KittyTacky's Mini Normal Review, May 2022

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ego

about to have class so will get to this later today

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ok i lied my class is in 10 minutes

i think this is actually... pretty townsided? i know i might be biased, but like. the two vigilantes are almost always going to be confirmed town just by virtue of claims and shots. the traffic analyst is Almost a cop - the 1-shot neighbourizer can maybe make him get a false guilty or save a partner from getting hard-guiltied, but it seems like more often than not there's just going to be a few clears from the traffic analyst as well.

the game can "turn balanced" if the vigilantes shoot especially poorly, which is almost always the case with vigilante games anyway, doubly so when there's two vigilantes, but yeah. i guess my verdict is unhealthily swingy, somewhat scumsided.

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well, i was about to say i do feel it's townsided, but that i was willing to go with it if implo thought it's fine. so.

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i don't Love It, but with the core idea being what it is, dunno if i will ever love it. so sure, novice ta (and the informed being adjusted accordingly) is fine with me.

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vigilante is a high swing role. compulsive vigilante and a backup for it doubly so. a traffic analyst here either gets alignemnt-accurate or worthless results, depending on whether mafia is able to galaxy brain the usage of the neighbourizer or not. and a tracker is also able to get hard guilties.

like, most of normal games have swing as it's almost unavoidable. by having multiple high-swing power roles, this game cranks it up a lot. but like, as said, neither a certain amount of swinginess or a reviewer's liking is required for a setup to pass.

the role pm of the neighbourizer is wrong. there's a town novice traffic analyst in the game.

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i'd prefer if you fixed it now. also i need to see the investigation results for all roles.

your role pm's don't specify how to confirm, though i don't think that's a requirement, just letting you know.

don't forget to publicly announce daytalk + multitasking.

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datisi, stop forgetting to reply to threads you've already opened challenge (100% impossible)

anyway. in theory, i would prefer for backup compulsive vig's "btw you need to submit a list of people now that a compulsive vig has died" to be in a separate pm and not included in the role pm, since it being in the role pm kind of implies there *is* a compulsive vig in the game. or at least, the players might interpret it that way.

however, since i don't recall there being precedent over this sort of thing, and as long as you say that "they'd be required to submit a list for their backup compulsive action even if there's no actual compulsive role in the game" if someone asks, it shouldn't be a problem.

/pass

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maybe it's my own confbias, but i feel that's even worse >.> i'd keep it as is, maybe ask implo if you wanna be sure.