23456th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 11)

Whaaaaaaaaaat

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I miss secret cookie. No dalad for stranger

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Secret cookie is an integral part of my sophomore year memories

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I hereby declare I am endorsed by the company.

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True I just made all of that up

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(To be 100% clear I mean “people saying their mashes MUST be balanced despite empirical evidence (wolves winning every mash) when all mash balance is empircal” not you. I assume you know this but in case)

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I’ve never designed a mashI’m just speculating based on the same problems I have repeatedly observed, so I’m talking less about how to balance a mash and more about why they are hard to balancr

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Rule #1 of mash balance: find a mash that seemed balanced and match it

If your source mashes are not balanced i.e. are always won by wolves then something is up

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In general people are kind of afraid of changing the game so that town wins more “because they’re clearly just not playing well enough”. But, like, mafia is a social game and the balance has to be considered socially…

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The goal of game balance is to create a competitive experience for both teams where people can use their skill to help their team win. Wolves are not actually expressing their personal skill if the games are designed such that wolves almost always win

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Balance I presume has to account for how the people play the game and that can be very unpredictably variable

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i think wolves need to have a role that constantly requires them to post in a discord server to distract them/wear them out overtime in order to give town an advantage. that’s how i’d manage a mash.

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If you say so, potato

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you know i can come up with much worse nicknames for you than you can for me, centaur

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How is centaur a worse nickname

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it’s stupid and i dislike centaurs

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