I don't understand these claims of fakeclaiming being difficult. Von gave the mafia ideas for the vote action and even was so generous as to give unused supers as well. As for the Born ___ start, did you ask for him to review your fakes? He's done that in the past small mafia games, at least.
Nopers, while I actually wrote this as a tip in my strategy guide (lol) I didn't consider it significant enough to ask about. I neutered my jack of all trades role when I claimed it, which von advised me to do but I had already begun doing as well. I meant to neuter zorbees's role as well (another thing that could've fucked us over, that role would be crazy OP on the village inspector in its existing iteration), but I couldn't find a good number before we went ahead with it. We removed a lot of useful stuff that we wanted to keep to ourselves in the process.
As someone who wrote three fakes for this game (two of which only got outed by UncleSam), I did not find false claiming hard at all. We had trouble finding something for Yeti to claim because her secondary was passive and BPV is a joke claim, but the whole billymills thing happened and then it was irrelevant. I was surprised to find out so many of our roles were duplicates, but he gave us a fully safe claim (ability check) if we were audacious enough to use it, and having checked projected village numbers against vote actions, I was pretty sure there were duplicates anyway, so you had to pick what you claimed with that in mind. Nobody ever said you had to claim what was given to you either, although you ran the risk of triple claims there. (We had like four backup claims at some point or something stupid?)
While the Fascists aren't wrong in that we did verify most people through duplicate claims, the main reason we were able to do that with such accuracy was their claims/zorbees's role, and being able to clean so many people because they DIDN'T have counterclaims. The trick is really blending in, I think there would have been less problems if they just went all-in. I think we might've gotten better false claims than the Fascists as well? But hey, suck it up, you guys had every lynch role and three extra people...
Although I agree, I was really concerned about vote actions being used to clean people. If the village got its shit together, while democracy was potentially quite a hindrance, earlygame it serves as a very powerful information source. It could have potentially been cool if some of us had legit vote actions like the neuts, I really enjoyed that part.
I will state that I don't consider giving unused characters generous anymore, I consider it good practice. We were, however, given really good characters, and quite a large number of them.
