Blackmail not an effective means of persuasion for me.
If you have a cultural bias against inactive players and/or often vote based on how others are voting, I'm probably going to look like a strange cat to you.
I'm a talkative player who has gotten over policy lynches of inactive players a long time ago and I consider it to be poor. Most of the time it is an innocent, probably greater than random, not less than. Better ways to handle the slot in a game with powers anyway.
Sometimes the lynch here is a wolf. If so, it's probably not going to result in another wolf lynch the next day, and it will be very tough to read for who their partner is since they interacted very little.
I have plenty of players here reading me scum if Eli flips wolf, that's step one in what will probably be a nice line of mislynches, because you started with the wolf that is the hardest to read for partners.
Lynching Magorian would have blown this game to itty bitty bits if he's a wolf. Lynching ME would have blown this game to pieces if I were a wolf, which I am not.
The order of operations matter. One wolf is worth far more dead than another, even if they have the same role, because of how it impacts people's reads of the game.
This is my outsider perspective and it comes from a different cultural mindset. Maybe your meta is superior for your group of players, thus, your meta is better for your meta, to be intentionally redundant.
But I would frown on village if they generated this much potential spew on several players and then specifically went for the one that generated the least amount of information regardless of flip.
Also, if the meta here is that wolves play inactive when they're not, ewww. I'll let them have such a win, and just not play with them very much after that. That's downright unsporting and hella boring.
I tried that once. I had a good RL reason to not be active, and when I was online, I couldn't break my lurking or else it would draw suspicion. And it was boring as all hell. And I frown greatly on such a strategy.
First wolves hide by being inactive, then village powers do to avoid the murder, then villagers do to try to give the village powers cover.
And then the game is insufferably boring.
I'd rather play with active players I'm not working well with who don't get along with me very well, than play against inactive player slots who aren't actually inactive.
It's a social game.
SOCIAL game.
Socialize. Like, Magorian is a wolf 90 percent of the time here, and a villager I suck at reading 10 percent of the time, but he's always, always, always someone I have enjoyed playing with, 100 percent of the time.
Eli might have RL reasons not to play. If he doesn't, he's someone I enjoyed playing with zero percent of the time this game.
And I mean that, even if I were his wolf partner, it obviously doesn't spare you from the lynch, and would have made you a useless partner of mine if I were a wolf. I'm not, so I can say this freely. It's not likely going to impact the half of the game that is scum reading me incorrectly anyway, so I can be quite liberal in my condemnation of that strategy as a chosen strategy if you're a wolf, Eli.
If you are a village power and did it deliberately, just as bad, and I would be seriously disappointed in both you and my village.
If you are a normal villager and did it deliberately, you basically signed up and ignored the game. And drew suspicion. And didn't help find a wolf. How is that playing the game?
There is no scenario where doing this deliberately is good for the game, or my opinion of you as a player. Hope your RL turns around soon and that your absence isnt the result of anything serious. Also this is just a game so dont take these comments too much to heart even if you did choose to be inactive on purpose.
Just disappointed and frustrated with my village right now, and furthermore, I feel the next day is going to be a pizza lynch, and all the folks I've accused who are wolves are going to skate this game.
That will frustrate me, but it's part of the game, so I'm not going to take it personally.
Maximand lynch is never happening this game, that much is clear. If he's a wolf you've lost, and lost big time, because he was that obviously a wolf.
So, Sootshade tomorrow. Pharaoh is the only person who made a believable case that someone was a wolf today. I scold myself this much in that I should have kept my vote there and been more of a team player and less of a glory hunter.
That was MY mistake this round.
Also misread this village. I felt your priorities were more in sync with my own. Need to re-evaluate.