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Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
...The key is to get the end result right, not to out-argue the other players. There will always be more good ideas produced by others than you will produce yourself. These need to be identified and embraced.

Above all, I think the town needs to remember that it a team effort working on a large puzzle. No single theory is best, though some are stronger than others. Town efforts seem to work when the totality of the system comes together to produce a mosaic of information from which the various analysis styles can work in harmony. If done properly, the mafia will pop up in the sights of more than one of these styles of analysis. When this convergence occurs, the probability of a good lynch skyrockets. For this reason, townie cooperation and participation is the key to victory, even amongst the dead. The more people who are legitimately trying to analyze the game and locate the mafia, the more likely the town will win. It is easier for the mafia to win when there are only a couple dominant voices because it is easy to assume that role and intentionally lead the town astray. It is far harder for the mafia to win when there are a multitude of strong town voices, none of which disappear after death.
The entire thing was a good read, TinCow, but from this point on in your post, I felt as though I was in the presence of a professor. Will remember these lessons here very much.

sensei TinCow