Ezradekezra wrote:What's everyone's opinion on letting Coven roles spawn, like for the test game we ran earlier?
We can definitely test Coven, but I don't think we should test Mafia and Coven together unless we have like 20+ players which won't happen in the foreseeable future. So each test should either be designated as a Mafia game or a Coven game. Since very few Coven games have a Mafia rolelist, I think Coven roles should be restricted to Coven games.
Brilliand wrote:Ezradekezra wrote:What's everyone's opinion on letting Coven roles spawn, like for the test game we ran earlier?
Thing is, Mafia and Town roles that get tested are mainly being tested for the purpose of Ranked, where Coven roles can't spawn. Spawning Stalker and Crusader in the same test game isn't great.
On the other hand, Conqueror was made with All Any in mind, and it's pretty hard to argue that CAA is worse than regular AA.
Seems to me that for this test month, we should switch back and forth between allowing Coven roles and disallowing Coven roles - and that answer may change in other months depending on the which roles are being tested. (In February, we had only Town and Mafia roles under test, so there was no reason to allow Coven at all.)
I think we should be testing for balance but don't see anything wrong with testing for Coven Ranked other than that Coven is bad. Conqueror is actually a balanced role imo and I would argue that it's more suitable for Ranked than any currently existing NK.
In general I think we should primarily do Coven games for non-Mafia roles since those roles would probably be added to the DLC if they were ever added. We should do the occasional Mafia test for non-Mafia roles, especially for months like this one where there is only one Mafia role being tested.