Alright, so I read the thread since ive been gone. Here are my thoughts as of now
The intelligence team is not a direct threat to the town. This should not be considered as no threat, the INT team is going to try to be peacekeepers for as long as humanly possible, adding information primarily to do one of three things
1. clean up some mafia. Less mafia means you have to suck up to less people
2. Save the mafia. Later in the game, the INT team is likely going to try to help the mafia survive if things start heading south for them.
3. generally suck up to everyone, and promote peace and nolynches for all. Really, the no lynch thing will prolly be axed now that we have this drama going on about it, but the smart move for the INT team is to delay this game as long as possible, and later, push votes on people they dont plan to interact with.
This is in stark contrast with the mafia who, as we know, wants to kill us all. The mafia are a direct threat, with direct consequences for their continued life. From this I gotta draw that the mafia are worse than the INT team, and agree a bit in part with www3. Of course, I'm still aware the INT team is a threat to us, we still have to axe them where we can, and they are in no way shape or form another town. Theyre bad for us, but theyre not /as/ bad. I think it is unwise to throw them in the same boat as the mafia, just as it is equally unwise to discount them as a threat.
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Submachine seems like a mildly paranoid town, mostly because hes yelling about people ganging up on him. I dont think hes mafia. not sure if hes INT or town, as being such a center of attention he is very unlikely to be nightkilled by the mafia, and only slightly more likely to be lynched. Either a great INT play, or a natural town play.
www3 Is pretty scum. He makes a partial point about INT, but at the same time, sounds heavily like a INT member, OR a mafia member pretending to be INT.
Linkcat: His posting late in the day was enough to make me think twice about my votes on sub, not because I supported the no lynch, but because I couldn't really support a sub death, as he was looking more and more town. Linkcat has a big INT read for me, as I said above; he fits the peacekeeper very well.
Rob: I'll literally never trust rob, mostly because the meta talk really sways me to distrust him. Its his playstyle, so I can't really fault him, but at the same time it makes reading him legitimately a great challenge.
Ian: Ian threw up some red flags. He posted a throwaway vote on d2d, then railed against the no lynch movement, and gave us the threat of his AFK. It felt more like a bandwagon on the "hate the no lynch train" with rob and JCJ, and less of a legitimate opinion. this isn't enough to really justify anything, just a slight scum read
JCJ: neutral, seems to have genuine feelings on the no lynch discussion. However, his reasoning for sub feels slightly scummy, I agree with him, the invis text is incredibly BM, and really annoying, but that doesn't make sub mafia or INT. Which realistically is the only reason to vote on someone. I think linkcats post on why the no lynch was a good idea sums up my feelings to an extent, that submachine was voted on for being submachine
If you want information from me on specific people, or more specific thoughts in general, go ahead and ask and I'll answer while im on. The above are just the major players in my mind right now, or players i have thought about.
