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Old 08-08-2005, 06:09 PM   #196
digamma
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: On Lake Harriet
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vince
While at first glance this is a good strategy, we basically give the wolves a free kill this way. Why, you ask? If we don't lynch anyone, what do we learn about today? Nothing. Pros to lynching someone...

1) If we lynch someone, we have a chance (however miniscule) to get a wolf.

2) If we lynch someone, we have an established vote to contribute to voting patterns later in the game.

3) If we lynch someone, we learn what that person's role was.

It's not much, but it's more than nothing. That's why day one sucks -- because you have no option other than lynching someone (at least in my opinion).

If someone can come up with a good reason not to lynch someone, I'd be all for it -- the odds are definitely against us picking a bad guy on day one.

This does make some sense. Of course, now that we're at 4-4-4 (I think I'm counting correctly), someone who breaks a tie the wrong way is going to be an immediate lynching target.
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