Sorry for the delay! Too much easter chocolate, not enough chicken scratch. Next phase is kicking in now.
BOTCHER PHASE: ADDING TO THE PROBLEM
It's time for botching! During the second round's botcher phases, the botcher will be able to add prefixes/nouns to the pool of options for the final guess.
They now have
Based on the ruleset this is a worker win! (In hindsight the immediate worker wincon needs to be harder or botcher needs more tools but can't really balance things in the middle of the game q_q woops)
Will reveal who the botcher is in 24 hours if they don't want to reveal themselves and people want to try to guess for fun.
Thanks for playing everyone! Sorry if the setup was a little undercooked lol. It's based on a video game I've been working on, but the translation to forum feels a little imperfect/clunky. If anyone has any feedback in general on potential improvements would love to hear it.
Yeah I think my concern is just that so much of the time in the game is spent with the thread locked. If there's two rounds it feels like there should be more opportunity for discussion. Would it maybe make sense for the thread to just stay open so people can talk about stuff for 48 hours? Or is it functionally fine with discussion only when it gets to the end with voting?
In post 34, GeorgeBailey wrote:My only observation is that I think voting for another round is always highly in the worker's favour but idk how to fix that.
Yeah, the only reason I can think you wouldn't is if everyone was already confident but even then the act of playing the game is fun, so I'd still vote to go another round. Maybe there could be something the botcher could do to "frame" someone but IDK how that would work, and if that would change the tone of the game from casual to stressful.
In post 32, BipolarChemist wrote:im putting high sus on cheery dog just for the Brainy Gift guess
I'm sorry for assuming that it had mutated more towards the round.
Maybe I should have guessed funeral seeing as the botcher added that word to the list.
Second round was a lot harder to botch.
Really I think it probably just didn't work overall with only four players.
Holder of the Longest Continuous Weekly Mafiascum Post Record. 1 July 2012 - 16 Feb 2023
*It may be held by someone else if you discount the major downtime in 2012 and 2014, I'm not doing the research.
Re-using the thread for next game, signups are opening now, will only fire if we hit at least six players!
Notable updates:
Botcher will be able to affect multiple cases during each botcher phase.
There will be only one round, rather than two.
The single round will have three drawing phases and two prompting phases.
Increasing the threshold of correct guesses required for a win to four out of six.
I will straight up disregard all reason if you have a PR dream again. You can come back and be like, “I dreamt that Locke is a N2 Bulletproof Multitasking Cop and Self-Targeting Doctor,” and I will go, “Okay, Locke kill it is then.”
I have no site access from the 12th-16th May, will this affect the game too mich
Also, what is NM doing? Worst play I’ve ever seen.
I can't remember the last N_M post that wasn't bland, unimaginative and lame. Some shitposters are at least somewhat funny. You are the epitomy of the type of poster that nobody would miss if you were to suddenly disappear. You never add anything of value.
I'm guessing you haven't read the game and probably never will? Why even sign up to play?
Also, what is NM doing? Worst play I’ve ever seen.
I can't remember the last N_M post that wasn't bland, unimaginative and lame. Some shitposters are at least somewhat funny. You are the epitomy of the type of poster that nobody would miss if you were to suddenly disappear. You never add anything of value.
I'm guessing you haven't read the game and probably never will? Why even sign up to play?
Holder of the Longest Continuous Weekly Mafiascum Post Record. 1 July 2012 - 16 Feb 2023
*It may be held by someone else if you discount the major downtime in 2012 and 2014, I'm not doing the research.