Soulshade55r wrote:I find Survivor fun !
Anyway I love screwing over Nks shouting about how they don't win a lot It's funny.
Zee235 wrote:http://town-of-salem.wikia.com/wiki/Neutral_Benign
Read the first paragraph. Now I know the wiki is not the best source of info in the world but it is the best I can come up with. From what it sounds like Neutral Benign roles are supposed to (although not required) be kingmakers. If this is what BMG had in mind for making roles like survivor then thats basically the end of it. If it was made to be a kingmaker for some games then let it be. This is what I think as far as survivor goes.
BasicFourLife wrote:Zee235 wrote:http://town-of-salem.wikia.com/wiki/Neutral_Benign
Read the first paragraph. Now I know the wiki is not the best source of info in the world but it is the best I can come up with. From what it sounds like Neutral Benign roles are supposed to (although not required) be kingmakers. If this is what BMG had in mind for making roles like survivor then thats basically the end of it. If it was made to be a kingmaker for some games then let it be. This is what I think as far as survivor goes.
- It's actually the complete opposite, we are trying to remove all kingmakers from the game.
- If there is in fact a rule like that in the Wiki, that needs to be changed.
- Also the best source of information on how to make roles is in RI stickied topics.
Soulshade55r wrote:I find Survivor fun !
Anyway I love screwing over Nks shouting about how they don't win a lot It's funny.
Zee235 wrote:BasicFourLife wrote:Zee235 wrote:http://town-of-salem.wikia.com/wiki/Neutral_Benign
Read the first paragraph. Now I know the wiki is not the best source of info in the world but it is the best I can come up with. From what it sounds like Neutral Benign roles are supposed to (although not required) be kingmakers. If this is what BMG had in mind for making roles like survivor then thats basically the end of it. If it was made to be a kingmaker for some games then let it be. This is what I think as far as survivor goes.
- It's actually the complete opposite, we are trying to remove all kingmakers from the game.
- If there is in fact a rule like that in the Wiki, that needs to be changed.
- Also the best source of information on how to make roles is in RI stickied topics.
1. That would be really hard. Anything can be a kingmaker at any point. For example in a Chaos mode it serial killer could be a kingmaker. Not to mention most of that post was just to mention that if BMG, the owners of the game, Want survivors to be king makers then it would most likely not happen. Although kingmakers can be unbalanced a lot of the community like kingmakers. take it from himSoulshade55r wrote:I find Survivor fun !
Anyway I love screwing over Nks shouting about how they don't win a lot It's funny.
2. please explain
3. I would say the best info would come from BMG itself. I know the wiki is not BMG themselves but that was the best I could find. If BMG did have problems with kingmakers then they would probably do something about it.
BasicFourLife wrote:Zee235 wrote:BasicFourLife wrote:Zee235 wrote:http://town-of-salem.wikia.com/wiki/Neutral_Benign
Read the first paragraph. Now I know the wiki is not the best source of info in the world but it is the best I can come up with. From what it sounds like Neutral Benign roles are supposed to (although not required) be kingmakers. If this is what BMG had in mind for making roles like survivor then thats basically the end of it. If it was made to be a kingmaker for some games then let it be. This is what I think as far as survivor goes.
- It's actually the complete opposite, we are trying to remove all kingmakers from the game.
- If there is in fact a rule like that in the Wiki, that needs to be changed.
- Also the best source of information on how to make roles is in RI stickied topics.
1. That would be really hard. Anything can be a kingmaker at any point. For example in a Chaos mode it serial killer could be a kingmaker. Not to mention most of that post was just to mention that if BMG, the owners of the game, Want survivors to be king makers then it would most likely not happen. Although kingmakers can be unbalanced a lot of the community like kingmakers. take it from himSoulshade55r wrote:I find Survivor fun !
Anyway I love screwing over Nks shouting about how they don't win a lot It's funny.
2. please explain
3. I would say the best info would come from BMG itself. I know the wiki is not BMG themselves but that was the best I could find. If BMG did have problems with kingmakers then they would probably do something about it.
