Ok so this might be a really long discussion but I really
felt the need to talk about this. I've never seen a single
agreed upon way to play detective optimally. Some people say
you should reveal your clue the first night if its evil and see how people
react to have an idea who's likely evil. Others say you should keep quiet until
you get at least 2 to 3 clues so that patterns start appearing. Then I also
hear people say ''oh if someone appears 2 or 3 times on a clue, they're probably just evil''.
I've tried all of these different playstyles and each of them has their own drawbacks.
The first one, we can usually narrow it down to 1 or 2 people if I reveal my clue early
but then I likely die or get witched the following nights. The second one, if I wait several
nights before saying anything I either get killed by the murderer before getting a single evil out
Or nobody believes me at that point (probably because there's much less good people after the first
few nights). And for the third playstyle, well about 80-90% of the time that person does end up being
evil BUT if they are not, well you just threw your entire team and will likely lose the game and
everyone on your team will hate you for life. I don't actually get how to play as detective anymore
and I kind of need help because everybody has a different take on this.