Hello bwgan,
Great to be paired with you, and no, not disappointed at all! in fact, am really looking forward to play with you since you are levelheaded and so inconspicuous that your survival during the game is a near guarantee, which rocks in merc games
You raise a couple of interesting issues.
Since we don't know who number 4 in the faction is, we'd better be careful for now, aye (although their death is probably not going to disable our ability to win the game, so we can possibly afford to be wrong).
On the other hand, body count is HIGH this game, or so the sign-up said, so I would advise to definately start killing after one of us dies, whether there is good information or not. On day 1/ night 1 though, we'd better act as if we're teethless
With the Spy in place, probably the best solution is make it as difficult for the extra reader as we can. I think there are a few solutions we might try:
1) to to not reply with quote tags to one another from now on, but to write a seperate message each time around, like I did now. If we save the messages we send, that way, we have the full convo in inbox and sent box, but someone listening in won't, unless they can read all messages sent and received on a given day.
2) to not use the alt names of our own family members in our pms. Would be a pity if they picked up the identity of daddy dearest that way
3) not refer to our faction, game alts, the family relation within our faction and forum alts in our messages. Otherwise, alt guesses can cost us dearly, and if the spy ability is like this:
Spy: send a name of a player to the mods. You receive all/ a number of X pms he sends (or receives)
then we don't betray one another through the contents of the message, or our faction because we write about brothers, sisters and fathers
Maybe call daddy Number 1 or Main Man or Leader, Sister nr 2, Backup, Symp, or something, and each other just 'you'? Feel free to adjust all of the above, but I think it is a good safety precaution, unless someone is listening in already, in which case, well...
As for updating P-S: I'll do it for this message - if we decide to work with method number 1, then we'll have to CC him each time we send something
Cheers,
me.