Poyzin
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What? This is definitely just different philosophies on mafia, but town SHOULD self-preserve? Because if you are lynched than you KNOW a mafia isn't lynched.
The town wins when the mafia are eliminated. Don't get me wrong, I want to stick around just as much as the rest of you, but the end result that we as town are trying to reach is where all of the mafia are eliminated. There are very few circumstances when lynching a townsperson is a good thing. I don't want to lynch town, but there is a chance that it could happen.
It's to this point that I overgeneralized. Vanilla Townies shouldn't self-preserve; rather, they should faction-preserve. Unless they are on-the-money with all of their reads, to which point it's impossible to tell until the first flip, there is no reason why a VT is more valuable than anybody else in the town. Sure, it makes sense for town PRs to self-preserve, as it gives them more opportunities to get information. However, VTs should not try to preserve themSELVES, but instead preserve town, because they still win as long as the mafia are lynched in the long-run.
And no, I'm not saying that mislynches are good. I'm just saying that VTs have no reason to plea "don't lynch me", because they are, dare I say, "expendable" (to a point), whereas the mafia and town PRs are not.