The New Newbie Game Setup

Cabd · Post Post #3 (isolation #0) » Fri Sep 22, 2017 6:54 am

In post 2, Creature wrote:I can't understand this setup correctly. Do you mean that roles should come from different columns?

Correct. One of the three columns is chosen with a d3. Take the RED mafia role from the column. Then select one of the two GREEN town roles from each of the other two columns chosen randomly.

Cabd · Post Post #4 (isolation #1) » Fri Sep 22, 2017 6:56 am

So let's say your 3d3 roll is "1,2,3"

That means "column one is the mafia column" so you have a Mafia Roleblocker. Then for town, we get 2 and 3, making Column Two become Town Tracker, and Column Three become Town Jailkeeper. The setup is therefore:

3. Mafia Goon, Mafia Roleblocker vs. Town Tracker, Town Jailkeeper, 5x Town Vanilla

In practice, though, you can just use a single

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[dice]1d12[/dice]

to pick the setup.

Cabd · Post Post #7 (isolation #2) » Fri Sep 22, 2017 7:05 am

In post 0, PenguinPower wrote:5. The Mafia Private Topic is open at all times, including Day phases.

this was a requirement before the setup was even built, in my mind.

Newbie CONVERSION rate goes up with daytalk, imo

Cabd · Post Post #16 (isolation #3) » Fri Sep 22, 2017 7:52 am

In post 14, Virtuoso wrote:One other thing I noticed is scum doesn't have any safe fake PR claims. If scum knows they're in row 1, they can fake BP and if they know they're in column B they can fake claim doctor.

What?

Mafia knows which die they're in and can safely fakeclaim anything else on that die; without being CC'd.

Mafia on die one can safeclaim doctor or rolecop.
Mafia on die two can safeclaim tracker or roleblocker.
Mafia on die three can safeclaim cop or jailkeeper.

Cabd · Post Post #51 (isolation #4) » Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:19 pm

In post 50, Virtuoso wrote:I would propose

Mafia RB > Town RB > Town JK

This is my intent.

Cabd · Post Post #60 (isolation #5) » Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:34 pm

I think similar setups on Ms are fine to compare. Setups run on turbo sites are completely different in practice. The same setup has vastly different outcomes.

Cabd · Post Post #71 (isolation #6) » Fri Sep 22, 2017 2:40 pm

Presumably the setups are being colored by "sidedness"

Cabd · Post Post #73 (isolation #7) » Fri Sep 22, 2017 2:45 pm

I would assume blue is neutral; red is scum sided, green is town sided. But who knows.

Cabd · Post Post #141 (isolation #8) » Tue Sep 26, 2017 3:11 pm

In post 140, Toomai wrote:probably in the newbie queue's setup post, and ideally also in the setup post of every game

The next action item is a standardized mod and IC boilerplate template.

FWIW given scum always has daytalk, I"m in favor of the town roleblocker having priority.