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it's way late for me so i don't have time for full thoughts but basically: assimilation mechanic never came into play because town stomped from very early on, unfortunate but sometimes thats the way it goes. there are obvious obstacles to the mechanic of scum jumping to a new account that make it tricky/intimidating to use, some of these can be compensated for but if i ran a game like this again i'd have to clarify things/add mechanics to make assimilation more favorable. for an initial run of the setup i wanted to make it reasonably simple, though. had idea for some complex item based mechanics but cut them down to make something more familiar to most players. maybe more tomorrow.free crypto- Bennings~
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fun game!! i wish the assimilation mechanic did get a chance to be used but it still had some influence, it was fun preparing for the possibility and theorizing about who might try to use it, and there was at least a bit of d2 paranoia
i think its probably better (and more fun) if as few people as possible are easily identifiable as their mains, and so everything is confined to only this game rather than outside meta getting brought in, but its kinda unavoidable when most people who play here know each other lol- Freedom
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Tbh I didn't try to tell people who I was, but since I didn't actively try toIn post 980, fireisredsir wrote:i think its probably better (and more fun) if as few people as possible are easily identifiable as their mains, and so everything is confined to only this game rather than outside meta getting brought in, but its kinda unavoidable when most people who play here know each other lolmaskit, and my style is literally the most unique thing on mafiascum (plurality helps a lot in that regard ), I legit didn't bother submitting N1 picks specifically because I knew I couldn't win.
(Basically, I didn't actively try to make people know it was me, but I didn't feel like trying to hide it was me, so I just posted, and because I just posted, I did the things I always do. Which is, well--uniquely me.)
I appreciate the carry from people ignoring my wrong setup spec, getting a guilty, and telling me who to shoot tho. All I really had to do was be a PR and be able to be me convincingly so.- Freedom
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Btw on the setup:
I feel like this setup would be balanced if it was not known the Things had no power roles, but knowing that every power role had to be town, I do think the setup was townsided, here.
For it to not be, assimilation needed to be more viable than it actually was. I thought that we had only three power roles--the 1x cop, the 1x "messenger" (friendly neighbor), and the 1x vig--because that was three conftown, and that wemaybehad room for like a 1x doctor (or as it turned out, x-shot bodyguard).
With the knowledge that Things had no PRs, that's about the level I'd expect for town power, but we had another investigative on top of that.
If we didn't have the knowledge of Things not having PRs, then I think the town has the perfect level of town power; this setup would be close to the balanced range in a mini normal, for instance. The lack of flips and Things having the assimilation mechanic would aid the scum, as would the lack of knowing for sure some things.
But imo, it needed to be one of the two, not both.
We needed either fewer PRs with the knowledge we had, or the number of PRs with less knowledge than we had.
That said, obviously, scum elimination with scum guilty and town being right on the third meant scum got a disproportionately bad start, and I think the win wasmostlyfrom good play, but I def think it was townsided at least somewhat.- mastina
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I get that a lot, it seems every time I play an anon alt game people assume I'm either Titus or MathBlade, usually MathBlade.In post 983, Freedom wrote:TBH I didn't figure you out until Fuchs pointed out your use of . (I thought that you were Math.)- Meuh
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This was a ton of fun, ty peta
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Well played town!
I do agree with mastina that the setup as is is probably a tad townsided but the D1 lim and cop guilty on me meant we were screwed anyhow so it was moot.
I was really looking forward to assimilating someone N2 and the challenge of faking their post style so being cop guiltied really sucked!
I also enjoyed the lack of meta discussion. I recognised a couple of players but don't play often enough to recognise most.
An idea I had (maybe not a good idea) for a variation on this if you want to up the paranoia even more:
2-3 scum (randomly determined)
Once per game, Things can conceal the alignment of the day flip
The game continues if the final Thing is limmed
Town win if they correctly vote for "there are no more things"
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ayyy, gg. i had a "oh no." moment when i saw the day 3 pm, lol
does this mean no diary entry? :<I will straight up disregard all reason if you have a PR dream again. You can come back and be like, “I dreamt that Locke is a N2 Bulletproof Multitasking Cop and Self-Targeting Doctor,” and I will go, “Okay, Locke kill it is then.”~M- skitter30
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Now i really want to know who everyone was lolShowHiatus once more.
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It's mentioned in all of the role pms that got posted earlier!In post 991, skitter30 wrote:Now i really want to know who everyone was lol- Datisi
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like right here
god so many of my alt guesses were bad lolI will straight up disregard all reason if you have a PR dream again. You can come back and be like, “I dreamt that Locke is a N2 Bulletproof Multitasking Cop and Self-Targeting Doctor,” and I will go, “Okay, Locke kill it is then.”~M- skitter30
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I missed that, ty! :)
I put so much effort into, like, capital letters and normal punctuation lolShowHiatus once more.
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i have been yelling at peta on discord about this exact issue loleIn post 995, Ydrasse wrote:My brain as it turns out gets unhappy trying to read games with similar icons but garry 2 did the job well ! ty for modding and ggI will straight up disregard all reason if you have a PR dream again. You can come back and be like, “I dreamt that Locke is a N2 Bulletproof Multitasking Cop and Self-Targeting Doctor,” and I will go, “Okay, Locke kill it is then.”~M- PookyTheMagicalBear
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I was basically re-reading the game in iso mode because all the avvies blurred together >.>In post 996, Datisi wrote:
i have been yelling at peta on discord about this exact issue loleIn post 995, Ydrasse wrote:My brain as it turns out gets unhappy trying to read games with similar icons but garry 2 did the job well ! ty for modding and gg
gg thanks for modding Peta!
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Funny thingIn post 982, mastina wrote:
Tbh I didn't try to tell people who I was, but since I didn't actively try toIn post 980, fireisredsir wrote:i think its probably better (and more fun) if as few people as possible are easily identifiable as their mains, and so everything is confined to only this game rather than outside meta getting brought in, but its kinda unavoidable when most people who play here know each other lolmaskit, and my style is literally the most unique thing on mafiascum (plurality helps a lot in that regard ), I legit didn't bother submitting N1 picks specifically because I knew I couldn't win.
(Basically, I didn't actively try to make people know it was me, but I didn't feel like trying to hide it was me, so I just posted, and because I just posted, I did the things I always do. Which is, well--uniquely me.)
I appreciate the carry from people ignoring my wrong setup spec, getting a guilty, and telling me who to shoot tho. All I really had to do was be a PR and be able to be me convincingly so.
I typed up a message for the night 1 main guesses (but forgot to send it )
You were The Only One that I actually thought I knew.
Every other one I was just guessing names hoping for the 1 pointer. - Lukewarm
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