How do we not end up in a situation where every player nominates every other player to return to vanilla voting?
FUCK this one hits close to home too
Assuming the other two mechanics are not in effect: Nothing.
Which is basically my impression on BotFās nomination mechanic.
Iām gonna be honest, I wanna play this game solely to figure out what half these Systems are.
no, ur thinking of the guy who went to hell while playing overwatch (twomad)
The Systems are made public in the Signup OP.
With that in mind, would you still sign up for the game, or would you be satisfied in knowing what the Systems do, without having to sign up for the game?
yea
it was kinda wild not hearing about that guy for years, then hearing about tha the died, and THEN hearing all the shit he did
i regret to inform you all that i enjoy playing stall on pokemon showdown
dondozo is an awesome pokemon it feels like playing gen 2 snorlax against physical attackers and then if they find a good way to get a special attacker in you just have to switch
okay and you also just lose to ogerpon-wellspring
i think what i like about dondozo is that like. it is one of the least complex pokemon in terms of move selection. but thereāss a ton of subtleties in terms of how you switch with it
having said that, it is fairly obviously a pokemon that Should Not Exist, and is only like that in order to push its gimmick in doubles. this also makes it a hellish pokemon to play against in singles
it is however very funny to watch people get visibly confused by their lengthening response times as they forget how unaware works and canāt break through the rest-cure-sleep-talk dondozo with a +2 Zacian-Crowned in Ubers. No-one tell them please
i am going to reclaim the slur gaylord
Not really. While certain mechanics have sometimes ruined games, they have also made very memorable and enjoyable games. The 4th mafia game I played had the following:
- A cult, which I got converted to (despite rolestopping myself that night, partially to prevent conversion!)
- A lot of [dynamic balancing / host choices], for example:
- My cult leader (Spooky, if youāre curious) died at one point*, but was revived temporarily by an ability; because they were the first to solve some riddle by the host, they were given a reward. The agreed upon reward was that the revival would be extended permanently, but if I was executed, they would die as well. The host had not liked the way we solved the riddle (searching for his edited posts, IIRC) so he monkey-pawed it, giving me -4 votes required to hammer. And that applied even if I had no votes, so I would immediately be executed if the day started with 7 or less players.
- (By openly claiming cult, which everyone already correctly read me as due to my drastic WIM drop upon conversion, and claiming I was just playing to make the Aliens (mafia) lose, I got someone to suicide bomber me during the day.)
- Near the end, the host just gave a townie some sort of laser gun (killpower)
- My cult leader (Spooky, if youāre curious) died at one point*, but was revived temporarily by an ability; because they were the first to solve some riddle by the host, they were given a reward. The agreed upon reward was that the revival would be extended permanently, but if I was executed, they would die as well. The host had not liked the way we solved the riddle (searching for his edited posts, IIRC) so he monkey-pawed it, giving me -4 votes required to hammer. And that applied even if I had no votes, so I would immediately be executed if the day started with 7 or less players.
- There were probably more strange things; this was almost 4 years ago now. And it was Meme Mafia 3 for a reason.
*In this game, cult members would only die a day/night cycle after the cult leader is dead.
My cult leader managed to endgame and win. The game had many ups and downs, and IIRC also got interrupted in the middle by the Hypixel forums being inaccessible for over a week, but it was one of my most memorable games, and Iām very glad to have played it. Thatās partially because I got to know people in addition to playing, to be fair, and also partially due to winning, but I think the chaotic bastard elements improved the game, rather than harming it.
Admittedly, it is quite difficult to do this properly - plenty of bastard mod decisions, neutrals, and āunusualā setup decisions leave the players with a bad taste in their mouth, and Iāve played games that have been significantly worse off due to these.
Okay, so I have one potential player.
ā¦now I need to finish the potential game.
(Mechanics are meaningless without the roles.)
((Except the roles are also the biggest workā¦))
I would strongly advise leaving in the ability to do dynamic balancing in some way - most likely in the way BotC does it.
