Well if town is gonna lynch me anyway it doesn't matter if I claim, they'll see my full PM the next day.
Mafia is just as much a social game as it is an investigative one. You attract more flies with honey than vinegar. Look at AR, he is someone that most people dis-agree with in general based on his daily behavior on the site, and he's one of the most widely town read people in the game right now. Why? He complied. Dreamer isn't even usually considered a good claim! The behavior you are emulating right now is behavior I would have expected from AR, the throwing a fit, causing a tantrum about not getting his way etc. In fact I came into this game fully prepared to just outright lynch him assuming he was going to pull those shenanigans. You were the last person I expected to act this way.
And then killed at night w/ the power role. But if I always refuse to claim I won't always get lynched for it and can use the power role.
Oh you will, mark my words. That or we are gonna have some really stand still games where at least two players are just throwing, because I will match your energy in an instant and ruin this game for you and everyone in it until you realize the folly of this. And I will actively encourage and petition everyone else to do so as well. You aren't the first special snowflake to try this sh1t.
Why would I want to help the town when I'm scum?
Ah so you admit this strategy mostly helps scum thanks for that.
Mikal has literally said he uses the same strategy and apparently wins a lot with it. So it's not anti-town to use except when I'm scum, in which case I want the town to lose.
Mikal is lying. Anytime he has tried to do sh1t like this its backfired and resulted in his lynch and often times his teams loss. Theres a reason he quit playing for a few years. He talks like this to to bluff, but it almost always ruins the game for everyone else involved, even when he's done it in live games. Mikal talks big, but the last few games hes played here have been different, and thats because he DID learn the hard way. Go and check his past games under his "elminster" account. He was frequently lynched dp1 for doing this type of sh1t, and eventually he just quit. I say this and it sounds harsh, but mikal is actually a very good friend of mine, despite all this. I don't encourage this behavior from him either.