#Mayor Overhaul

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high star
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Mayor

Town (Power)
Attack: None
Defense: None

Reveal ( 1️⃣, ☀️ )

  • During the day, Reveal yourself as the Mayor of the town.
  • You will gain a charge of Enact.
  • If a factional evil player is hung while you're revealed, you will gain a charge of Enact.

Enact ( 0️⃣, 🌙 )

  • While Revealed, Retract the current Policy (If any) and choose a new Policy to Enact.
  • There can only be 1 Policy active at a time.
  • You cannot Enact the same Policy twice.
  • All players will know which Policy is Enacted.
  • If a good player is hung, the current policy is Retracted.
  • If you die, the current policy Retracts after a day.

Policies

  • Offensive - When a factional evil player is hung, players who voted innocent on them are Roleblocked.
  • Defensive - [Removed atm]
  • Inquisitive - When a factional evil player is hung, learn if a player of the same faction voted innocent.
  • Supportive - When a factional evil player is hung, player who voted guilty on them are Accompanied for that night.

Attributes

  • Illusioned or Framed/Enchanted/Reaped players will appear as the role they were framed as to Inquisitive.
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Changelog:

9/23 Post is made
9/24 Defensive ("When a factional evil player is hung, players who voted guilty on them gains Basic Defense for that night.") is removed (might be a temp. fix)

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Policy Alternatives

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(Workshopped in #1287615242666508342)

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@hexed hawk If i recall, you were interested in my JOAT mayor rework
here it is, just with a full post under its name now :D

hexed hawk
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ah

high star
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it basically is far more versatile than any other tpow
however, that comes at the price of being able to not afford to have mislynches

high star
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anyways, any feedback would be appreciated

narrow bridge
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what is inquisitive?

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Illusioned or Framed/Enchanted/Reaped players will appear as the role they were framed as to Inquisitive.

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oh

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I see

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must've skipped it

high star
narrow bridge
high star
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LOL

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you can't VM me, I alerted last night!

high star
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Finally one of my suggestions has a positive net upvote

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smh

high star
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wow, almost 1.5 hours in and someone hasn't come and torn this apart yet
i consider this a success on my standards

high star
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Ngl I'm thinking abt how this works with trib

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  1. if a evil is hung then a town is hung while a policy is active, would the policy still activate?
  2. if a town is hung then a evil is hung while a policy is active, would the policy still activate?
    hmm
zinc pelican
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You cooked

honest pine
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Also i think It would not activate

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since you still, guiltied an inno player

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actually

honest pine
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but 2 would

zinc pelican
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doesn't trib count as everyone guiltying? Since jest can haunt anyone

raven mica
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holy mayor moment

honest pine
zinc pelican
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does it looks like I know how to read?

honest pine
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youre french

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fair nuff

zinc pelican
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Il n'est pas trop tard pour marcher dans un veteran :p

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(It's not too late to walk into a vet :p)

honest pine
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french exam tommorow

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locking in

zinc pelican
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If ye need any help lemme know

raven mica
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anyway as the Sigm a Mayor I approve of this rework

honest pine
steep sedge
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Inquisitive can be a useful surprise attack but defensive is just huge

glacial owl
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defensive is almost always a free night for town

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unless town is splitting

steep sedge
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But those are very specific situations

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Defensive is cracked

honest pine
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me when the warlock only gets innoed by townies:

steep sedge
zinc pelican
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Defensive -> Supportive are the best
Offensive / Inquisitive are kinda bad since you know if the policy is up

drifting canyon
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defensive is a little too powerful

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also some policies are just straight up useless if evils know its active

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like parceval said

near flax
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It also is kinda useless if Town is down

drifting canyon
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yep

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give it +1 vote when revealed

covert radish
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Okay this is a very interesting idea

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I think the policies themselves, I think there could be some more interesting ideas in there

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Also ones to help with Mayor's survivability because that's a big issue

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Also, was this at all inspired by secret hitler LUL

steep sedge
covert radish
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omg LUL

steep sedge
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It must be done

HARRY NEINED A TOWN-TOWN GOV GET HIM

primal meadow
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Also

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There is literally zero reason not to choose Defensive every time

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I'm sorry

tawdry igloo
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me choosing defensive every time:

steep sedge
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armor!

cobalt forge
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me like this

primal meadow
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I don't

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This is
Very very very busted

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Imagine fighting against someone who can not only reveal, but also make it so you cant fucking kill every time an evil is hanged

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This is the ultimate snowballling Tpow

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Which isn't a good thing

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It just makes fighting against it frustrating

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And stupid

cobalt forge
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but other than that its pretty good. better than the current plain 3 votes mayor

primal meadow
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First of all, Offensive is useless

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Evils will know its in play and thus know to guilty

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(Plus innoing late game for stuff like this is quite stupid anyway and will get you killed next after the lynch flips evil)

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Inquisitive is bad for the same reason; evils wont inno

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And supportive is just straight bad

tawdry igloo
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I like the concept of buffs but I want a hide or change mechanic to mayor, to add to its design other than just being a knight with an extra vote

high star
# tawdry igloo me choosing defensive every time:
  • You cannot Enact the same Policy twice.
    Also, all policies are a WIP and I'm still waiting on gaining more feedback
    I agree defensive is too busted, and there's defo room for fixing it
    @primal meadow @steep sedge you two seem to be quite vocal about defensive being cracked and offensive being useless, if you have ideas to replace it it'd be great
steep sedge
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Offensive isn't useless, it's just not nearly as good as Defensive.

