[JUNE CHALLENGE]

[Something_Smart]

See [MAY CHALLENGE] for last month's thread.

June Challenge

Create a new open setup.

The setup must satisfy at least

one

of the following conditions:

• The game must last no longer than three game days.
  
• At least two PT's can be created during the game as the result of a game mechanic (rather than a player's role).
  
• At least two-thirds of the town-aligned players have the same non-vanilla role.

Submit your setups as posts in this thread. You may re-submit and/or edit until June 30, at which point we'll vote.

Winner will be in charge of the requirements for next month's challenge! I promise you it's not as fun as it sounds!

[singletonking]

The game must last no longer than three days.

days or Days?

[Something_Smart]

Game days, lol. This is not a blitz setup challenge

Edited to be more clear.

[TemporalLich]

Two Zones

15 players

3 Mafia Goons

2 Mafia Traitors

2 Town Masons

7 Vanilla Townies

Every Day, Town must vote to send one player to Zone A and must vote to send a different player to Zone B.

Each player gets one vote for each zone. Majority locks in the vote for that zone.

A vote should be formatted like this: VOTE: TemporalLich to Zone A

Voting is compulsive. That means plurality voting is in effect and voting No Lynch is not allowed.

Once a player is sent to a zone, they disappear with no flip and may only talk in that zone's PT.

Each Night, players in each zone must compose a message of any length in the zone's PT to be posted in the game thread.

After Day 5, the players not in a zone die and flip. The game continues inside the zone PT's, where players vote to lynch in the zone PT threads during the Day as normal, however lynching is still compulsive. Lynched players flip in the game thread.

Town wins when all Mafia-aligned members die.

Mafia wins when they achieve parity in a zone after Day 5.

There are no factional nightkills in this game.

Mafia Goons are not informed who the Mafia Traitors are.

Mafia Traitors are informed who the Mafia Goons are, but not who the other Mafia Traitor is.

Players may communicate in any PT at any time.

I haven't tried to balance this yet.

[Irrelephant11]

A joke setup, because bad ideas come easy to me:

3 goons
10 townies

During each day, lynch any number of players. The day only ends when a majority of players vote no lynch.
If exactly one scum was lynched in a day,, town gets a point. If 0, 2, or 3 scum are lynched in a day, scum get a point.

First team to two points wins. If at any point scum achieve parity, they also win.

[RadiantCowbells]

Correct play is to treat it as nightless

[Irrelephant11]

My setup? I don’t think that’s true? Eliminating all scum on D1 is a scum win

[RadiantCowbells]

Scum get one point but then they lose, no? Or am I misunderstanding

[RadiantCowbells]

If that isn't a viable strategy then the game is incredibly punishing for town and very unlikely to end in wins.

[Irrelephant11]

Yes that is the bad idea part
Scum get one point for the day that three of them were lynched
Then another point for the following day, in which none of them are lynched
I guess it might be more balanced if I made it “if 1 or 2 are lynched in a day, town gets a point. Otherwise scum does” but it’s not a good setup regardless. It just adds a weird “how many do we think we’ve hit” WIFOM to the game that could be interesting as part of another setup

[BNL]

Even lynching 2 scum together is an immedaute scum win.

[BuJaber]

Am I missing something or do both these setups not meet the challenge requirements?

[popsofctown]

You only have to satisfy one of the conditions, if you are making the same mistake I made when reading last month's challenge.

Irrelephant's shitpost setup does not meet the requirements because a run of the setup only sometimes satisfies requirement1, but TemporalLich's setup qualifies.

[Something_Smart]

Irrelephant's shitpost setup is valid, actually. One team gets a point each day and it's first to two, so it will always be over in three days or less.

[popsofctown]

Oh points are awarded even on mass no-lynch
What a lolzy setup.

[popsofctown]

but I thought this was going to be newbie queue month????????????

1 Mafia Goon
1 Mafia Roleblocker (fails on Bodyguards)
6 Town Bodyguards
1 Cop

maybe these requirements mean S_S wants a more ToS-immigrant-friendly newbie queue

2 Mafia Goons
2 Compulsive D1 dayvigs
1 Jester (beloved princess)
2 Werewolves
2 Vanilla Townies

or maybe we are just supposed to use PTs to make mafia easier to get into and more scumsided

2d3

Dark Consultation

: Whenever you become the only antitown player left in the game, the mod creates a PT and pulls an SE from the queue to be your demon-on-shoulder who will review the game and provide input. Players can't /in as SE to the queue unless also willing to provide this type of help. Their input is only available until 48 hours have passed in the following day. Games with an SE on the scumteam have no

Dark Consultation

.

Mastering Impersonation

: Once per game per player, a lone antitown player can PM the mod that they need to claim. A 36 hour claim PT will be created. The PT has the following contents:
First post: boilerplate recommendations about fakeclaiming in 2d3 from the mod.
Requesting player: Posts with no restrictions
Demon-on-shoulder: Posts with no restrictions, not expected to read the entire game up to that point, just find out what's already been claimed and explain a good claim and why based on that.
Deceased mafia teammate: May only post the name of a role they recommend claiming and no other text.

Mastering Impersonation

is available as long as the lone antitown player isn't an SE.

[Irrelephant11]

The idea that this month would be used as a challenge to design something new for the newbie queue was thrown out there, but given we're already halfway into the month and the newbie setup is no small ask I'm not sure it's a good idea to try it rn. Maybe next month, or maybe we'll figure out without a challenge

[popsofctown]

I am already on the same page with you about all of that.

[Something_Smart]

Sorry, I never got that memo.

I suppose I could add "A 9 player semi-open setup suitable for the Newbie Queue" to the list of options for this challenge.

It would probably be better to have it be separate from these, though, now that I think about it.

[popsofctown]

No, like irrelephant says, it works out better this way, a newbie queue challenge would deserve a full month.

[BuJaber]

You only have to satisfy one of the conditions, if you are making the same mistake I made when reading last month's challenge.

Irrelephant's shitpost setup does not meet the requirements because a run of the setup only sometimes satisfies requirement1, but TemporalLich's setup qualifies.

Yes I conveniently skip the line saying at least ONE.

[Irrelephant11]

A less joking but potentially still bad setup

follow the doc

3 mafia goons with both factional rolecop and factional kill (multitasking)

9 miller cops

1 doctor

[popsofctown]

I kind of like the design even if I'm not sure about the numbers.

[popsofctown]

Matsuda Mafia

2 Light and Misa

7 Matsuda

Light and Misa's factional nightkill is special. The faction selects a townie and causes it to kill another townie. A tracker will see nothing because it's just writing.
Misa is a multiacting tracker.

Matsuda's night action: Track a player's killing actions, ignoring nonkilling actions, but receive "visited nobody" if any player tracked you

[popsofctown]

I think this is probably closer to 50/50, and last month Jingle said he preferred to see change history

Matsuda Mafia v2

2 Light and Misa

7 Matsuda

Light and Misa's factional nightkill is special. The faction selects a townie and causes it to kill another townie. A tracker will not see Light or Misa visiting either player; they just wrote in a book that it should happen.
Misa is a multi-acting tracker.

Matsuda's night action: Track a player's killing actions, ignoring nonkilling actions, but receive "Matsuda is clumsy!" if any player tracked you