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Post Post #1025 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 4:45 am

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Thanks for modding Psyche!
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Post Post #1026 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 4:53 am

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Post Post #1027 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 4:56 am

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in hindsight, I think lynching hopkirk was dumb after he thought I was the mason; he would of obviously NK'd me

also, I hard defended PM but then again, his ATE did feel super town to me; I thought last scum would have fought tooth and nail (like hopkirk kind of)

also I'm curious about what informed mafioso was actually informed about
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Post Post #1028 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 5:26 am

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AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY WHO CALLED IT BABY

COULD'VE BEEN A PERFECT IF Y'ALL JUST LISTENED TO ME
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Post Post #1029 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 7:15 am

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more info to be shared soon, sorry
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Post Post #1030 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:08 am

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Great work folks!! I'm so glad golden shot me on n2 LOL.

By the last half of the game, I kept thinking jjd was scum... Damn was I wrong on joral slot.
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Post Post #1031 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:11 am

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In post 1027, Golden Robster wrote:in hindsight, I think lynching hopkirk was dumb after he thought I was the mason; he would of obviously NK'd me

also, I hard defended PM but then again, his ATE did feel super town to me; I thought last scum would have fought tooth and nail (like hopkirk kind of)

also I'm curious about what informed mafioso was actually informed about
He was informed that there were masons in the game. This game had an interesting setup.
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Post Post #1032 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:14 am

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Just want to add that golden and jjd, I've played with you guys so many times when we're town , that even if I die, I rest assured that you guys will do well in some way.

The attention to detail and other techniques used to win, I'm consistently relieved to see.
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Post Post #1033 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:18 am

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What was the code meant to say?
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Post Post #1034 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:25 am

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i meaned to link the setup design thread here, but it's not modded by me so i'll have to ask implosion

oh by the way, the text of the role pms made it impossible for mafia to use a PR and kill at the same time, severely hobbling projectmatt from doing anything that could potentially turn the game around
it's honestly not clear to me whether mastina intended for that to happen or not, but either way in the future i'd urge predesigned setup threads to be a bit more deliberate and detailed in their discussion of relevant mechanics and rules and so on
this was my mistake, too - i all too readily just jumped into the game with what the NRG people gave me, when maybe I should have thought the setup through before the game started and sought confirmation about stuff implied in role pms

as an example of a clearer flaw in the role pms provided to me, the mafia role pms seemed to technically (as in, if you read the text and didn't think about how mafia normally works) give each member of the faction their own killing ability

all of these issues will probably be resolved once the Normal role pm templates are finished being written up
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Post Post #1035 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 10:08 am

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Actually, Psyche I remember wondering why you don't have a "no cryptography rule" or some such..

Because this:
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seemed out of bounds to me. It would have bugged me if I were scum.
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Post Post #1036 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 10:13 am

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is that cryptography?
i figured it was like breadcrumbing through a hangman minigame
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Post Post #1037 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 10:14 am

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Oh yeah, I was thinking it seemed a bit wrong.
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Post Post #1038 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 10:15 am

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do mods really usually ban that?
it seems about as bad as making the first letter of each of your posts spell something
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I think the difference is a breadcrumb is public/knowable information whereas codes/ciphers are unknowable/based on external knowledge.
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Post Post #1040 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 10:50 am

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In post 1039, Hopkirk wrote:I think the difference is a breadcrumb is public/knowable information whereas codes/ciphers are unknowable/based on external knowledge.
Yeah, pretty much this.

If one mason dies without the other exposed, then it gives a small benefit to scum in that they can counter-claim a mason.
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Post Post #1041 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 10:56 am

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In post 1040, Kublai Khan wrote:
In post 1039, Hopkirk wrote:I think the difference is a breadcrumb is public/knowable information whereas codes/ciphers are unknowable/based on external knowledge.
Yeah, pretty much this.

If one mason dies without the other exposed, then it gives a small benefit to scum in that they can counter-claim a mason.
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Post Post #1042 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:13 pm

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In post 1024, Kublai Khan wrote:Good job town!
Yep, fairly solid performance. You barely needed the PRs at all.

