RadioScum (Thread 2.0) - Faraday needs to suck more

[Nobody Special]

Great show so far.

Perhaps the Serial Killer thing needs to be entirely rebuilt from the ground up. (No, I have no ideas in this regard. Yet.)

[Eddard Stark]

oh i missed this due to timezones, blah blah. upload quick etc

[Xalxe]

Still on.

[xRECKONERx]

Interesting idea. I do agree that we seem to have a very primitive understanding of how a Serial Killer should work. Should it have a very slim chance of winning, or should it be equal to the other factions? Should it be designed as a counter-town or counter-mafia measure? Wow, we could fill an entire show with this discussion.

[xRECKONERx]

oh i missed this due to timezones, blah blah. upload quick etc

IT'S STILL ON, TUNE IN

[Xalxe]

Interesting idea. I do agree that we seem to have a very primitive understanding of how a Serial Killer should work. Should it have a very slim chance of winning, or should it be equal to the other factions? Should it be designed as a counter-town or counter-mafia measure? Wow, we could fill an entire show with this discussion.

Mashups and

Mafia

Serial Killers

[Nobody Special]

I'm not really sure where the idea came from that each faction should have differing odds of winning. I think the idea of balance means that Town and Mafia start out on equal footing. Is this not the main objective of balancing?

Now, I don't think that it's fair, if there exists a third party, that each of three factions has an equal chance. However, giving one faction (even just a 1p faction, like SK) a lesser chance of winning seems, on the face of it, unfair.

I don't know how to solve this.

[hasdgfas]

YES YES YES. I absolutely hate "what are all your reads?" It's totally ok to not be sure. The issue is finding a difference between "I don't know" and being wishy-washy.

[Nobody Special]

Sending WD-40 for the squeaky chair. Let me know who the offending party is.


Very distracting.

[Kublai Khan]

Very wishy-washy summary!

[Xalxe]

Sending WD-40 for the squeaky chair. Let me know who the offending party is.


Very distracting.

Untrod's fault.

[Nobody Special]

I am also a pyromaniac.


And now you know.


P-Edit: I have to pee, too.

[Untrod Tripod]

can we have a fundraiser to buy me a new chair?

[Kublai Khan]

http://rotten.com/library/culture/eagle-scouts/

(only 1 notable arsonist)

[Xalxe]

http://rotten.com/library/culture/eagle-scouts/

Dude I have SO MANY STORIES about kids in my troop who should NEVER EVER EVER have gotten Eagle.

[Cogito Ergo Sum]

I'm not really sure where the idea came from that each faction should have differing odds of winning. I think the idea of balance means that Town and Mafia start out on equal footing. Is this not the main objective of balancing?

Now, I don't think that it's fair, if there exists a third party, that each of three factions has an equal chance. However, giving one faction (even just a 1p faction, like SK) a lesser chance of winning seems, on the face of it, unfair.

I don't know how to solve this.

There's nothing inherently unfair about a faction having a smaller chance of winning. We join and play games to have fun, not to win. Winning is generally fun and losing due to the set-up is generally unfun, which is why balance is important. Fairness doesn't enter into it. SKs have fun, thus there is no problem.

(Game's also not symmetric with regards to the factions - town really is the important faction when it comes to making the game work as it should which is why e.g. I advocate a 40-30-30 in win percentages in games with 2 proper scum groups.)

[Xalxe]

SKs have fun, thus there is no problem.

I didn't when I died N1.

[Untrod Tripod]

I'm not really sure where the idea came from that each faction should have differing odds of winning. I think the idea of balance means that Town and Mafia start out on equal footing. Is this not the main objective of balancing?

Now, I don't think that it's fair, if there exists a third party, that each of three factions has an equal chance. However, giving one faction (even just a 1p faction, like SK) a lesser chance of winning seems, on the face of it, unfair.

I don't know how to solve this.

There's nothing inherently unfair about a faction having a smaller chance of winning. We join and play games to have fun, not to win. Winning is generally fun and losing due to the set-up is generally unfun, which is why balance is important. Fairness doesn't enter into it. SKs have fun, thus there is no problem.

(Game's also not symmetric with regards to the factions - town really is the important faction when it comes to making the game work as it should which is why e.g. I advocate a 40-30-30 in win percentages in games with 2 proper scum groups.)

I believe that was what we decided

[hasdgfas]

Did I hear some Chicago in this mashup?

[xRECKONERx]

SKs have fun, thus there is no problem.

I didn't when I died N1.

then don't play scummy

PREDIT: yeah, ya did

[Kublai Khan]

SKs have fun, thus there is no problem.

I didn't when I died N1.

then don't play scummy

I got NKed by scum N1 when I was a SK.

[Nobody Special]

Then don't play too town.

I also got killed Night One as SK.

Sucks.

[Kublai Khan]

Does F62 encourage shitty posters to stick around?

[Nobody Special]

Yes.

[hasdgfas]

But people are going to go to F62 anyway if they're U18.