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Post #0 (isolation #0) » Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:34 am
Postby kunkstar7 »
Mini 1572 -The Network.
Somehow, you find yourself yet again at the mercy of those who control from the shadows. What twisted project do they have in store now? It looks like....A graph? A network?
There's thirteen nodes on it, thirteen people seated around you, it's easy to figure out from there. So we're all connected then. What does that mean for the game?
Players Alive(6/13):
1. RedCoyote
4. Paschendale
5. Aegor
6. The Rufflig
SiX
9. snscompt1
11. StrangerCoug
Players Removed (7/13):
2. Nobody Special,
Vanilla Town
, lynched Day 1.
10. beastcharizard,
Vanilla Town
, corrupted Day 2.
7. cxinlee,
Mafia Godfather
, lynched Day 2.
3. idk,
Town Range Extender
, lynched Day 3.
12. Saki,
Town Conscripted Inventor
, lynched Day 4.
13. Snarky,
Town 1-Shot Hider
, backstabbed Day 4.
8. Porkens,
Town Mason
, corrupted Day 5.
Last edited by kunkstar7 on Tue Jun 10, 2014 1:26 am, edited 21 times in total.
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First off, thank you to all the players for once again being my test subjects for these ideas of mine. I do know that messing around with different ideas tends to lead to games that make players feel cheated by "the system", so hopefully you all enjoyed the time in the game regardless of the setup. Thanks again to The Rufflig and Saki for helping out with replacements, the appreciation for those can't be stated enough.
About the game: It was quite amusing to see two different players have the scumteam called completely Day One (I can't find it now but it was one of RedCoyote's). I felt that the scumteam was under fire the entire game and by Day Three when the claims started coming out I was certain that this was going to be a town win. As I said in the dead thread I have to apologize to the scumteam for putting them in a really tight position. I was worried that the setup was going to get broken at that point and I felt bad to have handed out a broken game. Then came the Saki lynch. RedCoyote said it straight, and I feel that was the turning point that put the scum back in the game. I think that if the town had sat a moment, looked at the claims, they may have worked out what the setup was likely to be and the scum would have been pretty helpless. Maybe that's just mod perspective though. From a setup perspective I loved how the endgame looked. 4 possible players, 2 scum had to be in there. The mechanic helped the town find a nice subset lynch pool, enhancing the scumhunting but not turning it into a "follow the cop" sort of situation. I personally think it forced the four players to all have to present an argument why they shouldn't be the lynch. Also I'm surprised that no one called RedCoyote out on the idea of having two of the same roles in the game, no one considered that one of them may have been scum.
About the setup: It took me a lot of different maps to find one that fit all the criteria I was looking for. The fact that it was a 13 player game made me cut out a few cool ideas that I had in mind for the setup originally, but that only means I can save them for a later iteration if it comes. Unfortunately for beastcharizard, he predicated his original setup theory on the highest priority criteria that I had: scum could not by normal means hit every player in the game. I did provide a workaround so the scum could eliminate a "problem player" in the form of a special one shot ability for the Mafia Godfather, but between cxinlee getting lynched early and not ever telling his teammates about the ability it was a useless measure. The masons were a later addition that I thought would be interesting but turned out to not work as I expected. Funnily, all three of the observers in that mason thread were scum, which was not an intended effect. When I added in the masons I thought it would be fitting to have the mechanic affect their chat ability in some manner and the result of that was adding the observers. The inventors just fit so well with the idea of player choice effecting the setup and with the idea of node connections between players, but perhaps the amount of power they added into the game was a bit too much.
tl;dr: Thanks for taking the time to play, congratulations scum for a game hard earned.
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Mod wrote:Welcome, PlayerName,
Node 00.
The powers that be have pressed you into service. At the very least, you can choose who to enlighten.
Conscripted Inventor:
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The available abilities to be granted are:
[
XXXX
]
Available Targets:
[
00. Xxxxxx
]
Town Win Condition:
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Mod Note: Inventor 1 gets to pass out: 1-Shot Hider, Tracker. Inventor 2 gets: Jailkeeper, Range Extender.
Mod wrote:Welcome, PlayerName,
Node 00.
Connections, authentications, these things are good.
Mason:
You know the player [
00. Xxxxxx
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[
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Mod wrote:Welcome, PlayerName,
Node 00.
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Mafia Stealth Godfather:
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Power, Unlimited Power
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Mod wrote:Welcome, PlayerName,
Node 00.
Sure you may just be a pawn in a greater scheme, but you at least get to have a little fun!
Mafia Goon:
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Mafia Win Condition:
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