You don't need a reviewerDavsto wrote:Don't you still need one for Normals in this queue?
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in advancefor Normals. If you /in with a Normal, the list mod will find reviewers for you, and they'll have to approve the game as Normal whether you got it reviewed separately or not. (Source: I'm one of the reviewers in question.)scum· scam · seam · team · term · tern · torn ·town-
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Once the game reaches 6p for any reason, Rarefaction starts immediately and there are no more night phases from then on. This happens even if the reason that Rarefaction started was that a townie was lynched at 5:2, even though in a normal game scum would get a kill at that point.scum· scam · seam · team · term · tern · torn ·town-
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I see there are some new players in my game (Grey Flag Nightless), so I'll just explain how this works for their benefit:
First of all, I'll have to wait for Marquis to confirm the playerlist. Then I'll create a thread for the game, containing detailed information about the setup, rules, etc.. (These steps depend on when Marquis and I can be online, so they might be very quick or they might take a day or too.) The game mostly takes place in the game thread too, but to start with the thread will be locked. Once the thread's been created I'll send each player a PM letting them know what their role is, and giving a link to the game thread; you'll have to reply to the PM to let me know that you've read it and you're ready to play, and once everyone or almost everyone has responded, I'll unlock the thread and the game will start.
Thanks for filling my game! I hope you enjoy it.scum· scam · seam · team · term · tern · torn ·town-
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Err, that setup is broken. There's likely a guaranteed town win, although I haven't found one yet; I have, however, found a strategy that gives town 94.4% EV, which is still way too high.
EDIT: Two possible fixes:
(Less favoured but would still work) Increase the number of paths town has to survive to 6, rather than 5. This is probably still somewhat townsided, but not by as much, and also has the disadvantage that luck is probably more important than scumhunting.
(My preferred option) Increase the number of paths town has to survive to 7, but place a bias on the randomizer between paths (I suggest that each day, you announce two paths, one with a 70% chance of being the safe path, and one which is safe only the other 30% of the time). This should have more scumhunting involved than the previous option (because scum will have to decide if they're townread enough to lie about the 30% path being safe, and town will have to decide how many times they're going to ask for a second opinion). I'm not sure where the balance is but it isn't obviously broken. Note that in this version of the setup, a 2:2 or 1:1 endgame should not be an automatic scum win (town should have the chance to guess their way to the end of the setup even if they can't lynch anyone any more).scum· scam · seam · team · term · tern · torn ·town-
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/in Mislead
I'm pretty sure the setup is still broken but at this point I'd prefer to break it in-game. I'd advise only signing up if you're comfortable with playing to breaking strategies, because aiming to play the setup "normally" is highly likely to lead to a scum win.scum· scam · seam · team · term · tern · torn ·town-
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I've spent the last two days trying to break it, including asking FakeGod a bunch of rules questions.
The hard part is that identifying the scum doesn't win the game for town; even if you lynch them both, you still need a townie to survive to D7 to win. This pretty much rules out Zyf's strategy because although it's good at getting rid of scum, it leads to the remaining group of townies being too small to finish.scum· scam · seam · team · term · tern · torn ·town-
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Open games aren't restricted to the Open Queue. The Open Queue is mostly a place where new mods are assigned setups, in order to ensure there's a good supply of games in popular setups; sometimes those are micro-sized, sometimes they're larger. (It also handles mod requests for new/experimental/outside-rotation Open setups that are 10 players or larger and relatively mechanically normal and unflavoured. This doesn't happen very often.)In post 624, BTD6_maker wrote:/In 09:12. (Should it be in this queue, or the Open?)
Other places where they can be run include this Micro queue, and the Theme queues, if they fit the requirements of the queue. For this queue, the game needs to have 9 players or less. For the Theme queues, the game needs to be mechanically unusual or heavily flavoured (and the right size to fit the queue). Neither of these requirements specifies anything about Closed vs. Open, and Open games are pretty common in this queue.scum· scam · seam · team · term · tern · torn ·town-
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When a new game enters signups, there's often a flurry of signups into it from people who were waiting for it to reach the top of the queue.
After a while, signups into games aren't from people who were eagerly anticipating them (because those people would have signed up earlier), but from people who feel like playing a game and think that that game looks interesting. Therefore, you can expect the rate to slow down a bit.scum· scam · seam · team · term · tern · torn ·town-
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For people who want to see the rules in a little more of a readable form, I made a wiki page for the setup: Desperation Dayscum· scam · seam · team · term · tern · torn ·town-
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It's OK if it doesn't fill; I'm mostly /in-ning with simple Opens back to back to help fill the mod queue (due to the lack of mods at the moment).
If players don't want to play it now, I'll try again later, and (if the mod shortage continues) put a different setup into the queue in the meantime to prevent the queue emptying.
(Of course, if the queue's having problems finding modsandit's having problems finding players, it might be worth discussing the future of the queue.)scum· scam · seam · team · term · tern · torn ·town-
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If it doesn't fill, I'll put a substantially different setup into the queue (and players in this one are free to /in again once it comes to the front, but don't have to). There's not much point running a setup if players don't want to play it, and if the players who want to play it aren't available right now, it's better to run it later rather than sooner. Likewise, if players want to hydra, they'll probably have more fun hydra-ing in this or a different game, than they will playing this game solo.scum· scam · seam · team · term · tern · torn ·town-
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With respect to the mod shortage, my problem is that there's a setup people want me to run and that I really want to run, but I'm having technical difficulties that might prevent me moderating it to completion, and nobody wants that. I'd have /inned without much thought if not for that.
(I feel like I've been running back-to-back Micros recently to help keep the queue afloat, but on the other hand, I don'tminddoing that, so everyone comes out a winner I guess.)scum· scam · seam · team · term · tern · torn ·town-
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OK, screw it.
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Marquis, may I have permission to create PTs in order to get reviewing / role PMs / etc. set up ahead of time? (I technically have PT creation access anyway from Micro 643, but am unclear on whether I'm allowed to use it for an unrelated purpose without permission.)scum· scam · seam · team · term · tern · torn ·town-
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No pre-ins for my game.
A backup moderator for a Micro would require 1 completed game of moderation experience, so unfortunately, you don't qualify. Thanks for offering, though.
Note to players: this game will have experimental activity/deadline rules; each player will have points that they can spend to control the pace of the game via adjusting deadlines and prod timers. As always with experimental components of setups, there's a chance that something could go horribly wrong, although I don't see why it would.scum· scam · seam · team · term · tern · torn ·town-
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I don't think that game counts as Mafia. No player has an incentive to act any differently from any other player – scum doesn't have a buddy to protect, so can simply vote as if town – and with nothing in the posts but votes, there's no way to read them using scumreads that work based on words rather than actions. In other words, you've designed a game that makes scumhunting completely impossible, so the result will effectively be decided at random or as a popularity contest.scum· scam · seam · team · term · tern · torn ·town
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