Originally Posted by Thoth on 6/30/2026 at 8:19 PM (post #22)
Originally Posted by whiteflame on 6/30/2026 at 7:37 PM (post #18)
Seems like a lot of people are getting onboard with claiming early, though I can't say I understand the reasoning here. Yes, characters are effectively randomized, but everyone would have submitted a set of 3 characters for Kohai to choose from. Scum will either have characters that don't obviously link to scummy roles or will just claim one of the other two characters they submitted. Just seems like it doesn't matter, but maybe that's your point. We have 5 claims out now, I'll likely give mine tonight, I just want to understand the thinking here.
Normally, the argument for mass-character claiming early is that it makes it harder for scum to fake-claim later, and the argument against it is that the more claims are public, the easier it is for scum to narrow down who is who, making it easier for them to guess who has which role or which characters are likely to be safe fake-claims. Since alignments are randomized, those arguments against it don't really apply, so all that claiming our characters will do is narrow the pool of roles that scum can concoct reasonable justifications for. That is, unless you think scum are going to be really, really good at modpsyching what roles Kohai gave to each character.
Or it gives them an idea of what role you are. This is stupid and we should not continue with this. If yall wanna soft claim, that’s fine. In fact that’s the optimal strat