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I can think about it

high star
high star
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btw

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it's in the post

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smh

tawdry igloo
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oh btw and I'm done tweening warlock js saying but yeah I like the concept of this till even if its wip

high star
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oh yeah absolutely

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atm i just wanna fix Defensive

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bc Defensive outshines everything

tawdry igloo
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I think the other 3 are just fine maybe delete it? or rework it in general

high star
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yeah, this originally had 3 policies anyways

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hol up

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  • Defensive is removed
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until someone can think of a good overhaul for defense

primal meadow
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Ngl

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I still prefer Hiatus Mayor

high star
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hol up let me find it

high star
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hiatus mayor is defo a good rework
this is a overhaul, kinda stripping mayor down to its basics then making it into a JOAT mayor
there's also technically not a reason to make it reveal anymore, but i think someone (tuba and curt, looking at you) would wanna keep the reveal cutscene

hexed hawk
high star
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yeah

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this

high star
high star
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that kinda goes for every tpow that reveals

covert radish
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Yeah but, Mayor is the only one that can die instantly for using it

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Consider the conjurer can just wait

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Prosecutor at least ends the day

high star
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marsh

covert radish
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Trib still happens

high star
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"there's also technically not a reason to make it reveal anymore, but i think someone (tuba and curt, looking at you) would wanna keep the reveal cutscene"

covert radish
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Yeah I didn’t say remove the cutscene

high star
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if really needed ig we could squeeze the cutscene into "The mayor has enacted a policy!"

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part

covert radish
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Myeeaaaa but

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I dunno about that

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The thing is as well

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You have to be reeeaaaally careful, with what other utilities you give tpows

dark crown
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this is cool as hell

covert radish
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Looking at both Marsh and Jailor, they have the highest winrates by a landslide

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I don't think just being a way to keep power in town's hands is a bad thing

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And also,

dark crown
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love the concept

covert radish
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Every single one of these is a snowball tool

dark crown
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but i feel like the policies would have to be balanced super well

high star
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yeah, policies are a WIP

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as mentioned

covert radish
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Mhm

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So I assume you are intending on changing them then?

high star
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I want better policies, ye

dark crown
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defensive was already removed

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because it was op as hell

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evils lose a member AND cant get a kill

high star
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I still dislike the rest of them

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and i wrote the darn thing

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💀

dark crown
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i feel like no one would go for offensive

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cause evils can easily just not vote innocent

high star
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I think there's a lot of creativity to be used for the policies

dark crown
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actually thats just prosecutor

covert radish
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Lemme have a think

dark crown
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it pretty much forces everyone who doesnt wanna get rbd to guilty

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or abstain ig

high star
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gotta convince temp somehow

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B)

covert radish
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To be honest idk if temp will be convinced

high star
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:P

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hiatus mayor is a good concept, so I'm not too sad
but I personally prefer this one more

covert radish
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In my head

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I think it would be cool if, something like Hiatus was one of the policies

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But you could choose a different one if you thought you could survive

high star
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tbh i think having a policy that corresponds to each non-tpow subalign is a good concept

covert radish
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Building on that, it would be cool if town didn't know what policy was in play, so you could cause some tomfoolery

high star
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so I think i'll stick with it

covert radish
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I can defo see that temp won't like this tho tbf

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Idk, it's a lot of energy to be a hater though

high star
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hmm

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it could be

dark crown
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policies are active for the entire day, correct?

covert radish
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Well in my head

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When you reveal, you choose one of (two or three) policies to enact

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That is the one that's in effect.

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And it's either active for a day or so, or until it would activate

steep sedge
steep sedge
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Also, Nuggy I am working on something for you

high star
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true

steep sedge
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That aside, still thinking

covert radish
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omgosh

steep sedge
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(It may take multiple days but it is some silliness.)

high star
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I do wanna think of some policies atm

tawdry igloo
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I have a few ideas in mind one sec

high star
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ooh

tawdry igloo
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any ideas from you though

high star
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atm I'm thinking offensive shouldn't be additional kp for town

covert radish
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Definitely not

high star
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but i don't like the current one

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so something that hinders evils

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we could try communication disruption but old soci proved that that's a terrible idea

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rb is the best way but rng rb is uhhh well
arse

covert radish
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aahhhhhhhhhhh okayy so

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Here's the thing

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This is a cool concept but, the more I'm looking at it

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How does this relate to the core concept of Mayor

high star
high star
tawdry igloo
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this is way too town sided but here

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Policies
Embolden- Once a evil has fallen the town will be Emboldened granting astral visits for all who guiltied.

Evacuation - If a Town Power has fallen or a evil day ability occurs call a Evacuation causing all abilities to fail for that night.

Revenue Boost- If you've killed 2-3 evils the townies will be granted basic defense + Astral visits for night.

high star
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the core concept of mayor is outdated

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from tos1

covert radish
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I'd argue absolutely not

tawdry igloo
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this is so bad but you can take pieces of it apart

high star
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lol

covert radish
high star
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I personally disagree with you

covert radish
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Mayor being an open leader of the town, keeping majority in their hands and choosing the direction of the town is a completely fine area which it still occupies

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Prosecutor tries to do the same thing, to a mixed degree, Monarch can do it from safety and secrecy with survivability, but has to trust other players to get that value

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Jailor and Marsh are their own things entirely

high star
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imo

covert radish
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I just gave examples of how their niches are different

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Pros is an issue yes

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But that's prosecutor's problems for stepping on Mayor's boundary

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And, prosecutor takes the game completely into its own hands

high star
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but if you want it to be more of a leader, just tweak the policies

covert radish
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But, assuming I agreed with you, that Mayor desperately needed an overhaul

