Stoofer's 3rd Law

Fiasco · Post Post #22 (isolation #0) » Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:01 am

If towns are losing because their power roles don't sound plausible, then perhaps townies aren't lying enough.

Fiasco · Post Post #24 (isolation #1) » Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:38 am

There's an important difference between setups that hurt the town because they hurt the town, and setups that hurt the town because the town handles them badly. If it's the latter, you'd expect that effect to go away as towns became more skilled.

Fiasco · Post Post #54 (isolation #2) » Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:33 am

I think it's hard to justify not vigging N1. Mafia is a race between the town's more-or-less random lynching and the mafia's nonrandom nightkills. Most setups would be skewed toward the town if they were nightless. Vigging makes the game closer to nightless.

Fiasco · Post Post #57 (isolation #3) » Fri Mar 09, 2007 6:33 am

Fiasco wrote:Most setups would be skewed toward the town if they were nightless.

I half take this back. 3:9 is only 50-50, for example. Still not awful, and you have to take into account the vig not killing himself. (Town lynches possibly being better than random should already have been included in the balance for the game as a whole.)