replace out based on your alignment or create a pattern of replacing out as a certain alignment. This creates an out-of-game influence and could be considered a trust tell. If you find that you are creating such a pattern with your decisions to replace out, even if unintentionally (e.g. you dislike playing a certain alignment and find it hard to play to wincon), it is your responsibility to stop joining games until you can correct it.
Do not replace out of a game in order to gain a mafia-related advantage, whether the advantage is in that game, in any other game, or not specific to a game. Examples of situations that qualify as gaining a mafia-related advantage include:
- Replacing out so that others in the game are more likely to think your slot is town-aligned
- Replacing out when you think you will lose a game so that it does not count as a loss for your record
- Replacing out of one game so that you can learn another player's alignment to gain an advantage in another game you are playing with them