how about a hider that chooses pregame between dying on mafia or werewolfIn post 70, Mathdino wrote:
Got a request for this setup, which has a 100% town lossrate on the wiki.
The problem with this setup (within the constrains of multiball) for town is that it can't actually confirm anyone. (Please no snarky comments about how the problem is multiball, I get it)
I wonder if this would be balanced just by converting a townie to an activated innocent child?
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Needlessly screws over one scumteam I think, given that hiders almost universally breadcrumb everything.- Flubbernugget
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The essential problem with masons and monks in terms of balance is that it's super reliant on cross-kills, since 9/2/2 with no killing or protective roles makes life challenging for town given site meta. Town could lynch correctly the first three days and get:
9/2/2->9/2/1->7/2/1
7/2/1->7/1/1->5/1/1
5/1/1->5/1/0->4/1/0
1 scum left, but day before LYLO
or...
9/2/2->9/2/1->7/2/1
7/2/1->7/2/0->6/2/0
1 scum team fully operational, and the day before MYLO
So even three straight correct lynches could, int eh absence of cross-kills or overlapping kills, net out to being one day before LYLO/MYLO
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Including 2 Paladins is definitely a buff for town. Eliminating one scumteam (via D1 lynch and single crosskill) could potentially result in 4 clears, however, which is a little much.
The nature of multiball is to be swingy. My guess is that due to the possibility of so many clears, this tips the setup into a 50% townwin 25% mafiawin 25% werewolfwin range.
Tactical massclaim just seems debilitating in a way unlike most multiball setups.
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I mean, there's always been three philosophies of balancing multiball. One, the philosophy that town should win the game half the time. Two, the philosophy that every player, and thus each faction (possibly excluding serial killers), should have an equal chance to win. Three, "...did I just hear that correctly?yessiree wrote:meh, maybe we just have to live with a 50% town win 50%anti-townwin for multi-ballsbalancedmultiball? is this some weird joke i'm not getting?"
though the third philosophy is the most accurate, it's never been clear which of the first two is better.
Another idea riffing off of bb's setups here that might be interesting is having, say, informed neighborhoods or informed masonries/monkhoods. e.g., "you two players are masons, you both know that the other is not mafia, and you know that player Z is neither mafia nor werewolf."- Mathdino
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I admit I'm probably not the best voice on balancing multiball, but I think the model we use is definitely important.
For singleball, I go in with the basic assumption that Friends and Enemies (3 mafia vs 3 masons) is roughly balanced (slightly scumsided just because masons are bad at hiding themselves), and a Cop 13er (3 mafia vs 1 cop) is balanced on MU but scumsided here. Hilariously, Faith Plus One (a Cop 13er with 2 Faith Healers) is actually scumsided in practice here, dunno why.
Regardless, looking over popular multiball setups, it looks like
- Friends and Enemies and Enemies (2 mafia, 2 werewolves, 3 town masons) is balanced by 50:25:25
- Fire and Ice (2 mafia, 2 werewolves, 1 doctor, extra mechanics) is balanced by 33:33:33.
So we can have the goal of "balance around town getting 3 clears" or "balance around the hope that town can prevent enough NKs to win".
I think Masons and Monks and Paladins looks balanced by 50:25:25, and would be interested in seeing that run (albeit uninterested in playing most likely).- yessiree
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EV in practice of course, rather than in theory. Singleball theoretical EV can swing from 40% to 60% yet have completely opposite results in practice.
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yo did I do the math wrong here? I'm getting different numbers now.
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Polygamy for All:
Effectively equivalent to 2:5 with one lynch immune scum on D2. D1 is 2:5, D2 is 1:3.
1 - (5/7 * 3/4) = 46.4% town EV. Not bad, but a bit big.
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6 lynches end the game for scum on D1, and 2/8 lynches end it on D2.
6/16 + 10/16 * 2/8 = 53.1% town EV. Also not bad, also a bit big
They're both balanced setups, but yeah your calculations were a bit low.- BBmolla
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On second thought, I actually would argue these setups are scumsided.
The problem with Lovers Mafia and Polygamist is that while they both have 60% town EV on random lynching,lynches are not random, and high volume of scum basically guarantees mislynches.
Polygamy for All is roughly okay, although 4 mafia instead of standard 3 is huge.
Polygamy For You and Me though creates 4 mafia on D2 who can quickhammer (and basically can't do anything else).
They're cool ideas in theory, but I don't think either would solve Polygamist's issues in practice.- BBmolla
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Okay this I like.
I don't like Vigilante Mason; gut says it's actually optimal for a Werewolf Mason to just shoot their buddy. Could make it super obvious that they're buddies on D1 "accidentally" in order to cover up this play.
Doctor Monk is really interesting, but you're gonna have to deal with the fact that EV-wise (ignoring actual play) it's always optimal for Doc to protect their buddy until all wolves are dead.
But factional rolecop is the best idea I've heard to reduce the swing of whether or not mafia and wolves rand mason/monk.- BBmolla
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I don't think EV really says anything on that considering how many options there are to use either the masonry or the rolecop well. Lots of gambits available if you roll mason with someone as scum in that setup.
The real question then is whether Doc/Vig is too much. Vig claim results in Follow The Vigilante, and both of them are effectively innocent children once claimed.
There's a happy medium between the two, I'm sure.
What if we do Town Angel Monk and Town Doctor Mason? Angel protects against wolf kills, doctor against mafia kills. No vig (adding more swing is probably a bad idea in the current meta ).
Alternatively, Doctor Monk and Angel Mason. I'm not sure which would be more interesting.- BBmolla
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Ooh good call.
In this way scum have incentive to try to be townie enough to get the town protector to protect them from the other scumteam. With three members in the masonry it discourages just killing the PR because otherwise the other mason will probably out you.Come see me in the Great American Melodrama in Oceano - BBmolla
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