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How does this achieve it?

high star
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this is JOAT

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mayor

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every other faction has a JOAT, this is town's

covert radish
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Okay, so now Mayor is stepping into the niches of other players
And notably, there is no core concept with how the policies work with Mayor. They can all be literally any abilities

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It's the job of all the other players in the match to do these things

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Giving it to mayor, they are either too strong to the point where it outshines other townies, or it has to be weak to the point where it's meaningless

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Which is what happened here

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And that's also why it's difficult to come up with policy ideas that work

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There's no framework

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This is dressing on top of Mayor

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They don't relate at all to the idea of revealing either, which is an ability mayor still has in this

hexed hawk
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I mean

covert radish
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If you wanted to give policies as a wholly unique concept, you could start from there

hexed hawk
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Three other roles have a hard reveal as an ability and one of them isn't even TPow

covert radish
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But, Mayor having three votes comfortably keeps control in their hands until they are the only remaining player, effectively.

hexed hawk
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The whole point is that reveal no longer carries a role's identity on its own
If you want Mayor to still reveal, it can, you just need something on top of it

covert radish
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Which is exactly the issue

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It leads to ideas with no rhythm or glue to work with

hexed hawk
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Then all of the other revealing TPow are "dressing on top of a reveal" as well

dark crown
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mon isnt either

hexed hawk
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Jailor isn't a revealing tpow

dark crown
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marsh and pros are though lmao

hexed hawk
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and neither is mon

covert radish
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Prosecutor is the only example of that

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Marshal gets an extra vote, therefore needs the reveal

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And I agree, Prosecutor revealing is pretty pointless

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And steps into mayor's niche

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Again, that's a prosecutor problem

hexed hawk
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I play too much vanilla

covert radish
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Oh yeah

hexed hawk
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I don't think it's Pros's problem

covert radish
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Vanilla Pros is even worse

dark crown
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vanilla pros is a nightmare

hexed hawk
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Pros has a different problem in vanilla

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Mayor's problem is that it reveals and kind of does nothing else with it

covert radish
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I agree, and it's 100% the wrong direction to go

dark crown
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actually im gonna go make a pros rework, brb in like 2 hours

covert radish
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Don't even think about pros

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vanilla pros*

dark crown
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its so bad

covert radish
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That's irrelevant here anyway

hexed hawk
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anyway

covert radish
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I think removing the dressing from pros and focusing it on being an anonymous role that keeps the power within itself is the way to go

hexed hawk
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You can't anonymize Pros.

covert radish
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Mayor keeps the power within itself, but as a public leader to the town

dark crown
hexed hawk
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"I'm Prosecuting 9"

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9 fucking dies

covert radish
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No

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I mean

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Allow pros to be secret

dark crown
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^

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its like how current dep doesnt reveal

covert radish
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Every tpow is confirmable and un-cc-able

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Of course

hexed hawk
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i mean, it wouldn't change the fact that Pros is kinda whack in BToS2

stone knoll
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we did it town PM

hexed hawk
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hi tuba

stone knoll
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hello

high star
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hello tuba

stone knoll
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(im trolling bw)

covert radish
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tubald

high star
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LOL

covert radish
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spotted

high star
covert radish
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We have proven prosecutor is indeed a problem

hexed hawk
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Pros isn't less whack here, it's differently whack here

covert radish
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How does that relate to Mayor

hexed hawk
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Yeah

covert radish
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Why is that Mayor's fault

high star
# covert radish How does that relate to Mayor

the thing about JOATs in other factions is that it can do things that no other role is able to do in their faction, which is what I'm trying to figure out how to do here
instead of trying to reform this into the revealing aspect of mayor, shift the concept into JOAT instead
and just wack the current core concept

covert radish
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Mayor can just reveal itself without consequences
-# Ignoring the Conjurer consequences

hexed hawk
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You said that Pros stepping into Mayor's niche is Prosecutor's problem, and I think it isn't

covert radish
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The examples so far have been mass roleblock, mass defense

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Which are both incredibly overpowered, and stronger versions of other roles' niches

high star
covert radish
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One of them is literally admirer's ability

covert radish
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Because there is no core idea behind it

covert radish
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Why does Mayor need to be a JOAT other than "to give it a different niche"

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-# Which also, isn't a niche but that's besides the point

high star
covert radish
hexed hawk
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It seems as though giving Mayor a unique niche of some kind that other TPows didn't have was the first priority, and deciding what that niche would actually be came second
JOAT is simply the easiest way to make any role different, so that's probably how this happened

covert radish
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It's the Core Concept

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Giving Mayor a secondary JOAT ability is not helping the core concept in any way

dark crown
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i feel like it should do one and not the other

high star
covert radish
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The primary focus was "let's throw stuff at mayor and see what sticks"

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Which,

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Is exactly what I have done yes

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But it's also not going to work most of the time

dark crown
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if mayor was turned into the suggestion but lost its reveal status, wouldnt prosecutor become the "reveal tpow"?

covert radish
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And I think it's because you can only stumble into a solid core concept with that

high star
hexed hawk
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there isn't a single "reveal TPow"

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because three of the TPows do that

covert radish
dark crown
covert radish
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It's the invisible cracks in the idea

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Is my point

covert radish
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You can't see them but there's no framework

high star
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definitely NOT politely

covert radish
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With no framework, the idea will inevitably collapse

high star
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so what you're saying is that

covert radish
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The concept needs a solid foundation

high star
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JOATs have no framework, thus will collapse
PM = no framework???
baker = no framework???

covert radish
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Actually kind of correct yes !

