2010-11-19, 12:37 PM
MasPan Wrote:[color="#cc8899"]However, this also runs into WIFOM territory - constantly provoking large arguments lets the mafia hide in the crowd and leads to large 50/50 style arguments. Those are rarely useful until it's too late to learn anything from them.
Keep in mind who you're playing with - Southperry mafia is full of bandwagon voting in its history. What you're doing isn't revealing anything - people like you and I almost always vote while people like Synthesist almost never do. Regardless of the situation, that usually doesn't change. In essence you end up forcing people to vote for one of the majority cases if they can't dissuade people. Turning around and using that as evidence is absurd.[/COLOR]
Eh I disagree as far as large 50/50 splits being useless. True they're not always useful immediately, but later on in the game, they can sometimes tip the balance as far as figuring out who is a mafian or not. And splitting 50/50 is still better than a pure majority with everyone bandwagoning as we've seen with Synthesist before. Generally speaking, the only times voting doesn't help is when everyone votes for a different person and there is no clear majority of any kind. And even that has it's uses, but as you said, that doesn't happen much in SP games. Anyway, this is all getting into meta game talk, so I think I'll try to stop here, but I still feel that anything that gets people to vote isn't a bad thing, and the lack of aggressive voting has hurt the town in early games before as no one wants to take the risk and get things started.