[SETUP]Chain Reaction

[mhsmith0]

It's slightly modified popcorn mafia essentially, which appears to be roughly balanced at 7 town 4 scum.

[mhsmith0]

In general, towns do slightly better than expected values based on random lynches/investigations/night actions. In games where scum cannot use factional kill abilities to snuff out town that are problems (good reads, consensus town, etc) the difference generally seems to go up substantially.

FWIW, the FakeGod large dance theme games have been a very notable exception to this rule. Based on playing in one and skimming through another, I would say that this is a combination of:

1) towns foolishly using their suicide abilities in many situations where it is wildly sub-optimal to do so
2) towns being exceptionally bad at using private topic neighborhoods to read people (an aspect of play that has also popped up repeatedly in mini normal results as well, as scum neighbors/neighborizers have worked incredibly well, while all town hoods do not seem to be especially good at recognizing each other)

[mhsmith0]

Two scum survived the last one actually.