Everyone except Tea: What do you think of Tea's suggestion about the cop thing?
That was a suggestion? I thought it was just a strategy that he'd used before. At any rate it seems to require cops with questionable sanities and a doctor if I read that right. Neither of which we have.
Persus13: You didn't actually comment on Tea's idea, which is that everyone claims a (fake or real) cop result every day so that if the cop is ever nightkilled or lynched, their results will be immediately made public knowledge. I specifically asked in the post three above yours what everyone thought of it.
Everyone: From your own personal experience from various places and using your own judgement, how balanced do you believe this game to be? Why do you say that?
You posted after I had already started working on that post, so I missed it. Then I misunderstood his strategy, and that's actually a pretty good idea. How a Jailkeeper factor into that would be interesting.
I believe that BMs tend to be Mafia sided, because of the scum IC position, possibility of ICs being scum, beginner's finding their scumhunting legs, and ICs more focused on teaching about stuff than hunting scum. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily, because a game stacked slightly towards Mafia can raise the stakes a little.
And asking someone what role they like isn't really rolefishing.
I think it is because it gets people talking about differences in how they will play depending on what town role they have, which seems to help scum find power roles without providing enough benefit to the town to offset that, in this setup. I have often used knowledge of whether people prefer playing as a particular alignment to help me read them though, so I understand the value of that more.
Ah, I see where you are coming from now. I've never used people's favorite alignments as a way of figuring out who they are. It's probably a better strategy in RL Mafia because you can see people grin randomly.
Am I posting too much? I don't want to make the thread annoying for people to read but I am eager to get to the point where people stop saying there's not much to go on.
You are posting fine. More is only bad if you make a large post with barely anything worthwhile to say.
I'm not trying to insinuate that people would intentionally abuse their IC status but that I am unsure how balancing their role as an IC and their role in the game works. I will try to just let things play out tho.
ICs can be really hard to get a bead on their alignment mainly because of their focus on teaching. Talking with them and trying to get their input on the actual game is a good way to get them off teacher mode and into game-playing mode.
Perseus I am convinced I was day killed because I was disliked actually. It affirmed certain truths. Like people like things the way they like them. I'd rather not talk about it if that's okay with you. Doesn't serve any actual purpose this game except to remind people how I play, which I am trying to change. I'm fine answering questions but curiosities seem to hold up the game.
Okay, I don't think you were killed because you personally were disliked but because your playstyle was disliked (and Deathsword's kind of known for going after newish players when they make mistakes).
I do think some are too forgiving or not paranoid enough.
I can definitely agree with this, but sometimes being too paranoid can be a block though, and being unforgiving can lead to more dead town than scum. There's a fine balance that needs to be walked.
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