I think this and S3 are the two most unbalanced Supernaturals ever. Town's record is 1 for 3 now right?
Heck no. It's 1 Town win out of 6 games now.
Win/draw record for all the Supernaturals stands Thusly:
17% Town win 1/6 (S1, town faced werewolves who appeared as a normal killing Scumteam)
50% Scum win 3/6 (2nd game, had a killing 'cult' that just happened not to have a converter role; S3 kill-less conversion cult who converted the 3rd party killer N1; S6 killing cult with 1 converter role and 1 priest [priest not used - might have ressed something very anti-Scum!]; no third party roles but one Town killing role, converted N1)
17% SK win 1/6 (4th game, SK was introduced through rez, game actually started with no set killing roles, though there was a Devil - and that SK beat both Town and Cult -despite the handicap of having been resurrected-, go go superpowered Solifuge! This win really does show that 'anything can happen' in a Supernatural game)
17% 'Draw' 1/6 (S5, Town faced werewolves who appeared as a normal killing Scumteam)
Far as our game goes, raw starting statistics wise, this isn't crazy bad - we started with a moderately high Scum percentage - 27.3 % - but we also started with the highest yet Town percentage (barely) - 72.7%.
With 3 out of 11 Scum to start, I don't think that's nuts. Keep in mind, Meph has said he knows before game starts what each priest will rez as - that's only random to -us-. We know what NQT ressed Nerjin as - but if -Caz- had ressed anyone it's possible that Scum would have lost, because there may be a Scum-killer that can come from a Scum priest's failed rez for all we know. I am not ready to say we almost faced a total of 5 Scum, if only Caz had ressed Nerjin instead of NQT. I'm even ready to suggest that part of the reason Town lost was that Scum failled to use their rez successfully (it's possible - think of what Nerjin's personality as a player might have done if he'd ressed to have some utterly awesome and clearly, provably Scum-killing power - that might have been enough to motivate even him to try and succeed instead of just sit and wait.
It's true though that with only Town targets to pick from the Scum conversion could not have failed. The game -could- have gone quite differently, but it would have almost required us to lynch Tiruin D1 or for Toaster to have picked her for a kill N1.
I'm not ready to call this game, or even the set up of this game fair or unfair. I don't even want to discuss that myself very much (oh ho! That must mean the game's fairness IS Scum ;p)
Does anyone here play Mafia 'because it's fun'? Or 'because it's fair'? I play it because it's fascinating, and S games are extra good at fascinating me, at least so far. I play it to practice other skills. I do not see how Mafia can possibly be 'fun' for anyone. Regardless, I am 'highly interested' in playing more Supernatural games, with or without a discussion of 'is it a fair game'. And it's not because I'm hoping to get a Scum role next time. I'm thinking I'm going to be ticked off when I get my Scum roles each time. 'Drat, I've got to play easy mode. My win's an of course, and if I lose I clearly mucked up'.
So far, there's two possible 'real Scum tells' to my perception - 'Middle of the line player', and 'I actually don't want to interact with you'.
That sounds pretty good, go with that.
*Snorts with amusement*. Oh yeah. I can see it now. D1, here goes Imp's claim "X must be Scum because I think they're not Scum and I don't want to talk to them anymore".
At least I -finally- have a finished and thus discussable game to point back to and say 'but but but but! No really guys, my judgement
is that bad! It's so
reliably bad that it is actually an accurate metric if you adjust for its incorrect calibration!'
Still, you guys had a warlock! Hoo boy! That sure gave us a run for our money!
Shame on you,
Max. Defend that idea for me. Here's what I see: Warlocks talk to the dead, who don't have to tell them anything - and can only tell them what's in their own PMs or what that dead player thinks.
The victims of the Scum kill and the Vig kill - their PMs are information free, as far as identity of the killer went. Even if someone told me all of those death PMs word for word, I -still- would have had no idea who was Scum or Vig.
So explain what you believe what 'gave you a run for your money' by us having a Warlock?