[SETUP] The Odds (Variant)

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[SETUP] The Odds (Variant)

Post Post #0 (ISO) » Sat Aug 18, 2018 7:51 pm

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Based on Ether's The Odds, I thought of a similar setup, but instead of tying probabilities to each player's alignment, we tie it to the possible scumteams instead:

ABCDEFGHI
AX41111112
BX1111112
CX222223
DX22223
EX2233
FX433
GX33
HX5
IX


This is constructed somewhat arbitrarily for now, not sure how to make it more interesting, but the idea is there.

Roll a 1d75 (75 being the sum of everything in the table) to determine the scumteam.

Probability of each player being scum:

PlayerProbability
A12/75
B12/75
C15/75
D15/75
E16/75
F18/75
G18/75
H20/75
I24/75
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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Mon Aug 20, 2018 10:21 am

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I would stack it more toward certain pairs. The interesting thing about doing it with scumpairs is that the odds are different from each town player's perspective, since they know they are innocent and can rule out all those pairs. If you can set up a situation where several players have a most likely scum that is different from the pre-game probability, I think that would be a plus. Quick example:

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 0    2    3    4    4    1    1    1    9
      0    4    3    5    1    1    9    1
           0    2    6    1    9    1    1
                0    7    9    1    1    1
                     0    1    2    3    4
                          0    6    7    8
                               0    8    7
                                    0    6
                                         0


Here I is still most likely scum, but from A's perspective the most likely are H>G>F>E=I; from E's perspective, F=G=H=I; and from F's perspective, E>G=H=I.

(If you wanted to get really cute, you could assign 1s on the main diagonal, and if a player is "self-paired" they get to pick their partner.)
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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Mon Aug 20, 2018 10:47 am

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A more extreme example:

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0    1    8    3    1    1    4    9    5
     0    2    8    7    1    1    5    9
          0    4    9    5    1    1    6
               0    7    9    5    1    1
                    0    3    9    3    1
                         0    6   10    7
                              0    8   10
                                   0    9
                                        0


Here, I is the mostly likely scum, but only three players town players would think so (and only two, if I is in fact scum with one of those three).
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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Mon Aug 20, 2018 10:48 am

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There's not nearly as much of a spread in pre-game individual odds in these examples, though given how much info a scum flip would give maybe that's ok. (The second is particularly nice, because the pre-game odds are an arithmetic sequence from 8/45 to 12/45.)
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Fri Aug 24, 2018 1:31 am

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Hmm interesting, thanks for the input mith! I wasn't really sure how to make the probabilities that make the game interesting.

Also I'm definitely don't want the "choose your partner" thing.
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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Fri Aug 24, 2018 6:34 pm

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This reminds me a bit of the Scumteam UnPick setup by Creature (it's 6 town vs. 2 scum, pregame each player gets to bar two scumteams that don't include themself from being rolled, N1 is skipped but otherwise it's a normal day/night cycle, D1's flip is delayed until N2).
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Post Post #6 (ISO) » Fri Sep 07, 2018 10:21 am

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That sounds interesting.
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Post Post #7 (ISO) » Tue Sep 11, 2018 4:20 am

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In post 4, BNL wrote:Hmm interesting, thanks for the input mith! I wasn't really sure how to make the probabilities that make the game interesting.

Also I'm definitely don't want the "choose your partner" thing.
"Choose your partner" would basically be the same as assigning an extra unit of probability to the lowest probability pair, since optimal strategy (disregarding skill of the player list for a moment) would be to choose whomever is least likely to be your partner in order to throw town off the scent when there's a flip.

I agree this setup is really interesting.
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Post Post #8 (ISO) » Tue Sep 11, 2018 4:33 am

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Is it at least balanced so each person has an equal chance of rolling scum?
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Post Post #9 (ISO) » Tue Sep 11, 2018 9:44 am

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No; and that's kinda the point of The Odds type setups.
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Post Post #10 (ISO) » Tue Sep 11, 2018 10:18 am

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I don’t like that being in a certain slot increases your odds of being scum. Unless the letters aren’t distributed by playerlist order I don’t like this idea.
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Post Post #11 (ISO) » Wed Sep 12, 2018 1:11 pm

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Then you wouldn't enjoy this setup (or The Odds). ~shrug~

You could do this type of setup while making the slots all have equal pre-game probability of being scum, but it wouldn't be as interesting. Ultimately, you would have the same problem on day 2 when players C and F flip town and everyone has different odds.
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Post Post #12 (ISO) » Wed Sep 12, 2018 1:21 pm

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In post 10, Gamma Emerald wrote:I don’t like that being in a certain slot increases your odds of being scum. Unless the letters aren’t distributed by playerlist order I don’t like this idea.
You can choose the slot you want when you sign up
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Post Post #13 (ISO) » Thu Sep 13, 2018 8:36 am

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In post 12, BNL wrote:
In post 10, Gamma Emerald wrote:I don’t like that being in a certain slot increases your odds of being scum. Unless the letters aren’t distributed by playerlist order I don’t like this idea.
You can choose the slot you want when you sign up
That is acceptable then
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Post Post #14 (ISO) » Thu Sep 13, 2018 8:36 am

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Though you'd need people to rank their preferences
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Post Post #15 (ISO) » Mon Oct 29, 2018 10:06 pm

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I'm intending to run this again in the future, but I want to use different grids each time.

Here's something I came up with:

ABCDEFGHI
AX68232834
BX9331159
CX214672
DX35698
EX7977
FX878
GX12
HX4
IX


Sum is still 180, probabilities are 36 37 39 38 40 42 41 43 44

I also want to put in a small power role this time, chosen uniformly randomly among all the townies after rolling the scumteam. Based on mith's role idea I'm thinking of making the PR a Town Deflector.

Thoughts on this new setup?
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