I agree that being active in the game topic is important, don´t take me wrong, and I understand the logic behind voting for the inactive too.Jd- wrote:Basically, the major problem that arises from civilians being quiet and inactive is that they create hiding place for the Spies. The Spies can always hide within those inactive ranks, while the active civilians are forced to reason it out amongst themselves. By all civilian teams being active, we diminish if not eliminate that hiding place and force them out into the open one way or the other. It's not perfect, but it's at least a starting point, wouldn't you say so?Jellitto wrote:Well, sorry for being quiet but I really haven´t had anything to say and apparently it is the same for Kain too.
Your post just reminds me of round 2. At day 2 I didn´t post anything and the Spy, Raiden, accidentally didn´t kill anyone. So at day 3 Fujiwara nominated and voted me because I had been inactive in the topic on the same day when no one died. In the end I was just a civilian though.
That is why I was a bit irritated when I read your earlier post where you said something similiar about us being inactive but we really should post more I think.
It´s not impossible for the Spy not to kill anyone because of inactivity of course, but me not posting isn´t because of lack of time, but lack of ideas.
I'd also like to note that the Day 2 fiasco of last time was a pretty special case and wasn't really the fault of any one player. We had to go with what information we had at the time, so that's just how it shook out.
I think the way most players reason, at least in these first three rounds, is that inactive civilians make it a lot harder to effectively proceed and thus why they are so often the first ones nominated for vote discussions. In essence: An active civilian dying/being arrested is a lot more detrimental to the civilian effort than an inactive one dying/being arrested. Imagine if the active civilians were all the first ones to die/be arrested. The game would just be the Spies picking people off while the inactive civilians cast random and likely ineffective votes until the Spy team nearly inevitably gets away on account of never really being in any real danger.
The only real restriction on orders is that they must be post-related. Like, you can't order them to change signatures or something like that, but if it's anything fair and reasonable relative to posts within the game topic--including not posting--it should be legal.Jellitto wrote:That is completely something I haven´t even thought about, I always thought that the Informants have to identify themselves by posting something that the order said, not by not posting. So, not posting is a possibility too? Seemingly it isn´t against the rules?
And I see, not posting could be an order too. Thought so after reading the rules once more, but wanted to be sure.
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