Alright, here's my reasoning behind vig claiming. Incoming wall of text. Possibly gamebreaking.
Now, ideally if a serial killer or mafia get bandwagoned to the point of having to claim, they'll most likely claim Vig, at least in the SK's case. Cause then they can prove their vigness by shooting a chosen target or whatever.
Now let's say we have vigs claim early. This is assuming everyone's reads on each other are exactly the same.
Situation 1 - Two Vigs Claim
These two vigs would then be confirmed town, because there have to be two. Docs would be on them because they are the only confirmed town. Now, we could split all the players in two groups and have one group protect on vig and the other group the other vig, but this would be a waste of doctors. We could just assign players to protect the vigs, random players. Even if the mafia are assigned to protect the vig, they can't kill him because it'll out the guy as mafia. If a serial killer is assigned, he's the only one who knows, and killing the vig will get him lynched. And if it's a real doctor, they're protected. So essentially mafia can only kill vig if there's that small chance that the serial killer is the one assigned to protect, and I don't know why they'd take that risk anyway. With the two people protecting the vigs, everyone else could be on random.
Situation 2 - Three Vigs Claim
This of course means either a mafia or serial killer is claiming vig, most likely the latter. This one I'm not as sure as how to approach, because the SK is bulletproof. We could keep the SK around till it's neccessary to lynch him, or if one vig dies we could lynch between ccs. Unfortunately not really sure how to approach this one. It could be also be approached the same as below, but it doesn't work as well I don't think.
Situation 3 - Four Vigs Claim
This one I know how to approach. Have all the vigs shoot each other, and docs no protect. Why? Because then, most likely, both vigs will die leaving the two ccs, who will be confirmed guilties. Now, if we ML'd a doc d1(The most likely scenario), and the vigs all shot each other and the vigs died, we'd be left with 9 people, 5 docs, 3 mafia, and 1 serial killer. We obviously lynch the sk or mafia this day, and also create a doc train. The only possible role left is doc, so if anyone dies that shows they didn't doc and they are maf. Ideally the maf will be forced to NK and the SK will kill someone random that made succeed or not. Now we continue doc training and it essentially becomes a nightless.
P-Edit: I didn't take into account that mafia could NK, possibly leaving a vig alive. Hm. We could still lynch between the vig ccs, cause there's still mafia/sk in there.
Situation 4 - No Vigs Claim
Vigs shoot whomever they want at night, and the game is played as intended.
I think it could be considered, but it's risky and I feel like there's a factor I'm forgetting. But essentially if the vigs die, we can proceed to doc train which will force the mafia to NK. If the vigs are the only ones who claim, we have confirmed clears.
Thoughts? Flaws?
@Mod: Quick question, it says doctor protects person from a "single" night kill. Does this mean that if two people shoot the same person, and they are docced, the kill will still go through?
And in regards to my thoughts on the game so far, I don't think anything really significant has happened to look upon. RVS always seems useless to me.
Oh, and hi Maru.
And experience wise, I played a ton of games at EpicMafia prior to Mafiascum. Here I've completed 4 games, 3 of which I screwed up in terribly. I've played once in real life, but when people don't care or want to think about the game, it really sucks.
