In post 439, Thor665 wrote: In post 437, Creature wrote:Because I don't like keeping my vote on a single person, it looks like no single progress is made.
You would only keep your vote on one person if your top scumread never changes - all I'm asking is how voting the person you're asking a question of changes anything to make you more able to get accurate information from the question.
There's nothing that forces you to not question people you're not voting - for instance, I'm not voting you, yet I'm being able to ask you questions to try to understand you. Would it really help me to be voting you right now during this process? I don't see it. I've also had a vote on Loop for quite some time now - does that weaken my vote somehow?
Repeating these since you either missed them or are intentionally avoiding answering.
If intentional - could you mention that so I don't have to keep repeating them?
In post 444, Loopdan wrote:@Thor-- IC question: I've read games where players vote no lynch. In what situations is this a good strategy for town in a newbie game?
This is a slightly contentious question for me, as my answer is 'basically never' but that's an answer lots of people wouldn't agree with, so let me just describe the *theory* behind no lynching.
The point is to get scum to kill someone who might be scum, so you can go 'aha, that person was town!' and help in picking scum the next phase.
A No Lynch is conceptually the smart move to make when the following two points are *both* true;
1. You are in mylo (as in, if you mislynch, scum wins, and yet you can no lynch and scum won't win)
2. You literally see nobody that scum could kill (besides yourself I suppose) that you think wouldn't narrow down your odds of picking scum correctly the next phase. So, if there's a confirmed town - never no lynch. if you have a rock solid town read, don't no lynch. If you, yourself, are the strongest town read for everyone else - don't no lynch.
(3. Sometimes it also makes sense in certain PR combos/situations - like only one scum alive, a JKer living, and a no kill the night before from scum for some reason, or maybe a Doc and Cop alive,a nd a dead RBer - special setups like that)
The reason I often say "basically never" is because I think a lot of players are trained/conditioned/et al to only pat attention to #1 and to not think about #2 at all.
So I think it's on you to examine my stated #2 and decide for yourself how valid that is as part of the strategy.
In post 444, Loopdan wrote:Non-IC question: If you can't have a Loopdan lynch, who is your next option at this point?
Creature.