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Post Post #5 (isolation #0) » Fri Dec 21, 2018 12:18 pm

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/in?

Color me provisionally interested, but likely unavailable.
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Post Post #13 (isolation #1) » Fri Dec 28, 2018 8:06 am

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Should we be linking to the discussion pages for setups we as a group are interested in testing as well?
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Post Post #41 (isolation #2) » Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:51 am

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I promise to completely forget about marathon weekend, log in while it's happening and flip a coin to decide whether I'm gonna play anything.
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Post Post #42 (isolation #3) » Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:53 am

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When you get a chance tw could you throw a list of setups people have requested into the OP so we can start organizing times for individual setups people want to make sure they catch?

Also, can we add whatever setup wins the challenge thread thing in your sig to the list. :D
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Post Post #45 (isolation #4) » Thu Jan 24, 2019 9:55 am

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Okay. Setup suggestions then. :P


mith's change here looks interesting to me: viewtopic.php?f=115&t=77281
viewtopic.php?f=115&t=77376 - Currently in a queue, but duplicating setups isn't the end of the world.
viewtopic.php?f=115&t=78146 - several player number options that are interesting.

interesting and possibly balanced options I'm interested in from the challenge thread:

viewtopic.php?p=10667227#p10667227
viewtopic.php?p=10674628#p10674628
viewtopic.php?p=10674650#p10674650
viewtopic.php?p=10676608#p10676608
viewtopic.php?p=10681717#p10681717
viewtopic.php?p=10681796#p10681796

Previously run, but I'd be interested in seeing additional games:

viewtopic.php?f=84&t=77903

Also, I've got a vague idea for a travelling Desperado game that I might whittle into a real setup before the marathon weekend.
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Post Post #49 (isolation #5) » Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:03 am

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Please note whether I'm going to roll scum or town in the table. TIA.
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Post Post #57 (isolation #6) » Thu Jan 24, 2019 12:17 pm

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That definitely sounds like a game where nsg and RC get shot. :shifty:

Probably a decent marathon tho. :P
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Post Post #59 (isolation #7) » Thu Jan 24, 2019 12:43 pm

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You should just say it's a one day setup. :P
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Post Post #62 (isolation #8) » Thu Jan 24, 2019 1:30 pm

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I mean... 3v3+2 is exactly 50%.

If you wanted to do the guess thing I'd make it 3v2+2 and give the two a PT for the whole game. I'd be down to run/play that, by the way.
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Post Post #63 (isolation #9) » Thu Jan 24, 2019 1:31 pm

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(Also it works as a modless setup in F2F, which is kinda cool)
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Post Post #69 (isolation #10) » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:44 am

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^Do you have any setups in mind that could use more testing?
In post 64, the worst wrote:I actually don't hate the idea too much.
Maybe a win is just a redflip on d1 but I feel like the nsg/rc thing is specifically intended to townsided heavily above mechanical ev since they're both Overpowered....

I too would mod/play it
I thought your addition was a they win if scum lynch or accurate guess. I wouldn't like to be town with the win completely out of my hands in that setup.

On the other hand:

Burden of Proficiency Mafia3 VT

2 Mafia Goon

2 3P Unlynchable Paragons

Mafia win if a town player is lynched and they aren't guessed. Town win if a mafia player is lynched. Paragons win if they collectively guess the scumteam after one flip, regardless of what the flip is.

Paragons /in as Paragons, other roles randomly distributed.


Town has a 40% EV (which should be bumped by the Paragon's influence because they want to lynch scum), Mafia is dropped from 60% based on the chance of Paragon guessing correctly, so it shouldn't be too much more than 50%. Paragons have a 25% chance on a scumlynch and a 16.7% chance on a town lynch, which is low but accepted because they're supposed to be good at this and also 3p.
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Post Post #73 (isolation #11) » Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:44 am

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In post 71, callforjudgement wrote:EV is town 40%, scum 50%, paragon 20%.

I think it might be more fair to give the Paragons two guesses after a scum lynch. That moves the EVs to town 40%, scum 50%, paragon 30%, which seems about right to me (the Paragons now have a very strong incentive to get people to lynch scum D1).

I also think it might be interesting to not give the Paragons a vote D1, so that town's 40% win chance is entirely in their own hands.
Your numbers have to be off (paragon win increasing would by definition decrease scum win %). I'll look at it in a little bit to see where.

