Bookwyrm627: Gratz to Mafia for winning the Day game.
I'll go ahead and say it: after seeing it, I think this setup was heavily in favor of Mafia for the Night game. Between Strongman and Watcher, the Cop was a trap to be exploited by the Mafia. With half of Town wandering around at Night, the Watcher is almost a better Rolecop than a Rolecop would have been. x.x
The thing is, I DID anticipate Follow the Cop, but not that a watcher would be used to find out who visited the Cop. It is because of this well played move on the Mafia's part that Cadaver watched you visit Microfish N2, and promptly kill you next Night. Perhaps an Ascetic Cop would've forced Mafia to waste their watch and keep fighting.
joppo: I kinda think the scum team could be a
teeny tiny bit nerfed, or maybe Town beefed up but that would still be more swingy. That's alright anyway. Thanks Pooks for hosting and hopefully everyone had a lot of fun.
That's the fun part about this setup. Someone will say it's swingy because of mafia roles, another will say Town is beefy, someone else will say having a neutral in this setup is lunacy. I kinda wanted to see lots of roles clashing and causing quite a stir for both Mafia and Town, but gotta tip my hat to the Mafia, they were exceedingly efficient for the most part. Once I knew we had Catte, flub and Cadaver on board, I knew Town was going to be burned badly.
I think the bigger crime I made was actually releasing that godforsaken role list in the sign-up thread. Seeing it brought up again and again to try to guess at the current closed setup upset me, but what's done's done. I think I know better now as host. I think.
The idea behind the setup was of course:
Ninja - To counter tracker
Strongman - To counter Bulletproof and Doctor, but not Roleblocker and Commuter
Watcher - To inform the Mafia of visiting Town roles,
but not what they actually do.
They watch some random dude overnights and say it's dedo, and he is visited by Leoric. But Leoric is a fruit vendor. They kill a mostly not that deal-breaking role. Now another time Bookwyrm visits and he's a doc and they hit the jackpot, but one jackpot is all they needed.
joppo: Lastly I wanna point out that on the scumchat there was a lot of back-and-forth whether Flub or Catte should do the kill on N3. Had they went with Flub Dedo would have half the game won for Town. He would have prevented a kill, get Flub lynched and confirmed himself all in one go.
Just imagine if this happened. Scum half-nuked because they had the Ninja go. Would've been a vastly different endgame.
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Glad everyone liked the game! If you think the balance is a bit weird, please tell me, now that the setup is no longer closed. I will also release the admin actions later, but that would be a Word file this time instead of a QT. Still, at least try not to figure out if the game is balanced or not while it's still ongoing ;)