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In post 550, Childs~ wrote:MOD PETAPAN: If a Thing assimilated a power role, would they be able to use it?
In post 614, Blair~ wrote:@Mod how does this even work.
hypothetically if a vigilante targeted a thing who was assimilating another player and there are no other night actions, what happens?
i do think revealing the things had no power roles was a mistake, i somewhat absent-mindedly gave that info out in the setup posts without thinking about the implications. that being said, the only confirmable power roles in the setup were the friendly neighbor, which cleared itself regardless, and the vig, which is basically always town in MS site meta. i suppose the motion detector could confirm itself too but that's a somewhat unlikely scenario.In post 984, mastina wrote:Btw on the setup:
I feel like this setup would be balanced if it was not known the Things had no power roles, but knowing that every power role had to be town, I do think the setup was townsided, here.
For it to not be, assimilation needed to be more viable than it actually was. I thought that we had only three power roles--the 1x cop, the 1x "messenger" (friendly neighbor), and the 1x vig--because that was three conftown, and that wemaybehad room for like a 1x doctor (or as it turned out, x-shot bodyguard).
With the knowledge that Things had no PRs, that's about the level I'd expect for town power, but we had another investigative on top of that.
If we didn't have the knowledge of Things not having PRs, then I think the town has the perfect level of town power; this setup would be close to the balanced range in a mini normal, for instance. The lack of flips and Things having the assimilation mechanic would aid the scum, as would the lack of knowing for sure some things.
But imo, it needed to be one of the two, not both.
We needed either fewer PRs with the knowledge we had, or the number of PRs with less knowledge than we had.
That said, obviously, scum elimination with scum guilty and town being right on the third meant scum got a disproportionately bad start, and I think the win wasmostlyfrom good play, but I def think it was townsided at least somewhat.