RH9's Micro Normal Review, March 2022

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i think this setup would be close to balanced in the one scenario where (1) everyone believes the informed townie claims and (2) scum doesn't claim a power role. in that scenario, the two informed townies are kind-of-masons, and the game would be close to passable range. (i say close since they're still weaker than a pair of masons since they cannot communicate with each other, but anyway.)

however, i think that exact scenario is very unlikely to happen.

the information received on n1 and n2 is very much useless since scum definitely isn't going to publicly claim encryptor, and due to the fact that there's only two scum, it can be argued that the daytalk is "lost" as soon as one of them dies anyway since the other scum doesn't have anyone to talk to.

the only scenario where that information isn't useless is if one of the informed townies claims their information, and then the other backs them up, saying they received the same information. however, if this happens on d3 (meaning before either of them gets the info that they're not the only informed townie), it could be argued that one of them is scum (since informed is more often a scum role than a town role anyway), and depending on the player base, they might be expecting weird interactions in setups. so it's not a clear exactly, and a smart fakeclaim form scum could get them killed.

so yeah, this feels way too weak for town. did you have any additional ideas for the setup?

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so that would be...

1x town informed mason
1x town mason encryptor
5x vanilla townie
vs
1x mafia encryptor
1x mafia encryptor enabler

i think this is passable. i'll wait to see if rc's fine with the setup first, though.

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Also, would I be permitted to change the word 'dead' to 'departed' and 'alive' to 'remaining'? (And change 'die' to 'depart'?)

(I mean when I run the game for the OP. I am aware that flavour isn't allowed in Role PMs.)

i believe this is permitted. the name of the day-vote-kill is up to the mod, i don't see any reason why this wouldn't be too.

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to my knowledge, no.

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i'm fairly certain that the way you name your "alive" and "dead" sections of players in the op is allowed to be changed to whatever you want (as long as it's clear what's what). i've run multiple games where i called the day-vote "yeet", and i haven't been banned yet.

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ah, i don't know exactly, i've always used the standard wincons. post the role pm's you want to use, we'll figure it out from there.

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mmm, the wording "depart" might be a bit confusing there. i'm erring on the side of preferring the original wording, but i'll let rc decide.

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alright, sorry, seems fine to me. just remember to keep the vocabulary consistent in all aspects of moderation, and should be fine.

i'll wait to see if rc has any more concerns.

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/pass

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considering you're using different language in the role pm's, i'd recommend using the same language across the whole game.

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ah, sure. as long as you use "exit the game" instead of "die" in the game as well.