[OPEN]Neighborhood Distribution
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Alyssa The Lamb Mafia Scum
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[OPEN]Neighborhood Distribution
The idea is that town specifically is looking to create as many all-town neighborhoods as possible and condense the mafia team into as few neighborhoods as possible, with a perfect distribution resulting in an immediate win, while the closest neighbor results in a more standard game where that side has an advantage.
I'm not entirely sure there's a strong way to break the game in a way that it becomes very hard for one faction to get a distribution that almost always favors them. I suspect the closest is scum specifically designating five town players as the initial neighborhood players, although soft confirming five players as town seems really dangerous when there's a high likelihood that the game isn't going to end in that phase.Last edited by Alyssa The Lamb on Sun Jan 02, 2022 8:16 pm, edited 1 time in total.-
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I'm not really married to the specifics of the endgame
One other idea I have after reading through that is having each neighborhood in order for on whether they are a TTT neighborhood or not, but that sounds like it would be easier in a 3- neighborhood setup for scum when the intention is for that to be the more townsided version-
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the original idea I was thinking of was that the first player would still be able to contribute in a way through communicating with the second player. I actually expect that in practice the neighborhoods would be filled via putting two people in them one after the other (since that gives town the best odds of being able to shove their townreads into specific neighborhoods), but in the case that this happens, it might be enough that the neighbors still in the main thread are able to vote as well?In post 3, northsidegal wrote:i wonder if there might be a problem when it comes to voting on evens, though. it may be an unlikely possibility, but consider the scenario where three neighborhoods are filled at three, and the last two neighborhoods both have two people in them. thus, there are two people remaining. how do you resolve who goes where? if both players want to go to neighborhood 4, is it just the first person to vote themselves for it? that seems unsatisfying as a resolution.
also, stepping back from a mechanics / EV perspective and towards the perspective of actually being a player, it seems like you lose a worrying amount of agency after being placed into a neighborhood. there is the possibility that you'll have to come back and vote out the hoods, but after you've been put in a hood you lose a lot of your ability to interact with the game, which seems like it could lead to people losing motivation to actually keep up with the thread. i wonder if there might be some way to make it so that you retain something to do even when you're in the hoods – maybe the 4/3 endgame scenarios could be something decided within the rooms themselves similar to situation room? i don't know.
requoting just to put these spaces in since it was legitimately hard to parse beforehandIn post 5, Not Known 15 wrote:
But if we vary it a bit...In post 4, Alyssa The Lamb wrote:I'm not really married to the specifics of the endgame
One other idea I have after reading through that is having each neighborhood in order for on whether they are a TTT neighborhood or not, but that sounds like it would be easier in a 3- neighborhood setup for scum when the intention is for that to be the more townsided version
Otherwise, the neighborhoods vote on TTT or not.
In MMT neighborhoods, T not voting for TTT is enough
Players may lock their Not TTT vote, this includes Mafia.
MMM neighborhoods are lost to Mafia.
Then:2 neighborhoods with scum:If the town votes incorrectly on 4 neighborhoods, scum wins. Otherwise, town win.
TTT MMM TTM TTM TTT: scum win if 4 incorrect votes. Town win if 1 or less. If 3 or 2: All players are added back to the thread and must vote out the MMM neighborhood for town to win.
MMT MMT MTT TTT TTT:scum win if 4 or 5 incorrect votes.
Town win if 1 or less. If 3 or 2: All players are added back to the thread. 1 lim. Correct, town wins, otherwise mafia.
4 neighborhoods:scum win if 2-5 incorrect votes
Town win if 0 incorrect votes.
If 1 incorrect vote:All TTM neighborhoods perform a lim amongst themselves, and the TTT and MMT players go back to the thread and lim one. Town needs 3 correct lims. The thread lim majority only triggers if the neighborhoods have limmed.
5 neighborhoods:Town wins if all neighborhoods are correct and if these neighborhoods then each vote out scum amongst themselves. Otherwise scum wins.-
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One possibility that might fix the problem is that once all the neighborhoods are formed, each neighborhood needs to play a 3p endgame within their own neighborhood. Whichever alignment wins 3 neighborhoods wins the game. But, all TTT and SSS neighborhoods flip immediately and create a win for their team. I'm thinking it's probably better to have the posting happen within the main thread itself.
So if there's only two neighborhoods with scum in it, then town immediately wins.
If there's three, then there's only three neighborhoods in play with scum knowing which one is the tiebreaker
If there's four, then it's effectively even, with town immediately having 3 townflips and a free win, while scum have the ability to know which neighborhood is an automatic win.
If there's five, then it's simply a standard set of 5 3p endgames.
I don't know if this gets across the idea I had that town wants to shove as many scum into as few neighborhoods as possible, but it would definitely simplify the concept a lot more.Last edited by Alyssa The Lamb on Sat Jan 08, 2022 7:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.-
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