Murderer Theme

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  1. HeartOfTheCards

    HeartOfTheCards New Member

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    This should all be pretty simple so I won't go over the details, I'll just explain the premise and show the code.

    The premise: A town is living a peaceful life god-knows-where, when suddenly news of a serial killer starts spreading like wildfire. The town decides to elect a Leader (who probably should claim) and give him maximum security. Problem is: Only the Leader's vote counts!

    http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=FgAHfPbJ

    I hope this theme gets approved!
     
  2. Roild

    Roild Member

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    Okay. What makes this theme special in your own words? And maybe you should add role descriptions. I'll look through this later tonight.
     
  3. Fuzzysqurl

    Fuzzysqurl baa baa mareep I do what I want Server Owner Developer I do what I want Server Owner Developer

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    How does Mafia win? They have no votes and cannot kill the leader, so the last people standing would have to be Leader + Mafia... It's almost like Vanilla, without the voting.
     
  4. Shazan

    Shazan Obey to Kyubey

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    mmm i don't know, there are already persons that whine when they get villager because they can only vote without any particulare action, and with this you are taking away this too.
    Anyway i found it interesting, and thinking about what you wrote before
    . I was thinking:
    What if instead you make it this way : 1)mafia can't kill first night 2)everyone has 1 vote like normal. 3) during the voting phase you don't vote who will get voted out but instead who will be your leader. 4) the leader would be immortal , the next night he will decide who to kill and at the end of the night he will became again a normal citizen. 5) If mafia get voted out he will get 2 kills instead of one. 6) You can add some extra roles that can spice up the game when there are a little more people, like a mayor that has more votes but has a voteshield so high that he can't became a leader, or a boycotter that every night convert someone without their knowledge and the person converted if he get voted he will be lynched as in a normal game.
    Maybe my suggestions would make the game a little similar to vengeful, but at the same time the simple fact that you vote who you trust instead of who you think is bad could make the game more interesting.
    Obviously there are other ways that you can spice your theme, but as it is now the theme make the role of the citizens nearly useless, the only thing that a citizen does is talk, that in server mafia is a little limited from the too low time at disposition for talk
     
  5. Roild

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    Wow okay. I just checked. It is impossible for village to win. They have to wait for mafia to kill anyone who isn't the voter and then that happens. :> The current mechanic won't work at all because ONLY the voter will die... Decline [1]
     
  6. IceKirby

    IceKirby A.K.A. RiceKirby

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    IMO, this theme lacks depth. As it is currenly, you could simply remove the Lynch Phase and give Leader a non-revealing Daykill. It would have the same outcome as the vote and would save a lot of time, but would make it even more clear how the theme is basically based around 2 players + some cannon fodders.
     
  7. MewtwoHidden

    MewtwoHidden My Hax Makes Me Famous

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    Decline [2]

    Although I like the concept, by nature the theme is too unbalanced towards the village
     
  8. Hopkirk

    Hopkirk +C

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    The mafia can do nothing to win. The villagers can do nothing whatsoever (nobody would want to play this role).
     
  9. Shazan

    Shazan Obey to Kyubey

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    i do not understand you guys why you say that mafia can't win, afterall there is no villagecantlose list , so if mafia and the voter are alone, simply mafia win.
     
  10. Roild

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    I think we're saying 1v7 after voter dies means that the game is forever stalled. (No more votes coming in.)
     
  11. Not L

    Not L Fairy Princess

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    The village wins when the Leader votes out the Killer. The Killer wins when he kills all the Villagers. The theme works, but there's nothing that appeals to me. I've never been a fan of the Vanilla style server mafia. It just doesn't work as well as on the forum. All that will happen here is the Leader will rand and hope he can lynch the Killer before the Killer kills all the villagers. Not very exciting, and the villagers literally do nothing, which makes this theme even more boring for being a villager. Sorry, but Decline [3]
     
  12. Roild

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    Yeah. Complete guesswork up until the final moments. I mixed up voter with non-voters. Either way, it is a bit too simple for now.
     
  13. Windblown

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    Looks a bit like Space Invaders yeah but with a chosen leader, which is kind of interesting because you can pick capable people, though I do foresee a few definite conflicts amongst server mafia players for the leader role... As such, I'm leaning towards declining it because it really isn't too different from the vanilla-style server maf themes.
     
  14. Hobbes2

    Hobbes2 Aren't I dead or something

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    You haven't even been responding to any of the comments that people have been making?

    I don't like this theme one bit. Aside from being pure randing, it's just a slightly modified vanilla. Mafia has a slim to none chance of winning.

    This theme is basically just space invaders + vanilla combined. That's not a good thing.

    Decline [4]

    I edited this, but it didn't show up. Anyway, I can tell this is probably your first theme, so don't give up and work at presenting us an even better theme next time.
     
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