Tax Fraud

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Setup where Tax Collector wants to convert everyone to make town and mafia reveal as each other upon death

### Town Roles

Doctor, Profiler, Psychiatrist, Surveyor, Tapioca (×5)

### Non-Default Settings

Nightstart (No Kill Night 1), Punish Initiators

## Description

Tapioca reveals as Mafia upon death and Con Man reveals as Villager. However, when visited by the Tax Collector, the two roles will reveal as the opposite role, leading to confusion and uncertainty. This leads to a scenario where role reveal is essentially off, as town never truly knows the role or even alignment of any dead player.

Tax Collector not only messes with death flips here, but also affects how the investigative, Profiler, receives results. Early on in the game, the Profiler's checks are near perfect. However, later on in the game, once many players are taxed, the checks may start to become near useless. This leads to Tax Collector being a key role in the setup, who can make or break the game for either alignment.

## Optimal play

No player but the Tax Collector knows the true alignment of any dead player. The interaction of Tapioca and Con Man revealing as each other upon death when taxed weakens Profiler, and as such makes Surveyor useful.

Due to the existence of both Doctor and Psychiatrist, Follow the Profiler is possible and highly recommended in this setup, wherein the Profiler should out day 1 to lead town to ensure that they will be protected from both the mafia's night kill and the Tax Collector's conversion.

All players should remember what players claim, when they die, and if they claimed taxed so that they don't just look at the side of their screen and say "Oh, Player A died as Villager so they were Con Man, and player B got condemned as Mafia so they're a Tapioca."

### Town

Let the Profiler lead. Ensure to not mindlessly sheep them, however; ensure to contribute to the game. However, never vote against your confirmeds in MYLO. If multiple Profilers claim day 1, it is best to sort out the claims before MYLO where you are unable to vote one and then the other if you miscondemn the real Profiler. However, you can avoid voting either claim until a bit later to get information out of each of them. Because Con Man dies as villager, the fake Profiler may claim converted. This is where Surveyor comes into play, to sort out the claims.

A strategy for dealing with Tax Collector is to enforce that everyone claims when they have been converted. This allows the Tax Collector to slowly be outted by process of elimination, and gets info out of flips.

#### Doctor

As soon as the Profiler outs, protect them for the entire game. It's that simple. Protecting someone else is risky and is inadvisable.

#### Profiler

Out immediately on day 1. At the beginning of the game, you should be checking to see if players are Con Man or not. If you get a check that turns out to be Con Man, out it. Otherwise, say you found a non-Con Man. Later on in the game, where checks become less reliable, you can potentially check for Tax Collector if it is still alive, the only "true" check, or you can check power role claims for what they claim to see if they are legit. In most setups, the Profiler wants to check for the basic role, which here is Tapioca. However, because all the mafia are the same role here, checking for them is a good idea, as rather than simply being able to confirm players as town, you can divide them between mafia and not mafia, which is usually more useful.

#### Psychiatrist

As soon as the Profiler outs, protect them for the entire game. It's that simple. Protecting someone else is risky and is inadvisable.

#### Surveyor

Use whenever you think is a good idea to use to give town information about which power roles are dead and which are alive, or what roles have been converted so far. You should out on the day after the night that you choose to use your power with the information you have. This will potentially allow you to catch a fakeclaiming mafia, or a mafia member who was taxed.

#### Tapioca

The basic role of the setup. If taxed, out that you were taxed immediately so that town knows you will appear as Villager on death.

### Scum

Optimally, the Tax Collector would like to soft in such a way that the mafia understands who they are and as such will not accidentally nightkill them, but that town does not catch the soft and doesn't vote the Tax Collector out. The mafia members should try their best to kill power role reads, especially Doctor, so that they can become able to kill the Profiler. Killing Psychiatrist is also helpful, as it allows the Tax Collector to prevent the Profiler from receiving any more checks.

#### Con Man

Attempt to kill the power roles. Doctor is the most important to kill while Profiler is alive, followed by Psychiatrist and then Surveyor. Try your best to avoid killing Tax Collector.

If taxed, don't claim taxed. Let the Tax Collector see that they taxed a mafia member and claim taxed. If you claim taxed, town will know that you were a mafia member when you die.

It is best not to counter claim the Doctor if they out; it's better to kill them so you can safely kill the Profiler the next night. Counter claiming Psychiatrist is fine. You can attempt to counter claim Surveyor, but you must correctly give a list of roles in alphabetical order, and you must guess the living power roles correctly. If you don't, one of them could out, if they wanted, and out you as mafia.

Purposely killing the Tax Collector when you can joint win with them, causing you to win and them to lose, is heavily frowned upon and should not be done.

#### Tax Collector

Because you only win if alive, leave the bold plays to the mafia members. Avoid counter claiming power roles unless successfully doing so would win the game for you and the mafia.

Trying to predicting who will die each night and taxing them is a decent strategy, as it will make it so that no one knows what role they were when they die. This has the potential to allow a mafia member to claim an unknowingly dead power role and go un-counter claimed.

Keep track of who you tax and what alignment they are. If you tax a mafia member, they will likely not claim taxed so you can claim taxed for them so that no one suspect that you are the Tax Collector. Of course, you cannot do this multiple times per game, so the second time you tax a mafia member it is likely that no one will claim taxed. **Never** out your role or any information you have about player's alignments to the town, as you want town to *lose*.

When you + the number of mafia > than the number of town, out so the mafia don't accidentally vote for you. You can then all to proceed to vote a town player out to win the game. Alternatively, if town attempts to counter claim mafia to confuse you, you can simply vote no one with the mafia and they can kill someone else, causing you all to still win.

## Trivia

* Older version of the setup used Cop instead of Profiler. Setup seemed to be too scumsided, which is why the change occured.
	+ The setup was also previously nightstart before the addition of the no nightkill n1 setting, and had 6 Tapiocas rather than only 5.
* Setup has some asymmetry in regards to Tapioca appearing as Miller if killed at night and not Mafia, wherein Con Man always reveals as Villager, even if killed at night. As such, one can distinguish between a Tapioca and a converted Mafia afking out, but not between a converted town and a Con Man.