high star
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arguably they've held up decently

covert radish
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In baker's case

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It only works because Baker is apoc's like, utility dump

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PMer is, to be honest, just played like Consig

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Who in niche situations can heal someone

hexed hawk
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Baker was necessary because you have only 4 roles (or i guess 5 now) that need to carry the abilities of an entire faction

covert radish
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And, Baker is played like Consig as well

hexed hawk
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Baker is a symptom of Apoc just not being very good as a faction

covert radish
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mhm

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100% agree on that

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Baker is trying its best to give Apoc a whole category's worth of utility

dark crown
covert radish
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But yeah, typically JOATs are not great ideas. Even if they have like, a standout great ability, you could just make that the core concept

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Look at investigator

dark crown
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apocs used to originally only have one being able to exist

covert radish
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Tresspassing is a great ability

high star
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the hard part is that town is the majority of the roles in tos2 so it's hard to figure out how to avoid it clashing with a role's niche
Once it is solved, this is a viable rework
I think this is a very vaild even ground to settle things on

covert radish
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Blood, literally the nichest thing

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You can make Investigator just check for Tresspassing and it's still great

hexed hawk
covert radish
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Just that it can't randomly find killers anymore

covert radish
high star
covert radish
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Like I said, any JOAT is mainly played for one ability that works well

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And sometimes, they can have niche utilities

hexed hawk
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in FM each ability of a JOAT is one charge usually, to prevent this

covert radish
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ESPECIALLY in town's case though, making a JOAT actually hurts role diveristy

hexed hawk
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Forum Mafia

covert radish
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There's an issue

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Now, I'm not claiming to know everything about those roles you mentioned, so there can be other reasons

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But if that's the pure reason there is an issue.

hexed hawk
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i mean

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I'm no stranger to "X role works in FM but not in ToS"

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I believe that about Jester, for example

covert radish
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Yeah there's also the same thing of the amount of time games take, the overall ecosystem of the games and what roles are in play etc

hexed hawk
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yeah, uh

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Mayor, though.

covert radish
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Yeah

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Mayor's main issue is honestly Prosecution and Conjurer

hexed hawk
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I disagree.

covert radish
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Mayor has a fine niche

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Tell me this

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If prosecutor was just deleted

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Would Mayor still have a problem

hexed hawk
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Yes.

covert radish
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With other roles stepping its boundaries

hexed hawk
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Yep.

covert radish
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Okay, go on

hexed hawk
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Marshal still exists.

covert radish
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Marshal is also incredibly volatile, it can't just reveal whenever it wants

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And it gets an extra vote only during tribunal

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It's far from being a stronghold to keep voting in town's favour

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Yes, Marshal can turn around a bad situation for town, but so can every TPOW

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Mayor simply existing can do that

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It has an entirely unique core identity to Marshal

high star
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I think marsh also steps in mayor

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tbh

covert radish
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Why?

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I assume Mystic is gonna say why she thinks this ofc

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But you can feel free to as well

hexed hawk
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Mayor can't really be carried by the reveal because:

A: The other revealing TPows (in vanilla, which is what I'm more familiar with) are nearly always better than Mayor, since they both reveal and provide an extra kill while Mayor just controls the existing trial. In BToS2, Prosecutor is in its S1 form, which was just a worse version of Mayor (and that doesn't help matters either)

B: The advantage of being able to use its 3 votes longer than Marshal and Prosecutor doesn't work when Mayor's longevity is crippled and games are lightning fast.

covert radish
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Keep in mind, we're pretending Prosecutor doesn't exist here

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Because I'm trying to prove that, if you take Prosecutor out of the equation there is no problem

hexed hawk
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Marshal still just

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outclasses Mayor

covert radish
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Marshal has an extra vote and can cause two lynches in one day

hexed hawk
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Yes

covert radish
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Which is a great ability, and it's very strong

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Because it brings more utility to town

hexed hawk
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Marshal controls four trials and kills an extra 2 people in 2 days
Mayor controls however many trials it can survive for, which usually isn't that many.

covert radish
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It can also easily backfire, because it doesn't have the voting power to hold up its own tribunal should it happen too late

covert radish
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Because killing extra people is an entirely different utility to Mayor

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It's a different niche, as they say

hexed hawk
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The issue is that Mayor can't survive that long and that controlling a trial is worse than controlling a trial AND getting to kill an extra person on top of that.

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Mayor's just outdated.

covert radish
high star
covert radish
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It can lead to more kills

hexed hawk
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Mayor was clearly designed around being the only role with an instant reveal button and falls to the wayside now that it isn't.

covert radish
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See

dark crown
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i feel like mayor just doesn't have as large of a presence as other tpow roles

covert radish
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The thing is, Marshal is more powerful sure

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If it plays well

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And if Trials don't get hijacked

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And if it uses Tribunal early enough to prevent that

hexed hawk
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Judge can hijack a Mayor reveal too

covert radish
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Great, Marshal is using its core concept well in order to get more kills.

hexed hawk
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they get the same amount of votes

dark crown
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marshal is far more common

hexed hawk
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I haven't see a judge do anything because lolvanilla

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but

hexed hawk
covert radish
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So, Mayor is still in its own bubble where it fully controls its own votes, has enough to almost out-vote a full evil faction, and it can reveal whenever it wants without possibly costing the game

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What's this about needing to fully overhaul it?

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And more on that, how does this idea even change Mayor's niche in the first place?

dark crown
hexed hawk
covert radish
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It's giving Mayor an extra ability on top of its niche

covert radish
dark crown
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and if town does poorly enough, mayor's revealing does nothing

covert radish
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The issue is survivability

hexed hawk
covert radish
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Like I said at the beginning

dark crown
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survivability IS a huge issue

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actually

hexed hawk
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I never defended this version of Mayor

covert radish
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Right

dark crown
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i think that'd fix almost every issue current mayor has

hexed hawk
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Except the part where games are still too fast for Mayor's advantages to shine

covert radish
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So, you think it's more important to look into the core concept of Mayor itself

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That's fine

hexed hawk
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even if the Mayor doesn't die, it's still a worse Marshal.

dark crown
high star
dark crown
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i once had a game where a marshal was pushed to revealing d2, killed 2 townies, then died the next day because town thought he was TT

covert radish
#

But anyways

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Point was

high star
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this kinda turned into the mayor discussion: the thread

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LOL

covert radish
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This doesn't follow Mayor's core idea or give it a new one

dark crown
hexed hawk
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It just kills one townie

dark crown
#

worst that happens is you get courted

hexed hawk
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or that

high star
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There was one more idea we had which was the one that spiralled into this actually
the election varient

hexed hawk
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it can still kill a single townie rather than 2 townies if it has a bad take

dark crown
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but even that isnt that large a negative

hexed hawk
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Marshal is stronger

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which means if it fucks up

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the consequences are greater

dark crown
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marshal is only stronger right now because mayor has no survivability

hexed hawk
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this doesn't make Mayor better because it can't fuck up as badly

dark crown
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i'd say they'd be balanced if mayor could live one night without needing some random BG

covert radish
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Slapping a JOAT on top of Mayor's ability sadly isn't really the way to go imo

dark crown
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(whats joat)

covert radish
#

Jack of all Trades

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Like Potion Master

dark crown
#

oh okay

covert radish
#

Or Baker

dark crown
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oh got it

covert radish
#

Basically anything that has an assortment of loosely / not at all connected abilities it can use

dark crown
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i feel like baker is a really weird role

covert radish
#

In terms of abilities
A jack of all trades, master of none is pretty bad.
A jack of all trades, master of one, tends to lead to the quesiton of, well why don't you make that the core ability then

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Because that one "mastered" ability is all the role will be used for

dark crown
covert radish
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Pmer being basically just a Consig, for example

hexed hawk
covert radish
dark crown
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(its just bad)

covert radish
#

🙃

dark crown
covert radish
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Both of which give it just a little bit more survivability

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Because I don't think mayor needs to be a "WOAH LIVE FOR THE WHOLE GAME" ability to work

hexed hawk
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but mayor doesn't exist in a vacuum

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it exists in a game where other roles exist, have the hard reveal that Mayor does, and are useful outside of just the endgame

dark crown
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isnt it up to the player then to survive to an endgame so they can take advantage of their ability

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wait no

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that doesnt respond at all to that

dark crown
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where being forced to reveal could make town lose on the spot

hexed hawk
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It could also make town win on the spot

dark crown
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but if marshal is forced to reveal, it likely wont do that

hexed hawk
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The lows are low, yes, but the highs and even the mids are much higher than Mayor gets.

dark crown
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mayor can reveal without any risk

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marshal cant

covert radish
#

I think it's the execution of both mayor and the other Tpows

hexed hawk
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I mean

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yes

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Mayor was fine in ToS1

dark crown
hexed hawk
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Because it was designed around being the only hard reveal role

dark crown
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not tpow

covert radish
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I didn't wanna rely on this point earlier, because it was said for pros too but
Mayor being outmatched by Marshal is also a marsh problem.

Marsh and Jailor are near tied for the best winrates by far

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Marsh + Jailor = too strong
Pros = too weak + stepping on a pre-existing niche

primal meadow
dark crown
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thats the general power level of TPows

covert radish
#

mhm !

primal meadow
dark crown
#

the solution isnt to buff everything to marsh and jailor level

covert radish
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Well, I'll admit Mayor is slipping down

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But that's on an execution level methinks

dark crown
#

its to bring stuff down to mayor and monarch level imo

covert radish
#

The core concept of mayor is fine

hexed hawk
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I also think

covert radish
hexed hawk
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Maybe Mayor shouldn't be there if other hard reveals are gonna exist...

covert radish
#

Mayor and Marshal can get away with both existing

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If Marshal is less powerful

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Mayor and current btos Pros can't get away with both existing

dark crown
#

and pros just needs to be fixed

covert radish
#

I think Pros is the one that needs the rework

dark crown
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yeah pros is worthless

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i tried to make a pros rework but i just made reverse monarch so i scrapped it

covert radish
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Mayor does need a rework of some description too

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Like I say, I like Wave's and Temp's reworks

drifting canyon
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I don't think getting rid of pros will solve mayors problems

covert radish
#

My entire point was that Mayor does not need some overhaul that changes its core identity though

covert radish
drifting canyon
#

Mayor should and always should've been the role with less risk to it entirely but a flatter reward

covert radish
#

I did say Pros should change

drifting canyon
covert radish
drifting canyon
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Pros and mayor are more fun when one has higher risk reward

