Talk:Town of Salem Rules/@comment-25147283-20150917092956/@comment-25876622-20150924180510

It's gamethrowing if you deliberately try not to win. The intention matters more than the action, since a big part of the game is psychology. Whether you have a team or not has only indirect relation to this.


 * SK not killing anyone (until endgame, at least): Valid strategy because it will protect you from Lookouts. Valid strategy if nobody is aware of your existence, e.g. if you are the Random Neutral or even an Any. Terrible strategy because it gives Town Investigatives, roleblockers, Consiglieres and Mafia Killers more time to find, reveal and lynch you. Gamethrowing as soon as it becomes clear there are no Lookouts and people are aware of the existence of a [second] SK.


 * Exe cooperating with their target: Valid strategy if you ask the Town you are helping to win to lynch your target before the game ends, therefore fulfilling your win condition. Gamethrowing if you are not attempting to lynch your target at all.

There is no "the end justifies the means" here, Thefado96 has won at the end because his target asked to be lynch. I haven't watched the video yet, so feel free to correct me here: I assume his target asking to be lynched was not due to him knowing he was Thefado96's target, but because he threw the game, knew that his chances of winning were almost zero, or was generally tired of bad teammates.

So the question is @Thefado96: Was your plan all along for the target to ask to be lynched, thereby making you win? If yes, it was a valid (yet in my opinion very unreliable) strategy. If not, I consider this gamethrowing.