Definitely like the idea of stumping the Paragons, which means there could be any number of them for no balance change. I don't think the second chance is necessary for them (it's supposed to be hard, I think) but it doesn't ruin the setup. Hell, you could even do a guess till you're right sort of thing where winning is completely subjective and the point remains as it is.
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Post Post #74 (isolation #12) » Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:49 am

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Looks like your initial numbers are right. In the second group, scum should drop to 40%. Which... Seems pretty fair to me, honestly.

Edit: Paragon should also jump to 43.3%, I forgot to take into account the increase in the Town and Paragon winning rate. Which imo is too high for what's supposed to be a difficult role, but it completely fair if you don't want to make the Paragons have a harder time than everone else.
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Post Post #76 (isolation #13) » Fri Jan 25, 2019 12:30 pm

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?

They have twice as many chances to win when town has been lynched (2/6 compared to 1/6) which means scum has 4/6 instead of 5/6 chances to win in that case.

When scum is lynched they have 1/4 + 1/3 (which is ~58%).

Add in the weights (.4 for a scum lynch and .6 for a town lynch) and you get .4 v .4 v.43 Where the overlap of 23% is a joint town/Paragon win.
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Post Post #78 (isolation #14) » Fri Jan 25, 2019 2:59 pm

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Oh. In that case, please ignore the Jester behind the bedsheet. I am the great and powerful Oz! :oops:
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Post Post #80 (isolation #15) » Mon Jan 28, 2019 10:13 pm

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Post Post #86 (isolation #16) » Wed Feb 13, 2019 4:12 am

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I suggest that we use this thread during the marathon to announce games, similarly to the upcoming game announcements thread.

I'll probably run BoP Mafia tomorrow afternoon if anyone is interested.
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Post Post #95 (isolation #17) » Thu Feb 14, 2019 5:48 am

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viewtopic.php?f=24&t=78785

Burden of Proficiency mafia in ~4 hours. Hopefully we'll get enough peeps.
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Post Post #97 (isolation #18) » Thu Feb 14, 2019 10:54 am

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In post 3415, jjh927 wrote:What next for jjh927? Well, I have a dumb open setup idea that I didn't publish in case people mod metaed me for this game;

Spoiler: Currently Unnamed Open Setup Idea
2 mafia, who choose to be 1-shot framers, miller, or godfather. 7 town, who are either 1-shot framers, millers, or godfathers, with distribution depending on what the mafia picked to make 3 of each total in the game.+ 1 town rolecop and 1 town regular cop


Also a couple of ideas that are less effort than this game but still theme games. But I really shouldn't host any of them until I finish my dissertation.



Any guesses on the number of beans in the vegan bean chilli?

JJ wants to run this. Volunteer and pick a time, peeps!
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Post Post #108 (isolation #19) » Sun Feb 17, 2019 8:33 am

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I assume signups are open to everyone for as long as the thread remains open. If you have setups you specifically want tried post them (or links to them) here, otherwise head to the marathon queue!
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Post Post #113 (isolation #20) » Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:11 pm

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Overall, I think the setups tried went well.

8-ball and Marked for death seemed especially popular.

BoP was probably my favorite, although I may be biased.

Tough on crime (and probably every other setup with multiple vote mechanics) was not well suited to marathons and suffered from bad moderation on my part, but I'd like to see it in the open queue in the future.

Does anyone have thoughts on what setups worked/didn't?
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Post Post #119 (isolation #21) » Sat Feb 23, 2019 6:22 am

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In post 118, Something_Smart wrote:
In post 116, the worst wrote:I do think that the 6:9 half mast madness was a success, in several ways.
okay maybe it was impressive that we got that many players together for that long, but I have to point this out for anyone who's considering something similar in the future:

Never ever ever EVER
EVER
run a 15-player nightless marathon game
unless you really want to.
FTFY. And if I hadn't gotten exhausted and basically laid down in the middle of the road on D2 I wouldn't have had any problems with it.
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Post Post #122 (isolation #22) » Sat Feb 23, 2019 6:43 am

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In post 116, the worst wrote:My thoughts are that there's no harm in leaving this thread open for next time. If people feel that we were a little underconmunicated, that might be something I consider for next time - I really don't know how popular discord is on MS, but I'd be open to setting up a server for collaboration & numbers-wrangling in the future. If people are keen to push more into that 11-13p sweet spot, I think live external communication is a smart way to do it.
Honestly? I think perhaps changing the group to be non marathon exclusive might help, because to be honest most of the larger setups proposed here aren't well suited to marathons. I think the marathon aspect is super fun, but keeping the thread open year round and using it as a group where prospective players and mods can communicate about what games they'd like to see run would be even better. And besides, a lot of the player list for marathons might also be interested in non marathons, be they blitz or normal. :D

In post 117, T-Bone wrote:I'd be interested in seeing more too. The Open Queue doesn't have a lot of Mods waiting right now. If you can get a dedicated core of players to play through some opens, we can see some of these set ups in action. I'm very interested in expanding on the approved open set-up list this year. One of the ways we can look at doing that is testing certain set ups and playing them a couple of times.