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and the other has lower risk and a flatter reward

covert radish
#

Honestly though

drifting canyon
#

current pros has basically 0 reward and like a 7 risk out of 10 so mayor just outclasses it

covert radish
#

If you look at it that way

hexed hawk
covert radish
#

I think Marshal does the way better job of being a spicier mayor

drifting canyon
#

Marshal has higher risks

covert radish
drifting canyon
#

if you fuck up a tribunal marshal is like one of the worst roles ever

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Mayor doesn't have that problem

hexed hawk
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If you fuck up anything it's really bad

drifting canyon
#

but Marshal has higher highs than Mayor

covert radish
#

Exactly what I think too though

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I don't think we all disagree here

drifting canyon
covert radish
#

Mystic, do you think Mayor needs a full overhaul

drifting canyon
#

a marshal just provides more

covert radish
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Like, entirely new core concept

drifting canyon
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when a better player has Marshal rather than Mayor they do more

hexed hawk
drifting canyon
covert radish
#

Yeeaaaa, I was thinking maybe I was mistaken but I suppose not

drifting canyon
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Mayor does need an overhaul

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its tos1 counterpart legit has no effect on the game here

covert radish
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Like, change it so it's not a revealing role with 3 votes anymore?

high star
#

yeah, that

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is

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probs

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a idea

drifting canyon
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(that or slow the game down to a reasonable speed where Marshal and Pros don't have major advantages over it when they're free kills)

covert radish
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Ah yeah I can't do this whole argument again

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It's come full circle now

hexed hawk
drifting canyon
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it needs to do something else when revealed

hexed hawk
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but losing its reveal is an option

drifting canyon
hexed hawk
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I would not be hard against that

covert radish
#

I think we're looking in the whole wrong direction honestly

drifting canyon
#

I think it needs to keep it's open identity

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Mayor as a role is a role you expect to pop out and be like

drifting canyon
#

"hey I'm the mayor!"

covert radish
drifting canyon
#

I know them less since I just got here but I have a basic grasp of them

covert radish
#

I think Mayor can function as is right now, with a rework and with Pros getting reworked

drifting canyon
covert radish
#

Mayor's not leagues from the ideal power level, it's just weak

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And I think the core concept is already solid

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It wants to be a simple role

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As chilly said, flat power level

drifting canyon
#

you want a (in general) weaker player to have Jailor rather than Vigi

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because the error for messing up isn't that bad as compared to Vigi

covert radish
#

I think that's a weird example to use

drifting canyon
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and then vigi is more rewarding for the space it occupies

drifting canyon
covert radish
#

Jailor has a lot more power, sure the reward for misuse isn't dying but you become a potato

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Which is not ideal for the strongest TPOW

drifting canyon
#

being a confirmed potato

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is a lot better than having 2 dead townies

high star
#

(Mayor discussion: the thread)

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💀

hexed hawk
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yep

covert radish
#

Every thread goes like this

hexed hawk
#

at least it's stuck to Mayor for the most part

covert radish
#

True

drifting canyon
#

I mean you're trying to overhaul the role so we're obviously just gonna discuss the role of Mayor

high star
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I should tbh start posting daily discussion threads

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that'll be a good idea

hexed hawk
covert radish
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The last thread started talking about vision differences depending on biological sex

drifting canyon
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if we didn't have Marshal in the game

high star
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focus on a role for a day, then end with a rework that ppl can agree on

drifting canyon
#

pros and mayor wouldn't be as problematic

hexed hawk
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Well I play vanilla, so Pros would still outclass Mayor

drifting canyon
#

because Pros would literally die if they fucked up compared to Mayor

hexed hawk
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since vanilla pros is a Marshal sidegrade

covert radish
#

Except vanilla Pros is

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Goofy as hell

drifting canyon
#

vanilla pros is

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so bad man

hexed hawk
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A Marshal sidegrade.

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With Hangman.

drifting canyon
#

I think it's the worst out of all the TT tpows now as well

hexed hawk
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FUN.

drifting canyon
#

since it just becomes outted tt and sits there

covert radish
#

Marshal Sidegrade (derogatory)

drifting canyon
#

and pros was my favorite role

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still is too

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anyways

hexed hawk
#

but yea

drifting canyon
#

Mayor needs a change to what it does after revealing

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in order to keep it from being reveal with all the extra sauces ontop

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aka what this suggestion is

covert radish
#

This is 100% mayor with sauce on top

hexed hawk
#

Oh true

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like I said, I never endorsed this Mayor

#

I just

covert radish
#

I mean, I'm obviosuly not a fan of changing the core identity of Mayor. But, if you can come up with a concept that actually works well I'll be honest about it

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I'm not here to be a hater

hexed hawk
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Mayor as is wants a slow game to even try compete with Prosecutor(V) or Marshal on average.

And that doesn't happen when either of those roles exist at all. Or all of the other things ratcheting up the pace of the game.

covert radish
#

Go for it yaya

drifting canyon
#

honestly

drifting canyon
#

I think old Socialite would be really cool with Mayor

covert radish
#

Slowing the game down is one of the big goals of BTOS

drifting canyon
#

but in a unique way where you add players to a chat at night

covert radish
#

Lots has been done in that regard

hexed hawk
#

And I don't think it's succeeded in that

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Not yet, anyway

covert radish
#

Well

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I actually disagree

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The game is DEFINITELY more managable

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Than vanilla

hexed hawk
#

The things you'd need to do

drifting canyon
covert radish
#

But, I agree it's not all the way there

dark crown
hexed hawk
#

nerf TK, nerf TPow, lower kill power of TP

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nerf CK

covert radish
#

Mhm

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Yea

drifting canyon
covert radish
#

Those things are all on the radar

hexed hawk
#

Not that vanilla has made much progress in that regard

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but BToS2 hasn't either
And NPs speed up the game pretty substantially

covert radish
drifting canyon
#

probably the best we ever had

covert radish
hexed hawk
covert radish
#

Mkay

hexed hawk
#

i mostly play vanilla.

dark crown
#

im kinda sad about the state vanilla is in rn

hexed hawk
#

I am too

dark crown
#

it feels unplayable

hexed hawk
#

but I see that the big boy issues in vanilla aren't really addressed in BToS2, and power creep is overall higher.

covert radish
#

Oh yeah I haven't touched vanilla since BTOS came out

dark crown
#

there's nothing stopping 5 tpows from revealing

hexed hawk
#

There's a lot of buffs and not a lot of nerfs.

covert radish
#

That's not true

hexed hawk
#

Prosecutor is really the only one that hits the root issue.

dark crown
drifting canyon
covert radish
#

LUL

dark crown
#

oh it was intentional?

covert radish
#

I'm not gonna act like I play tons of of BTOS though, I have a decent handful of matches but

drifting canyon
#

they intended for pros to be the way it was

covert radish
#

I mostly play BOTC now

balmy cedarBOT
#

UninspiredUsername

  • Wins: 309
  • Losses: 353
drifting canyon
#

I asked if they'd ever set pros to it's current vanilla state

dark crown
#

i have a few games

hexed hawk
#

they didn't feel like transfering it to its vanilla counterpart when S2 dropped.

covert radish
#

LUL

drifting canyon
#

and they said maybe but never did it

hexed hawk
#

Honestly

#

understandable

dark crown
covert radish
hexed hawk
#

Marshal sidegrade.

drifting canyon
dark crown
covert radish
#

It wouldn't be that hard for them to adapt the vanilla version

hexed hawk
#

Oh I agree

drifting canyon
#

if Marshal never got added to vanilla pros would've never been a marshal sidegrade

dark crown
#

its marshal but you have direct control of your tribunal trials

covert radish
#

I'd still be iffy about Pros

drifting canyon
hexed hawk
dark crown
covert radish
#

At least, with Marshal it's not a 1f1 deleter

dark crown
#

but in btos2 it isnt

drifting canyon
#

pros has more risk

covert radish
#

Vanilla pros only isn't because of hangman

hexed hawk
#

^

covert radish
#

Which is wacky balancing

drifting canyon
#

the fact you die instantly for being wrong

#

makes people not wanna play it

covert radish
#

But it... works?

dark crown
covert radish
#

Yeah

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It "works" though, for the time being

dark crown
#

if a vigi shoots a townie, its -2 town

covert radish
#

Do not rip hangman out of vanilla pros

dark crown
#

which completely screws town over

hexed hawk
#

let's just make 3 roles our absolute bitch - hangman

covert radish
#

At least Modded pros has no hangman

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Or Deputy

dark crown
covert radish
#

It's just Vigi and, I hope that can go too at some point ngl

hexed hawk
#

it can but you'd have to hit it with the nerf gun

dark crown
#

if you reduce vigi's shot count to 2 and remove hangman i think it's fair

covert radish
#

I was against it in the past but I've come around to reworking vigi so it can be removed

drifting canyon
#

🔥

covert radish
drifting canyon
dark crown
drifting canyon
#

yikes

covert radish
#

Oh yeah, hangman also at least happens at the end of the day in BTOS

dark crown
covert radish
#

But in general, the amount of deaths is way way way lower than vanilla

hexed hawk
#

I once played a BToS2 game where the hangman was just glitched and didn't happen at all

drifting canyon
dark crown
drifting canyon
#

surely killing 25% of the coven team and like 9% of mine is fair

dark crown
#

yeah thats an issue

#

that'd encourage a body-guard like meta

#

didn't think too hard about it

dark crown
covert radish
#

I tried a BG rework to remove the dying + counterattacking

#

I've fallen out of love with it since tho

drifting canyon
covert radish
#

But I do think removing those from BG and overhauling it entirely is not a bad idea

hexed hawk
dark crown
#

and enfringes on its territory

hexed hawk
#

I mean

drifting canyon
#

deputy cannot function as a night role

hexed hawk
#

Deputy is its own can of worms

drifting canyon
#

it will either be top tier dog

#

or low tier god

#

no in-between

covert radish
#

Vigi does not make designing TKs easy

dark crown
hexed hawk
dark crown
#

it did absolutely nothing

drifting canyon
covert radish
#

Current btos Deputy is in a fine state imo, like it's acceptable where it is for the time being

drifting canyon
#

maybe that's just cause tos1 was a better game overall idk

hexed hawk
#

current btos2 deputy makes me viscerally angry

drifting canyon
#

its weird how vigi went from feeling more fair in tos1 to feeling awfully overpowered in tos2

dark crown
covert radish
#

I think it's symptomatic of there being more tk to compare it to

hexed hawk
#

Oh hey the topic drifted to TK

dark crown
#

jailor vigi and vet were the only 3 tks

drifting canyon
dark crown
#

and vh but shut up

covert radish
#

And VH 🤓

drifting canyon
#

maybe 10% better at best

covert radish
#

LUL

zinc pelican
dark crown
drifting canyon
#

that'd make it feel more oppressive then

covert radish
#

Vet was also way stronger, because it was Unique

dark crown
#

and rb immune

covert radish
#

So it was just a strong ass claim

dark crown
#

WHY IS IT NOT RB IMMUNE

drifting canyon
#

oh yeah vet was fucking godly

zinc pelican
#

That was back when vet was fun

covert radish
#

I think being Unique was the main part

zinc pelican
#

now you get hard countered by poisoners

covert radish
#

It was low key a tpow

zinc pelican
#

:(

hexed hawk
zinc pelican
#

Guys hear me out

covert radish
#

People respected the Vet because it had great survivability

zinc pelican
#

turn mayor into TOS1 Vet

covert radish
#

surely

hexed hawk
#

Oh god.

zinc pelican
#

there fixed the role for y'all

hexed hawk
#

Anyways, uh

#

I tried to do a whole TK thing but I don’t think the roles were very great

zinc pelican
#

nothin' a bit of frontier justice can't fixe

#

salem (Texas)

hexed hawk
#

The main issue tho is that

covert radish
#

I wonder how much the psychology of the vet icon looking much wimpier in tos 2 plays into it

hexed hawk
#

Vigi is too strong to make other TKs work without bullying Neutrals

zinc pelican
#

vigi should be gutted

dark crown
covert radish
#

look at the glow-down ngl

dark crown
#

poor guy

zinc pelican
hexed hawk
covert radish
#

You can feel how fragile the badge is in tos 2, it's like on a hinge

dark crown
#

hm

hexed hawk
#

Yeah

#

Vigi as a TPow is just worse Jailor

#

So no

dark crown
#

yeah

#

it'd kinda need an overhaul

zinc pelican
#

vigi should either lose a bullet, be forced to reload, or have to preemptively aim at someone to shoot them

hexed hawk
#

If you want to see what I’ve attempted with TK I can link it

dark crown
#

to remove hangman

hexed hawk
#

Since this is off topic

hexed hawk
#

#1285997333024346123 message

zinc pelican
#

or it could be a delayed kill

hexed hawk
#

Anyway

#

Mayor

zinc pelican
#

explain

hexed hawk
#

Not here.

zinc pelican
#

;(

hexed hawk
#

The point was to get the TK talk out of this here Mayor thread

drifting canyon
#

Mayor mayor mayor

covert radish
#

I mean I don't moderate people staying on topic

#

Conversations should be allowed to flow

drifting canyon
#

can I just say mayors tos 1 icon is cooler

covert radish
dark crown
zinc pelican
#

eh nah

covert radish
zinc pelican
#

tos1 one was better

covert radish
#

To be 100% honest here

#

I actually like the TOS 2 icon a bit more

#

It has more character imo

zinc pelican
#

Eh IDK

#

pretty hard to not notice that the guy with a big ass mustache and a monocle is the mayor

#

whereas big hat mayor can hid anywhere by removing their hat

covert radish
#

kill da mayor

drifting canyon
#

and women don't have beards!!

#

or moustaches

covert radish
#

u know which role icon had the biggest glow up tho

#

Spy 100% imo

dark crown
covert radish
#

Spy's new icon is so unnecessarily cool

dark crown
#

the tos2 icon is so much better

covert radish
primal meadow
covert radish
#

Spy still the biggest glow up imo

#

Yes

zinc pelican
#

Inspector gadget aaah look

primal meadow
#

Eh

dark crown
#

fair

covert radish
#

TOS 1 vs TOS 2 icons

primal meadow
#

I liked the bug

dark crown
#

og vamp was cool

covert radish
#

Temp

dark crown
#

not gameplay

primal meadow
#

No I mean

#

The bug icon

#

The radio

dark crown
#

oh

primal meadow
#

I liked that icon

covert radish
#

but but but

#

Spy is so cooooool

dark crown
zinc pelican
#

yeah well now spy upgrade his stuff and uses a cup against a wall

primal meadow
covert radish
primal meadow
#

The colors are cool, but that’s about it

dark crown
#

he's lowkey a cia agent

covert radish
#

I think it's just because its so like, mysterious and spy became this like full on character

#

I really like it

#

Although the ability icon

#

Uhh I think it looks weird

dark crown
nocturne flame
#

what is he doing

steep sedge
covert radish
#

I guess it's a funny way to explain how spy finds stuff out

#

Oooooo

zinc pelican
covert radish
zinc pelican
#

don't tell me how it allows them to detect hexes and stuff

dark crown
primal meadow
zinc pelican
#

is the hex master legally obligated to announce who they are hexing?

tawdry igloo
#

Lookout: Yk you can just use a telescope right? 😭

primal meadow
#

It looks like a traffic cone

covert radish
#

I don't like the ability icon as much

primal meadow
#

Which reminds me of how dirty HM’s silhouette was done

steep sedge
# covert radish Oooooo

Someone else made a CTT version that has the funny lines, I made that rec a while ago. I could really fix this up with my new skills but it does look perfect in-game

covert radish
zinc pelican
primal meadow
#

The icon slaps

covert radish
#

phew

primal meadow
#

The silhouette does not

covert radish
#

Aah

zinc pelican
#

why is sex master a dwarf

dark crown
tawdry igloo
#

hes giving twink

covert radish
#

tos 1 HM skin was cool

zinc pelican
#

they look puntable

dark crown
#

what does this mean

tawdry igloo
#

its a meme

tawdry igloo
primal meadow
tawdry igloo
covert radish
#

Oh ma god

tawdry igloo
#

This cutie

covert radish
#

That's so well madeeeee

zinc pelican
primal meadow
primal meadow
tawdry igloo
#

LOL

primal meadow
#

I don’t remember which one though

#

It just looks familiar

zinc pelican
primal meadow
#

Literally the same person

#

Mushroom HM is real

covert radish
#

Uhh Night Cap

tawdry igloo
#

We love mush hex

#

lol

covert radish
#

I only remember it because of BFN

steep sedge
#

The revenge of mushroom man

zinc pelican
primal meadow
#

Town when Hex Master places down their Doom Shroom:

zinc pelican
#

Salem (Japan)

#

I wonder how many "Salem" town there is

#

WOW A LOT

#

welp found where vet is from

mental kernel
#

What if defensive just grants RB/control immunity

#

Or is that included with being accompanied in supportive

high star