What'd you think of the setup, btw?
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Post Post #1043 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:18 pm

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Mason tracker feels like an OPed role. Once it had the guilty on NM, there was literally nothing he could do.
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Post Post #1044 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:23 pm

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In post 1034, Psyche wrote:oh by the way, the text of the role pms made it impossible for mafia to use a PR and kill at the same time, severely hobbling projectmatt from doing anything that could potentially turn the game around
This is because in the new Normal guidelines, in order for the mafia to be able to both kill and action, they need the Multitasking modifier.

I did not design the role to have it. Having two dead scum in the first two days of the game is...well, it's the town performing as well as is possible; that obviously is going to tip the scales massively in the town's favor.

With so much as one scumbuddy alive, the mafia JOAT can make a big difference--the mafia just got really, really unlucky.

Admittedly, this is something I could have asked about adding, but my setup reviewer thought that the lack of the multitasking modifier kept the mafia from being overpowered, so it was in fact part of the setup design, albeit not something I had a strong attachment to.
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This can be traced to me not knowing I'd actually be responsible for writing said PMs; I thought I only needed to specify the roles and then that'd basically be it. But, since the prewritten role PM project is not yet finished, the job did get put on me so I wasn't quite as meticulous as I'd have been if I were designing roles normally, soyeah; it's an issue which will be fixed when we have the prewritten PMs.
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Post Post #1045 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:32 pm

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I thought the setup was very novel. I kept thinking the 3 prs were quite powerful . I think the mafia goon could've been something different like a mafia encryptor , mafia ninja, or something else in order to balance the sides...at least in terms of abilities.
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Post Post #1046 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:36 pm

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In post 1043, JarJarDrinks wrote:Mason tracker feels like an OPed role. Once it had the guilty on NM, there was literally nothing he could do.
I go into the details of my thought process behind the setup design in the design thread, but my basic process here was that I wanted a Vigilante to be in the same game as Masons, with an absolute 0% chance of the Vigilante shooting a (presumably unclaimed) mason. (Thus, mason-vig.) From there, knowing that the town would need a couple of extra PRs, I added in the jailkeeper and mason-tracker.

The tracker was a mason as to not give the town four power roles (mason-vig, mason, jk, tracker is MUCH stronger than mason-vig, mason-tracker, jk) and also to prevent a tracker from getting a guilty on a mason-vig (which is the type of interaction I wanted to avoid creating). I wanted to have a weak investigative for the town, because with just masons, the vig, and the jailkeeper, the town had no surefire way of gathering any information.

For that purpose and to that end, tracker is a generally good go-to role, because it is fairly worthless in the earlygame short of dumb luck. (Which it got.) It does have some lategame power behind it, but the tracker is never designed in ANY game by ANY moderator to get a guilty N1 after a scum lynch D1. (I guarantee you that scenario doesn't play out in any review thread.)

That having been said, in hindsight, a motion detector would probably have served much the same function here, but it's honestly not a role I much think about using. (Because to me, Motion Detector is a different role which serves as a nerfed watcher/voyeur variant; I know that's not the site standard, but it's what *I*,
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Post Post #1047 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:39 pm

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In post 1045, Performer wrote:I thought the setup was very novel. I kept thinking the 3 prs were quite powerful . I think the mafia goon could've been something different like a mafia encryptor , mafia ninja, or something else in order to balance the sides...at least in terms of abilities.
Mafia had daytalk by their role PM wording. Also, an ungated ninja would never be something I'd pit against a tracker; even a 1x ninja against a tracker is honestly a bit cruel. (Ninja is more of a watcher counter.)

If the mafia were to receive a buff, the most likely would just be to make the JOAT be multitasking in my opinion, since not acting did in fact nerf them.
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Post Post #1048 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 1:08 pm

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In post 1042, mastina wrote:
In post 1024, Kublai Khan wrote:Good job town!
Yep, fairly solid performance. You barely needed the PRs at all.

What'd you think of the setup, btw?
What was the final setup? I think I got it, but I wanna see it laid out.
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Post Post #1049 (ISO) » Fri Jul 06, 2018 1:47 pm

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In post 1042, mastina wrote:
In post 1024, Kublai Khan wrote:Good job town!
Yep, fairly solid performance. You barely needed the PRs at all.

What'd you think of the setup, btw?
Weird setup to say the least, but it seems balanced.
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