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Quick Role question

Post Post #0 (ISO) » Wed May 15, 2019 4:15 am

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Hi everyone. I have a question. I've played in a game before where someone had a role that allowed you to look at the players who voted for a lynch and it could tell you how many were scum. I cannot remember what that role is called and I looked all over the wiki and couldn't find it. Can anyone help me with the name of that role please? Thanks!
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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Wed May 15, 2019 4:18 am

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Wagon sensor
2019 stats: Town WR 76.7%, overall WR 81.667%, 1 scum defeat involving a major mod error in lylo vs 8 scum wins.
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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Wed May 15, 2019 4:19 am

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Thanks!
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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Sun May 19, 2019 10:45 am

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Sensor.

It's almost impossible to balance a game around this; they basically always end up townsided. Effectively splitting the playerlist into two groups, knowing how many scum are in each, is just so powerful from a PoE point of view.

It also has the usual problem for superpowerful roles, which is that once you've balanced the game to allow for its presence, town's kind-of screwed if it happens to die before the ability is used.
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Sun Jul 07, 2019 9:17 am

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Making it night 1 only might be a good way to limit its power. Additionally, making the mafia informed of its existence might be good. In general, it is not a good role.
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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Sun Jul 07, 2019 11:07 am

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Even Night 1 only it's much more powerful than people expect. I'm curious as to whether it could balance a 10:3 by itself; it says something about the role's power that I'm not sure.
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