The Developers are busy working on Unity.. they haven't had time to focus on other changes.
Boredfan1 wrote:EXCEPT, town usually lynches the survivor OR a dumbass mafia/NK kills the survivor THUS, it can't be a kingmaker a lot of the time. PLUS, the survivor being a kingmaker isn't actually a bad thing, it is a pretty balanced thing all things considered since people usually pity the NK but not always so it's not skewed towards anyone and helps reduce the town's ridiculous win rate. If anything, there needs to be an incentive to not hang the survivor otherwise any changes are pointless.
fwogcarf wrote:If Survivor does need a rework, then this is a good solution.
Except I feel Survivor is fine as it is and honestly doesn't need a rework. What are the problems with survivor?
Shilster wrote:Isn't this just a better Janitor? It can totally disable people, and yeah, it nerfs lynching. People who can't vote (especially Town members) are useless to their team.
YuuArtSui explained it pretty well.
Kirize12 wrote:I had an idea almost exactly like yours, but I let go of it. Here is why:Kikigiri wrote:I have another objection. I've kind of been ignoring this thread because I hoped it would die, but since people keep posting to it...
If this change were implemented, why would any Survivor not claim D1? Consider how heavily Town-favored this version of the Survivor is.
1. The Mafia will never attack anyone they think is a Survivor (because attacking them means risking hitting a fellow Mafia member.) The possibility of piercing Doctors (or just crossing your fingers and hoping he didn't pick a target) isn't remotely worth the risk of killing one of your own Mafia. It'd be like targeting a revealed Transporter - only idiots do that. You also lose the information on whether your target was immune, which is absolutely essential for the Mafia to beat NKs. Any Mafioso or GF who deliberately targeted a Survivor with this change would be a moron.
(Remember, a smart Survivor will always try to transport himself with people he thinks are Mafia, since they're less likely to be attacked; or with people who he thinks nobody is likely to bother attacking. This makes attacking the Survivor directly a waste at best - you're getting your attack redirected onto your least-likely target - and in many cases absolutely suicidal for the Mafia.)
2. Under your change, Survivors will usually vote with the Town. Why? Because the Mafia is a much more serious threat to them - as the number of Town members dwindles, the chance that the Survivor will get killed by the Mafia increases. They benefit from eliminating the Mafia quickly and avoiding ever reaching the late game (where they can't vote anyway.) In the worst case scenario, a Survivor could reach a situation with three people left... where they already transported themselves with the killer last night. That's a guaranteed lose for the Survivor. They can't vote to end the game, they can't avoid swapping themselves with the Town member, and the Mafioso is going to aim a kill at the Town member to end the game - they're not gonna care that this kills the Survivor. Revealing and openly siding with the Town before the game reaches that point is far far safer, especially since you still have the fallback of winning with the Mafia sometimes. If I was a Survivor and I had the chance to end the game with a Town win when there are four people left, I would desperately grab it and cling to it as fast as I could, since no matter how friendly the Mafia is to me, they can't guarantee my survival when there are three people left.
(Why doesn't the Mafioso target the Survivor on a night with three people? Because they don't know who the Survivor swapped with; they could kill themselves if they do that and the Survivor swapped with the Mafioso. Trying to target the Survivor or otherwise cut deals with them to help them to survive would, guess what, turn the Survivor into a kingmaker - a Survivor could lie and end up making the Mafioso kill themselves.)
3. But that means that this role is effectively an additional Town Protective. Any Town member the Survivor swaps with is completely safe - the Mafia won't attack a revealed Survivor (because they don't know the Survivor is swapping with Town, and have no reason to take that risk), and if they attack the Survivor's target, the Survivor dies instead. This is win/win from the Town's perspective, meaning that the Town will never want to hang potential Survivors. Yes, the Survivor can't vote with you when there are three people left, but they have huge incentives to vote with you before that point, because situations where the Mafia starts slowly picking off the Town at night are very very dangerous to a Survivor who is forced to swap with a different person each night.
