I think we should talk about the newbie setup.
1. What is the current setup?
0-1 Cop
0-1 Doctor
5-7 Townies
0-1 Mafia Roleblocker
0-1 Mafia Godfather
2. When did we start using this setup?
The setup was first used in BM4, and as far as I can tell we haven't changed it since. That means all beginner setups between BM4 and BM38 used this setup (I'm not including BM39 in this as it is unfinished).
3. What is the problem?
Game | Power Roles | Winners |
BM4 | Doctor vs Roleblocker | Mafia |
BM5 | Cop vs Godfather* | Mafia |
BM6 | Cop vs Roleblocker[/b] | Mafia |
BM7 | Cop vs Godfather/Roleblocker* | Town |
BM8 | Cop/Doctor vs Godfather | Town |
BM9 | Cop/Doctor vs Godfather | Mafia |
BM10 | Cop/Doctor vs Goons | Mafia |
BM11 | Townies vs Goons | Nobody |
BM12 | * | Mafia |
BM13 | Townies vs Godfather/Roleblocker | Mafia |
BM14 | Cop vs Godfather | Mafia |
BM15 | Cop vs Godfather | Mafia |
BM16 | Doctor vs Godfather | Nobody |
BM17 | Doctor vs Roleblocker | Mafia |
BM18 | Doctor/Cop vs Roleblocker/Godfather | Mafia |
BM19 | Cop vs Goons | Mafia |
BM20 | Doctor vs Goons | Mafia |
BM21 | Townies vs Goons* | Mafia** |
BM22 | Townies vs Goons | Mafia |
BM23 | Doctor vs Goons | Town |
BM24 | Cop vs Roleblocker* | Mafia |
BM25 | Doctor vs Roleblocker | Town |
BM26 | Cop vs Roleblocker* | Mafia |
BM27 | Doctor vs Cop | Mafia |
BM28 | Doctorvs Roleblocker* | Town |
BM29 | Townies vs Roleblocker | Mafia |
BM30 | Cop vs Roleblocker* | Mafia |
BM31 | Cop vs Goons* | Mafia*** |
BM32 | * | Mafia |
BM33 | Doctor vs Roleblocker* | Mafia |
BM34 | Cop/Doctor vs Godfather/Roleblocker | Mafia |
BM35 | Cop/Doctor vs Roleblocker | Mafia |
BM36 | Cop/Doctor vs Roleblocker/Godfather | Mafia |
BM37 | Doctor vs Roleblocker | Town |
BM38 | Cop vs Roleblocker | Mafia |
*I am not 100% sure about these setups - they may have included more roles.
**Was a kindof disastrous game all round, pretty funny to read though.
***Lurking resulted in the town no lynching at lylo!
Mafia wins too often. We've had enough games to observe a clear pattern here, and it seems like town is only winning 1/6th of the time.
4. What can we learn from this?
- Town needs to be buffed in some way in BM. Perhaps by guaranteeing a town PR or changing the setup to something more forgiving.
- There are more PRs in these games than you'd expect by chance I think, but I haven't properly checked this.
- I really miss dakarian, and I'm still angry about Neruz.
- PLEASE WRITE THE SETUP SOMEWHERE MODS