ooops. Got to keep track.
I'll let it stand for the time being.

So I reread the rules and just realized one thing I hadn't noticed before. After being converted, your win condition changes and now becomes dependent on your new faction. A faction that just aquired a new member.

So should I hope to be converted or not?

If you’re town why would you want to be converted? Your loyalty should be to town and all your efforts should be to help town win. If you are unfortunate and get converted then of course your loyalty will switch to your new faction, but you don’t ever want to be recruited.

You're right of course, I'm just wondering mathematically which would be a better option. Assuming you know for a fact that the scum are going to recruit someone at night. Let's say randomly. Is it mathematically better for you if (a) they hit a scum/hacker and die or (b) they convert you? (Option (c) they convert another townie, is of course the worst for you.)

Incidentally, and joking aside:

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Unofficial Vote Count
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flibbertigibbet- 1 Votes (trentonlf 123)

Books - 1 Votes - (mchack 15/56; Bookwyrm627 34/47; adaliabooks 39/46; Krypsyn 42/49, Hunter65536 108)

puppy - 0 Votes

naked dodos - 1 Votes (Leonard03 107)

books - 1 Votes (ZFR 10/32; Hunter65536 16/108; Krypsyn 28/33; mchack 117)

Hippie - 1 Votes - (Sage103082 22; ZFR 32/62; Krypsyn 33/42; Krypsyn 49/61; trentonlf 72/123; Krypsyn 74/129)

Zany Frog Roaster - 0 Votes (adaliabooks 9/26; Bookwyrm627 12/30; Krypsyn 24/28)

Peacenik - 0 votes (Bookwyrm627 30/34)

3rd Strike - 0 Votes (adaliabooks 87/115; mchack 94/117; Bookwyrm627 127/127)

Master of Ceremonies Hacker - 3 Votes (ZFR 62; Bookwyrm627 127; Krypsyn 129)

Kitty - 0 Votes - (trentonlf 20/72; Bookwyrm627 47/127; adaliabooks 55/65; Krypsyn 61/74)

Livin la vida sleeping - 0 Votes (mchack 56/94; flubbucket 80/97)

Bubbles (i.e. suicide vote) - (dedoporno 98/114)

Other - 1 votes (flubbucket 97)

Not Voting - Hewey, Dewey, Louie

Depends on whether your new faction is about to bite it or not. For example, if you get converted on the same night the last of your (new) teammates is busy being killed by the other faction, it might not be so nice.

Being the conversion that pushes your new teams numbers to parity with town, with the other faction having been eliminated, might be an alright scenario. If you like being alien scum, of course.

This is more a question for a normal cult game, in this game we have some reasonably good counters to conversion (as I've already covered) so playing with the hope of being converted is probably just more likely to get you lynched.

In the last game (which was a more pure cult game) then playing in a way that you may hope to be recruited may be a way to victory, though as trent said you should always play towards your current win condition (not least because if you are playing to help the cult / scum win and don't get converted you lose).

I was actually thinking (though for the above reasons I don't think this applies in this game) last game that the optimal strategy in a cult game is to kill the best players first, before they can be converted and become enemies. That way the cult can only recruit the players more likely to have a noticeable change in playstyle and should be easier to catch.

Agreed on that. Anything else is anti-town - even though you might be increasing your chances for conversion (which isn't putting you that much closer to a win) but at the same time risk getting mislynched while still Town or good-lynched on your first day as a converted player.

@adalia, would you say one player is becoming 3x more unfortunate than the rest? If yes, who would that be - flub, Leonard, Sage or Krypsyn?

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I don't know... Krypsyn is being consistent with what I would expect of him, plus I'm not scum so he can't be ;)
flub I can never get a read on either way, could be town or could be scum I have no idea yet.
Sage and Leonard both aren't contributing as much as I'd like and I'd happily vote either.

But if I were to choose one player to place a serious vote on it would mchack.
Something doesn't feel right with his posting so far. I don't ever remember him being quite this eager to place votes so early, but admittedly it's been quite a while since I've played a game with him. And he might just be bored because of the whole broken finger thing.
Gut says he's scum though.

This made me giggle.

huh?

Some people thought it was trains and passed on them. (That is a Dad joke curiosity of my father)

I'm starting to remember just how terrible this website is on mobile.

old Yogs would be so proud.

This site majorly sucks on mobile, and I use it probably 75-80% if the time :-(