If we're going to hypocop, then let's do it right, ditto any hypodoc or hyporole stuff, which I am against doing.

If we hypocop, then let me remind everyone that it is the result not the target that must be selected randomly. On day 2 the most likely investigatees will tend to be higher profile players and anyone who acted even a tad suspiciously. Thereafter it will tend to always be anyone who acted suspiciously. No one picks their target for a role action out of a hat. Consider the most probable scenario from last night, the doc decided to protect a player most likely to be assassinated, i.e. a big threat, the DFs picked a person to kill who would be a big threat, it's actually very probable for them to pick the same person, if it wasn't then the doc role would basically be a tiny upgrade on a vanilla. If you make a list of the five most dangerous players, odds are your list will be very similiar to most of the others' lists. Select your hypocop target off that list, because those are the people the cop most likely investigated, the doc most likely docced, etc. Include anyone who raised a flag yeserday for hypocop. Think about who you would have investigated, and select that person, you don't need to randomize your target, just the result. For that result, assume the DFs are around 1 in 3 of the remaining 14 players who aren't you. If you have a die lying around, 1-4 pips, innocent, 5 or 6, guilty. If you have a coin, and no dice, just make a list of four people, and get two different denomination coins, i.e. nickel and a penny. NHPH (Nickel Heads, penny heads) equals 1, (NHPT) penny tails is 2, NTPH 3, and NTPT (both tails) is 4.

And say guilty or innocent, it may well be the cop is actually getting a result of crew or imperial, or not imperial, etc, but with the now slim odds of a third party, let's assume all result basically said friend or foe and use the guilty/innocent format, the cop should do the same. Otherwise if the cop got 'crew' and posts so after a bunch 'innocent', he/she might single themselves out.

Our goal in hypocopping is to let the investigator leave a receipt of his nightly transactions without exposing himself to attack, a strictly random pattern of results off a list that includes high-prob investigatees is the best way to block any pattern analysis by the DFs.

Example (and my hypcop):

I don't know who is or isn't a DF, but I consider many players especially dangerous, if they'r eone of the DFs, I want them taken out pronto, more than their DF allies.I want a list of six targets because in my case I'm going to randomly select an investigatee from my list using a six-sided die, if I am notthe cop. My list includes the 'known threats' as I call them, people who I've been playing against for a long time and who are likely to see through my tricks and traps. In this game that's KAtie, FT, Fox, Gher, and Hobo - who also all voted for the lynch of Hopper, who was innocent (although 100% lemming so it's less valid then normal), a good DF doesn't let an opportunity pass so odds are most of them voted for Hopper. That's five and I'll round it out to 6 with beetnemesis, since he said something I at least initially considered suspicious, and many of you should be sticking my name on that 'very suspicious table' anyway. I assign them each a number 1-6 and roll, in this case I'd do this randomly this time even if I were a cop, because none of them really stand out and I don't trust my subconscious to make decisions for me sionce it usually says "Kill Gher!" I roll my die and get a 1

I investigate (or hypocop) #1, KAtie, if the cop, I wait for a result and post it to the hypocop table. If not, I roll a d6 (a die) and get a number, let's say I did this and the number was 4, by my previous 1 to 4 innnocent, 5 and 6 guilty, DK shows up innocent, and I post that.

Trust me, this is the best way to hypocop, it keeps patterns from showing.