Votanic wrote:A hypothesis I've developed...
1. I think EW really wanted to run a mountainous/all-vanilla game. He comes off as the kind of person that might equate minimalism with sophistication.
2. However, he knew/suspected that an all-vanilla game would be a tough sell (because having super powers is kewl!!!)
3. So he gave us a game that kinda looks like it has PRs but really keeps Town pretty close to vanilla.
For examples:
ā¢ Tracker isn't even close to being on par with cop/seer as an investigative role. There is a good chance a tracker might miss the action every single night.
ā¢ And what is even worse than a Tracker? ...a 'Motion Detector'...
ā¢ We might have a doctor, but even if we do he will only work 50% of the time (or just once if he's the JOAT!)
ā¢Ā But who might have a cop and certainly does have most of the role-blocking? Scum!
ā¢ So scum will probably soon be able to find and neutralize most of Town's already limited PRs. That is assuming they don't just night-kill them....
More likely, EW plays alot on the other mafia sites, which are purely dedicated to mafia, and brought over this matrix thing, which is probably the meta on the other sites and probably been tweaked over time to be some kind of optimally balanced setup.