Cookie Thread Act 1: A Cookie in Time

Make them a clown, ultimate entertainer or something, I am so down fo rthis

it’s canon now

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what are the main problems with the dr format
i wanna have a swing

I think the murders being shitty plans is true to canon. there’s an occasional exception but a lot of the plans are fundamentally flawed

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its danganronpa

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alright the short version

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ok do you want the super short version

i have nothing scheduled for the next 3 hours

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I have class in 45 minutes

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fine
lets ball

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so more like 25 minutes since walking

3 categories of problem:

  • material engagement
  • main gameplay loop
  • viability of killing

first refers to engaging people with the game
we do this as hosts by giving them stuff to do
this is usually:

  • exploration
  • puzzles

the rewards are lore and items usually

despite giving out obscenely powerful items on occasion, these ‘gameplay loop’ rewards never go towards…

The Gameplay Loop

The game is split into daily life → deadly life → trial

you only gain meaningful progress whenever somebody decides to go through with a murder plan and kill someone
this doesn’t combine well with the first category since the exploration / puzzles are so fundamentally polar opposite for people’s enjoyment than the killing portion

and even if they are interested and engaged with all the game’s facets, you run into

Viability of Killing

It’s so so fucking easy to win a trial as a participant
It’s not a surprise that the consistent times that blackeneds have won with are due to:

  • Modbias and arguably bastard hosting
  • Incredibly overpowered mechanics that were impossible to predict
  • Poison, which leaves little information and massively obfuscates the time of the crime

if you are rational and want to win, you never kill

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not to mention in dr3 the fact that like half of the game decided to let me win lol

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Does not count

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fair

You have a scumteam

since its more playerbased i guess

I have floated the idea of having several MM-adjacent players

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