Happymeal wrote:Harb wrote:sjg11 wrote:Would a mass reveal be a particularly strong town opportunity in this game? I imagine it would be the same trade-off hat you would get with a normal role reveal, namely that you lose your most powerful roles in return for gaining a little bit more information about stuff.
I'm not sure that focusing on a mass reveal would have been in ZZ's mind when designing the game... simply because I don't think that a mass role reveal is a particularly good strategy for us.
Why wouldn't it be? We would actually get more information than normal. Scum either reveal roles truthfully and then are forced into pro-town uses of their roles or lie and are found out as powers don't play out as expected. Power roles are revealed and town can govern prioritizing which roles get protected. Any defection from plan or irregularity ends up revealed relatively quickly, producing yet more information. Instead of single claimants, EVERY role has a giver/receiver check. Harb says he gave Role A to sjg, SJG confirms he received results indicating he was Role A. If there's no way to screw around with ordering that system, it seems like town produces a lot of information pretty quickly.
Wait, how do we even know if scum were given roles? Do you think that scum having roles is such a guarantee that we should actually follow through with this?
I mean, if the scum WEREN'T given roles, this would be an awesome plan for us. We'd have them nailed on D2, when whatever they claimed as cover didn't come true. Not to mention, they wouldn't be able to safely claim anything without the possibility of being counterclaimed.