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Post Post #31 (isolation #0) » Tue May 01, 2018 11:45 am

Post by callforjudgement »

In post 13, mastina wrote:Scum are never given bulletproof vests for some reason (I dunno why, it's just not a role mods give scum)
In multiball, it's very common for scum to be given protective or self-protective roles (so that if they're looking particularly townish they can protect themselves from the other team crosskilling).

Outside multiball, giving scum bulletproofing is odd from a design point of view. If there's no vig, it doesn't do anything. If there is a vig, it effectively punishes the vig for scumhunting effectively. When you have a vig in your setup, the vig's scumhunting skill is going to have a major effect on the result, and that's something you balance around. So adding a random chance of that being completely reversed (some flip is normally better than no flip unless odd/even considerations intervene) is not only hard to balance, it also makes player skill less important.
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