Mahaloth’s endorsement of the proposed team should throw up red flags right? RIGHT?
If they are playing under the assumption that the first mission had two spies on it, then having two players from that mission supporting the current mission is a bad thing, right?
Unless they’re supporting it in order to look more Townie.
On thinking about it more, I think I know why Town is in such an information hole. It’s not because they were too quick to accept the first team, like HookerChemical claims; it’s because they’ve been too quick to reject teams without considering them. In round 1, they rejected four teams without even finding out who those teams were, the teams that would have been proposed by the next four leaders. Nor is Hooker off the hook: In fact, she’s even worse. Most players at least considered one team, but she considered zero.
I think what Town should have done was to demand proposed teams from all of the round’s prospective leaders, and then had everyone rank their preferences publicly, before the first team was ever officially submitted. Each player should then accept a team if and only if that player considers it the best team available among those remaining. A leader could of course actually submit a different team proposal than what they said they would, but they could then be held accountable for their actions. This way, there’d still be a chance that the first team would get accepted, meaning that the first vote wouldn’t be meaningless like HookerChemical wanted, but even if the first team were accepted, you’d still know what everyone thought (or at least, claimed to think, but lying is risky) of the others.
That’s an interesting point of view and I think it would be interesting to see how that would play out, but my understanding of the game is that seeing who accepts and rejects each team is the data gleaned from each vote. While everyone rejecting a team says little, it sets up the dynamic for future votes. Also HookerChemical is used to playing the face-to-face version of the game. Having five teams proposed at once might work on a board where each one could be written down for reference, but in a real life game, that would be quite difficult to manage.