you left out option three - they can present an alternate wagon and push that hard enough to steal votes from the wagon on their buddy. and thus i present this bullshit mafiassk wagon, which has singlehandedly resulted in neither image or nuwen being anywhere near a lynch. grats on almost getting away with it xyl, but i'm back now.Xylthixlm wrote:Whenever a wagon forms on a scum, their buddies have a choice between what I think of as "positional advantage" and "material advantage". The other scum can defend or stay off the wagon, thus increasing the chance that their buddy survives (preserving material advantage) in return for looking scummier (losing positional advantage); or they can bus their buddy, making him easier to lynch (losing material advantage) but making themselves look more town (gaining positional advantage). A simple result from elementary game theory says that in situations like that, the town's best play is to make that decision as close as possible for the scum.Nuwen wrote:We also get your pretty wagon to analyze. I'm not going to continue speculating where scum votes on MafiaSSK might lie, lest I create a nasty WIFOM situation that'll be useless for real scumhunting later on.
A similar effect happens with town wagons, except there the scum choose which sort of advantage to gain, rather than which sort to lose.
unvote, vote: image
