Meggas: if you had to design a power role to completely balance the cult in this game, what would it be?
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single power role in
this game? I don't know any of the power roles in this game, so there's really no way I can answer that question from a game balance perspective. This game could already be perfectly balanced for all I know.
But, if you are just talking about cult games in general, I suppose I would design the following role:
One-Shot Cult Surveyer-At any point during the Day time, you can pm the mod the names of up to 3 players. The mod will pm you back a number. This number indicates how many of those players are cult-aligned. You can use this ability once per game.
Before this game started, I had a strategy for if I started as the cult leader, which would involve fake claiming this imaginary role. I would have done the following:
1. At the beginning of Day 1, I would pick 3 players to interrogate heavily.
2. I would then try to get the most suspicious of those three lynched.
3. If people were suspicious of my behavior or weren't willing to go along with lynching that suspicious person, I would fake claim One-Shot Cult Surveyer, identify these 3 players as the ones I surveyed, and tell everyone that 1 of them is a cult member.
4. Hopefully with the boost from my fake role claim, I would get that person lynched (who would obviously be revealed as town)
5. During Night 1, I would recruit whichever player seems most likely to be a power role.
6. During Day 2, I would heavily interrogate the two remaining "surveyed" people and lead a lynch on one of them, killing another townie.
7. During Night 2, I would recruit another potential power role or whichever player is most likely to turn against me.
8. During Day 3, I would lead a lynch against the remaining "surveyed" person. I would tell one of my cult allies to suspiciously defend this person, seemingly out of nowhere. Hopefully, people will recognize my ally as a cult member trying to protect his leader. Then they'll lynch the final "surveyed" person, assuring my victory.
Of course, this plan would have failed horribly if any power roles like Detective, Trackers, or Watchers decided to target me. For this plan to work, I also wouldn't be able to recruit the 3 people I targeted, so if one of them had a threatening power role, that would spell my doom. It would have been fun if it succeeded though.
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