RE: Murder By The Book - Day 2: The Invisible Man
03-31-2014, 11:39 PM
A game balanced for a single scum team will have a scum team who is no less than 1/4 of the playerbase (5 mafiosos), but no larger than 1/3 (7 mafiosos). The exact numbers will depend on the power roles, if any, each side has, and whether the team has peripheral members like a traitor.
Having an anti-town 3P is less plausible the closer you bump up against that upper 1/3 limit. Based on the plausibility of Granola's claim, that whole pregame recruitment think is skeevy as heck even if the game were balanced for what ultimately ended up being two 3rd parties. There's a lot of interactions there that could really fuck up town or scum based on who he precruited.
I don't think you can guarantee bodystackers'd pick off town first; after all, what they'll nominally need is one mafioso alive at end game, so they've already got four more than what they really need.
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Also Pala thanks for checking in, and I apologise for hitting a sore point with my jabs at you about activity. It hadn't registered that you're having computer trouble, and I'll keep that in mind from here on out.
Having an anti-town 3P is less plausible the closer you bump up against that upper 1/3 limit. Based on the plausibility of Granola's claim, that whole pregame recruitment think is skeevy as heck even if the game were balanced for what ultimately ended up being two 3rd parties. There's a lot of interactions there that could really fuck up town or scum based on who he precruited.
I don't think you can guarantee bodystackers'd pick off town first; after all, what they'll nominally need is one mafioso alive at end game, so they've already got four more than what they really need.
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Also Pala thanks for checking in, and I apologise for hitting a sore point with my jabs at you about activity. It hadn't registered that you're having computer trouble, and I'll keep that in mind from here on out.
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eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow