RadioScum (Thread 2.0) - Faraday needs to suck more

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Reck, get the download link up.

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Adding another killing role undermines a nifty feature of the Armed Doc - you should never have to worry about evens and odds. Doc protect -> even, vig -> back to odds.

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Silly people actually modding normals.

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Screw you, Reck. Zindy rocks.

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OMG CDB

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I just see "RVS" as a logical expression of the fact that you should always be voting someone if possible. So there's no reason to think as a separate stage and there's even less reason to unvote after.

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Nope!

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That reminds me - it probably should've been called something like a priority move instead of an insured move. I'm pretty sure that's where the confusion came from (and why Mina considered that interaction counterintuitive) and didn't reflect usage.

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fun.'s live performance of Radio Gaga was recorded in Birmingham.

That changes everything.

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Oh hey, I'm home exactly in time for this.

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Miller without cop seems fairly common of late.

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Well, no, not all that much currently.

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If you can't fake your town play, see it as a challenge, not as a reason to undermine your town play.

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I can totally read Channel as scum.

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Motherless godless whores.

(I approve of the proposal.)

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I'm not really sure where the idea came from that each faction should have differing odds of winning. I think the idea of balance means that Town and Mafia start out on equal footing. Is this not the main objective of balancing?

Now, I don't think that it's fair, if there exists a third party, that each of three factions has an equal chance. However, giving one faction (even just a 1p faction, like SK) a lesser chance of winning seems, on the face of it, unfair.

I don't know how to solve this.

There's nothing inherently unfair about a faction having a smaller chance of winning. We join and play games to have fun, not to win. Winning is generally fun and losing due to the set-up is generally unfun, which is why balance is important. Fairness doesn't enter into it. SKs have fun, thus there is no problem.

(Game's also not symmetric with regards to the factions - town really is the important faction when it comes to making the game work as it should which is why e.g. I advocate a 40-30-30 in win percentages in games with 2 proper scum groups.)

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I got caught N0 as an SK once and nightkilled N1. Stuff like that can happen to any role - I'm not going to argue day-vig isn't a hella fun role just because I got nightkilled N0 both times I drew it.

(My other SK game wasn't much better - I got endgamed without ever getting a kill off, just to finish my sap story.)

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Yeah, but people who listened live would also download it.

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- Usually, out of game communication is a big no-no...but should it be?

Yes.

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Is your argument "there isn't enough clique-forming taking place"?

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Is your argument "mafiascum is a magical place, so it won't suffer from the problems we see in sites that do allow unfettered out-of-thread talk"?

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Yeah, I mean, she's preparing a Breaking Dawn game, right?

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I remember Face to Face (invitational Large Normal 3 years ago) fondly.