[CHALLENGE] October Challenge

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tempted to just submit sliding scale mafia but I should probably put in even an iota of effort

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Highly Metagame Based Setup

3 Mafiosi

10 Townies

Day 1 happens as normal. Night 1 happens as normal, but everyone must compulsively choose one of the four colors:

Red

,

Yellow

,

Green

, or

Blue

.

Colors are split into two categories,

warm

/

cool

and

lime

/

purple

.

Red

is considered to be

warm

and

purple

.

Yellow

is considered to be

warm

and

lime

.

Green

is considered to be

cool

and

lime

.

Blue

is considered to be

cool

and

purple

.

If only one person chooses a color, they will be given a rare power based on the color categories.

If exactly two people choose a color, they will be given a common power based on the color categories.

If three or more people choose a color, they will stay vanilla.

An example power is Tracker/Doctor, awarded to the one player picking

Red

. A Tracker/Doctor can choose to act as a Tracker or Doctor, but once that is chosen it will be locked in, a Tracker/Doctor that has acted as a Tracker can only act as a Tracker.

Rare power halves:

Warm

- Tracker

Cool

- Role Cop (sees both powers and what is chosen)

Lime

- Roleblocker

Purple

- Doctor

Common power halves:

Warm

- Kill Checker (a checker that is affected by protective abilities)

Cool

- Mailman

Lime

- Weak Bodyguard

Purple

- Neighbor

Players flip with their powers, but not what is chosen.

A setup not checked for balance or playability, and probably just a meme setup.

[TemporalLich]

I have a feeling that this setup would generally degenerate to mountainous 10-3 or worse as town can't really coordinate a solid plan. If town does coordinate a plan (e.g.: everyone except this one trusted player choose this color), mafia have enough people to easily subvert the plan (at least when none of them are executed day 1.) So I'd imagine town's best strategy is to choose their color randomly, but with a weighted distribution. (Town doesn't want to pick a uniform distribution because then it'll average out to around four people picking each color.) Once more, town can't really coordinate the weighting distribution. Mafia's strategy here is probably much easier: have each mafia choose a different color. It maximizes the chances they snag a PR and/or deny town a PR. I don't really see a scenario where this setup comes close to balanced; even if town snags a PR or two, that's still far short of the typical power level in closed 10-3 normals. Granted, this setup is semi-open in a way, but I still imagine it balancing more like a closed setup than an open setup.

I can't really fix that problem without resorting to using a Mafia Traitor, which is not allowed by the challenge rules.

Yeah, I was aiming for the typical 13 player Normal game level of balance.

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Highly Metagame Based Setup v2

3 Mafiosi

10 Townies

Day 1 happens as normal. Night 1 happens as normal, but everyone must compulsively choose one of the six colors:

Red

,

Yellow

,

Green

,

Blue

,

White

, or

Black

.

Colors are split into two categories,

warm

/

cool

/

neutral

and

bright

/

dark

.

Red

is considered to be

warm

and

dark

.

Yellow

is considered to be

warm

and

bright

.

Green

is considered to be

cool

and

bright

.

Blue

is considered to be

cool

and

dark

.

White

is considered to be

neutral

and

bright

.

Black

is considered to be

neutral

and

dark

.

If only one person chooses a color, they will be given a rare power based on the color categories.

If exactly two people choose a color, they will be given a common power based on the color categories.

If three or more people choose a color, they will stay vanilla.

An example power is Tracker/Doctor, awarded to the one player picking

Red

. A Tracker/Doctor can choose to act as a Tracker or Doctor, but once that is chosen it will be locked in, a Tracker/Doctor that has acted as a Tracker can only act as a Tracker.

Rare power halves:

Warm

- Tracker

Cool

- Role Cop (sees both powers and what is chosen)

Neutral

- Neapolitan

Bright

- Roleblocker

Dark

- Doctor

Common power halves:

Warm

- Kill Checker (a checker that is affected by protective abilities)

Cool

- Mailman

Neutral

- Voyeur

Bright

- Weak Bodyguard

Dark

- Neighbor (may choose to be added to the Neighbor PT at any time as their power)

Players flip with their powers, but not what is chosen.

All PTs have daytalk.

With 6 colors now.

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A Tracker/Doctor for example will flip as such, but what power was chosen will not be in the flip. (It will not be public info that said Tracker/Doctor chose to act as a Tracker)

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I missed the vote window