Hi everybody! Discussion Day x is the page where the general public forum conversation occurs on Day x. Please start new threads wherever appropriate. I will be making a post on general strategy soon (and Alex Arkhipov probably will as well) but in the mean time, I'd recommend that you look at our posts in the Basic Strategy thread of the IAP 2012 game.
A couple points though that cannot wait:
1.
Read the rules. The rules are several pages long, but you should read them thoroughly. You can't play well if you don't know the rules.
2. If you are a power role, do not go around telling people your role! There are definitely circumstances when you want to confide with someone(s) but never, ever do it arbitrarily. If you have a question about how your role works, ask Jacobi.
3. Keep up on the forum; participate in the discussions on and off the forum
4. If you are investigator, use your power every single day.
5. More to follow
Also, I want to be mayor. The mayor is a much stronger and town-useful role than in previous games; we definitely want to have a mayor. I've left a petition in black hole kitchen.
Obviously, I can't expect you to trust me right now, though I hope I'll quickly get the town's trust; I'm a relatively bad liar and tend to talk enough in this game that if I were scum, I would slip up. However, you don't need to trust me to elect me mayor. If I were mafia, I couldn't sabotage the town as mayor without being really obvious, at least not before close to the end of the game. And we want the mayor's abilities to be available to the town.
With that said, if someone else, preferably an experienced player, wants to be mayor, that might be okay. The most important thing is that we
have a mayor.
So sign my petition in Black Hole kitchen! I'll try to get it circulating around more later today.