Non-peak theme: Votebomb

Discussion in 'Theme Development' started by NotMafia, Jan 10, 2014.

  1. NotMafia

    NotMafia Miltank: Destroyer of Souls

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    Hello,

    I have created a theme for 5-12 players, it involves a Mayor, villagers and mafia. The mayor and mafia act just as in default but the villagers are "votebombs" (like cookie monster in SS, they lynch the first person who voted them, don't know the official term for that role so I made up votebomb")

    Village will need to rand for mafia but they will also need to careful not to get themselves lynched.
    Mayor won't want to draw attention but will also need to orchestrate the village somewhat.
    Mafia will want to bait lynches against villagers whilst trying to kill mayor.

    Please give your thoughts about whether you think this could be a fun theme and if there are any balancing issues.

    Also if you have a better name than Votebomb (you probably do) please suggest it as I can't think of anything.

    Here is the spawn list

    "roles1": [
    "villager",
    "mafia",
    "villager",
    "villager",
    "mayor",
    "villager",
    "mafia",
    "villager",
    "villager",
    "villager",
    "mafia",
    "villager"
    ],

    And the pastebin link http://pastebin.com/feW4Hyja
     
    Last edited: Jan 11, 2014
  2. IceKirby

    IceKirby A.K.A. RiceKirby

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    I'm not sure this would work well.
    Compare it with vanilla. Village has to play the same way, but they get double-penalized for missing a lynch, it disencourages counter-rands or even argumenting to prove you are not scum, and village lose one of their best method to gather information (AKA vote patterns).
    In a setup like that, Mafia has absolutely no reason to lead a rand, as they would almost be certain to die too. One could say that this would be useful to clean people (if you rand, you are not Mafia because Mafia randing would be stupid), but if someone tries that to clean itself, there's quite a good chance they will not live much longer to make their cleanliness useful.
     
  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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  4. Joeypals!!

    Joeypals!! Don't you worry 'bout a thing~

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    I don't have any actual suggestions to give you right now, but I'm going to give a general observation. Given the village messes up and that Mafia usually never leads rands, this game is basically a non-peak version of Vanilla with an additional kill lying in the vote... and a Mayor. Try branching your idea out more, it's essentially a copy atm.
     
  5. NotMafia

    NotMafia Miltank: Destroyer of Souls

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    Lol, fixed @ fuzzsqurl
     
  6. Roild

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    Votebomb is what I call it for server things. Otherwise is Supersaint by forum standards. Like inspector/Cop. :D