@plasmid,nice "essay "back there ,u are more suspicious to me now,and please if u can make your posts a bit smaller cz it's better for all of us.
Tuffy ,spy Plasmid,jerry if he doesn't redirect
(Plasmid was right Jerry is a bit non usage for goodies)
Hmm, try to look at that from the baddies' perspective so you understand the implications.
If you make it known on the main thread ahead of time who people are going to "spy" during the night (in this case using Tuffy's role copy as a spy but same idea) the baddies will know that if the person being spied is good and will become a confirmed goodie, there will be one less goodie under suspicion during the next day's lynch votes and more chance that a baddie will be lynched. Because of that, if their thinking caps are on, they have an incentive to NK the person being spied if they're a goodie: that would eliminate the person who would otherwise become a confirmed goodie and avoid narrowing down the number of players who are potential baddies during the lynch vote.
So in general it's probably not good to broadcast who is going to get spied (particulary for the spy-ee). But now that I've made this public knowledge, the spy knows that there would be an advantage to not actually target the player mentioned in the main thread. And baddie behavior changes a bit when all this logic is out in the open because they might start WIFOMing: if they don't NK the proposed spy target, then they can use this logic to say that not getting NKed implies that the proposed target was a baddie.
All that aside, my ability seems reasonably useful so Tuffy can go ahead and role copy me just for the ability if he wants. (At least you know I'm not Jerry.)
Edit: lynched an extraneous comma
Edited by plasmid, 02 October 2011 - 04:24 PM.
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