4. The Mafia will want to hang you (because this version of the Survivor is heavily Town-favored, basically serving as a BG who doesn't kill), but they can't deliberately kill you at night, since targeting you, again, risks killing one of themselves, and they won't know who you're targeting. Note that this also means that the Mafia can't even offer to side with the Survivor - they have no way to guarantee the Survivor's safety. Again, this version of Survivor is entirely Town-favored; they can technically win with the Mafia, but mechanically, they benefit the Town and are much more likely to win if they side with the Town.
Other problems... you're complicating the game for a benefit that (as I mention above) I'm just not seeing. Transporters already add a huge amount of complexity; what's the point of turning Survivors into this nerfed version of a Transporter?
You didn't say if the targets get messages. I assume no (giving them messages would both make Survivors functionally unlynchable, and would make it impossible for anyone else to claim survivor, which is a vital part of the Survivor's role in the meta.)
You didn't say what happens if the Survivor doesn't pick a target and the Jailor is dead. You weren't going to say that it gets picked at random, were you? Because it soooounds like you're suggesting something random!
You're removing one of the few ways to explain immunity without being evil. That is the exact opposite of what the game needs. Evils already tend to die instantly when their immunity is exposed; we need ways to improve the usefulness of survivor as a claim in that situation, rather than removing that aspect of it entirely. To me, after all, that role is one of the primary reasons Survivors exist.
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Mystoc wrote:why take away survs decision that was the fun thing about end game whoever was the better convincer got the surviver to side with them. being able to convince a surv to side with i un the final 3 was the funniest part of the game, making the choice automated seems silly to me it seems the game is the kingmaker now
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BasicFourLife wrote:fwogcarf wrote:BasicFourLife wrote:fwogcarf wrote:If Survivor does need a rework, then this is a good solution.
Except I feel Survivor is fine as it is and honestly doesn't need a rework. What are the problems with survivor?
- Kingmaker
- Hard to achieve goal
Explain what you mean by "Kingmaker".
I do understand why it's hard to achieve goal, but that's what four bulletproof vests are for.
Kingmaker is a player who can decide the winner biased on whoever they want, skill doesn't matter in this situation. The win / loss for the other players is uncontrollable and there's nothing they can do about it, ex: SK v GF v Surv, Surv chooses the winner...That creates swing and swing is bad for the game.
The survivor is still a vital point to playing any game. It's a plus one vote and an additional scumreader/PR hunter who virtually can't be killed at night. Allying with the role is important, and should the Survivor so choose, it could be an additional vote to your faction - so in a 9/3/3 setup, it could become 10/3/2 with a survivor, which would give town a significant advantage. Hell, once you think about it, survivor is a little more town-sided by default since town controls the gallows and mafia controls the night - but survivor doesn't die at night. (unless they don't vest or if mafia has a consort, both rare)
All this does is prevent picking a winner. A survivor wins no matter what, their vote shouldn't be counted as they no longer have stake in the game.
Kirize12 wrote:Basic, please add it back.
I think you miss the point. Any kingmaker automatically dumbs down the game. All kingmakers, by definition, have no stake in the game. They are someone who has already lost or won, and nothing can change that. Thus, given since a kingmaker isn’t actually part of the game, any decisions it makes aren’t influenced even remotely by in-game decisions based on how to benefit it - it cannot be benefitted, it has already won. From this we can conclude that a kingmaker win is never remotely deserved - they are always, without exception, pure luck. It doesn’t make for good gameplay if a role that’s inherently town-sided (given town can lynch you on any given day but you can’t be killed at night) so if it can’t find all the scum roles it deserves to have its right of choice stripped. Not that it matters to the survivor - from a gameplay perspective, it has already won, and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it. It’s the exact same thing with non-killing Town (or ret), witch, jester, executioner...
Of course, hopefully my Kingmaker Scenario Detector will be added and this won’t matter, because it’ll be grandfathered into that anyways. Still, the less kingmakers, the better.
Kirize12 wrote:It's a plus one vote and an additional scumreader/PR hunter who virtually can't be killed at night.
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