How to win as Mafia: Calculated Inaction

[Magister Ludi]

I'm of the opinion town should blather around day one and then a few days out from deadline switch and speed lynch the person with the lowest post count. Do it again day two. By day three mafia won't be lurking. If consistent, over a vast period of time and games mafia will have to become more active or die.

[Magister Ludi]

Yeah, I know. Which is unfortunate. Its hard to bring myself to that mentality in a game also.

[Magister Ludi]

Thats only because town is larger than scum. Most active people aren't scum, most middling people aren't scum, most lurking people aren't scum. Its just, one play style is clearly more anti-town than the others.

[Magister Ludi]

No, but if lurking is 50% more anti-town than any-other play style and scum do it in equal if not more a proportion of the time than any other, lynching from lurkers is the best strategy.

[Magister Ludi]

The point is by lynching lurkers, you force lurkers not to lurk, which forces them to pretend to be more towney, which grows harder as the days roll on by. If you don't lynch lurkers, you're forced to confront them eventually.

Of course the strategy is to kill all the scum. Yet I'd rather be in lylo with the two highest posters in the entire game rather than the two lowest.

[Magister Ludi]

These lurker policy changes unnerve me to no end.

I know you're self referencing here, but on the subject I believe lurker lynches are very good, and beneficial to town in the long run (which we all end up as more often). If the scum (SCUM OF THE EARTH muahahaha... oh god) are more active, and posting things, they are easier to make interactions and be caught.