Something to keep in mind.
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Post Post #123 (isolation #23) » Sat Feb 23, 2019 6:44 am

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In post 120, Something_Smart wrote:The game lasted 7 game days, 3 hours, and 60 pages... if it had gone to LYLO it could have lasted almost 6 hours.
So I'm hearing a prein for a 45p mountainous nightless setup, in marathon, of course.
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Post Post #125 (isolation #24) » Sat Feb 23, 2019 7:05 am

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:lol:
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Post Post #126 (isolation #25) » Sat Feb 23, 2019 7:24 am

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viewtopic.php?p=10756374#p10756374 - Burden of Proficiency, coming soon to a Micro Queue somewhere else!

viewtopic.php?p=10756293#p10756293 - Panic Room! Come play with us in the non marathon Open Queue soon. Almost as good as the marathon version!
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Post Post #129 (isolation #26) » Sat Feb 23, 2019 9:25 am

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Given nightless is usually massively townsided, I'd guess 34:11 is probably close to right.

Make it a Bad at Mafia game and you could probably say 37:8.
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Post Post #137 (isolation #27) » Wed May 08, 2019 10:59 am

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Nightless 40 person mountainous.

Also, I strongly recommend against modding games that require multiple types of VCs.
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Post Post #139 (isolation #28) » Wed May 08, 2019 11:11 am

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p much, yeah. :lol:

I resolved night actions, but she did basically all of the VCs.
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Post Post #141 (isolation #29) » Wed May 08, 2019 11:25 am

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There's always room for more. Basically, this is a group where you can request specific opens be run during marathon and sound out interest.

I'll probably run at least something. Not sure what my schedule looks like atm though.
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Post Post #145 (isolation #30) » Wed May 08, 2019 1:30 pm

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Most of the April Challenge thread is good fodder for fast Large setups.
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Post Post #146 (isolation #31) » Wed May 08, 2019 1:31 pm

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To clarify, I'd be willing to run most of the April Challenge thread as Marathons if there was sufficient interest.
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Post Post #152 (isolation #32) » Wed May 08, 2019 2:58 pm

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Nah, just fantasy.
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Post Post #156 (isolation #33) » Wed May 08, 2019 3:23 pm

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Add Marked For Death. That one was hella popular last time.
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Post Post #162 (isolation #34) » Thu May 09, 2019 10:25 am

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In post 160, themilkcartonkid wrote:I'd be interested to play an open version of innocent evil with daychat
The numbers are VERY off on that setup, btw. Not sure how I managed it (simplest guess would be my original simulation allowed players to simply lynch the same person over and over again), but it actually had like an 85% town EV as run. 9v4 has ~66%, while 10v3 has ~44%. 8v3 is 52%. 5v2 is 43%.

So:

Scaling, best possible EV at each player number:

5p: 3v2 60% town EV.
6p: 4v2 50% town EV.
7p: 5v2 43% town EV.
8p: 6v2 38% town EV.
9p: 6v3 62% town EV.
10p: 7v3 56% town EV.
11p: 8v3 52% town EV.
12p: 9v3 48% town EV.
13p: 10v3 44% town EV.

Adding a scum and changing to Nightstart doesn't change those numbers at all. 7p, 11p and 13p stand out as the most playable numbers. (And of course the relevant Night start shifts.)

Also, I apologize for not catching my number flub before the game, but it makes the almost scumwin WAY more impressive.
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Post Post #166 (isolation #35) » Mon May 13, 2019 3:46 pm

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Should scale up pretty well, but honestly I'm not sure how well it'll scale down, so it's probably best for a middle of the day setup.
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Post Post #167 (isolation #36) » Mon May 13, 2019 3:47 pm

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(This is me, agreeing that that should totally be run)
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Post Post #170 (isolation #37) » Fri May 17, 2019 11:16 am

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In post 168, themilkcartonkid wrote:That game needs a voting stage at the beginning, I think it was a rough start. Maybe vote on the first forked player and go from there
I'd play it with that change, but disagree that it's necessary. Especially in a marathon, getting people flipped fast isn't going to be too hard to deal with.
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Post Post #172 (isolation #38) » Fri May 17, 2019 12:53 pm

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TIL urap lives a week in the future.
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