#Make players terrified of jester again
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How so
Why do you need to have more of an effect on the game when you are dead?
the issue with jester is that it's an evil you can't get rid of
Changing people's alignment is a whole Neutral Special
this adds more jesters
I think the current prevailing opinion about Jester is that Jester is a role is bad
Not in the it's hard to win
its win condition is detrimental to the game
in that it forces town to make a decision on every evil player
This is why I removed the armor
This is the point of Jester
I mean, yeah. But its fun to play so it won't be removed. Still, the biggest problem by far is haunting evils for pushing mislynches.
That doesn't make it good
The biggest problem for town is that you can get punished for hanging an evil
Haunting a town only costs a smaller percent of life
and if town doesn't roll a vigilante or jailor?
That's also true but
Giving Jesters more playing time and making peeps more scared of them to encourage more skill
percentages
evil roles also exist
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bro im not gonna lie, this is so cursed that every evil in JR is going to claim jester on the stand
and if you think that the point of jester is to be a detriment to the game, then that's... an opinion.
People let jester get by too often
why would evils want to remove a jester they know exists.
Every single evil will claim jester, EVEN THE JESTER
Because Jester is Neutral, and Jester can hurt them in both this new way and the old way
This would provoke attacks given that jester cant gain armor
Neutral Evil, not Neutral Support
Mods, publicly execute this creature
but pushing a jester is more beneficial to evils because it both potentially kills a townie, and it wastes a day's trial so coven can plan for majority
If I'm correct with the wording, For every Jester hung every following Night a Random player becomes Jester, So Jester is a virus that takes over town???
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Yes
i said detriment to the game, as in to the game's balance. not to the players.
if evils spend time trying to hunt for Jester, they will lose the game to Town. This is a fact.
jester existing makes the game worse.
Yes
i had a whole rant about jester but i didn't post it in this server
Yes.
There's no gauranteed fact only evils will hunt jesters
5 players left and no one kills
Yes there is.
How does Town get rid of a Jester?
Tk???
4 players will become Jesters and the last 1 will win by random
the TK that died?
the veteran? the trickster?
There can be more than 1 tk
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or maybe the prosecutor and monarch!
Towns should hang Jester
yeah, that marshal's doing some good work, removing the jester and dying in the process
cause Jester now converts Coven into Jester
This isn't gauranteed i must say
The VETERAN.
@unique sigil big guy, my point is that TK won't always roll Vigilante.
It happenes every night
The craziest shit is that you are 100% right
LOL
and also, sometimes TKs don't want to kill jesters!
good pig sweep
there are typically bigger priorities
a jailor shouldn't be ignoring coven to go after jesters
vote with coven
Visiting and sus checks disprove jester claims
Jester claims only really work in AA
You are right but...
Not when Jester is this broken
oh, perfect, more roles that aren't guaranteed to spawn
As I said Town should hang a Jester
also coven can pass the necronomicon so the sheriff is a moot point
this is a good jester move if they can scumread coven but if they commune with whispers this can out covs
This Jester should claim D2, Town Should hang them and them hang more Jesters
Could potentially also have Jester appear as inno in all TI checks, since jester ingame is just a guy that fucks around
im open to suggestions
by the time coven has majority, you know who they are
This is an assumption of scenario in a game where scenarios are generated by chance
there is only one solution that fixes the problems jester brings to the game, and that is to pull the plug. however, that's not an option because "my silly haha role" so we're forced to deliberate on a "next best thing" solution instead.
Also the this is town Should hang Jester cause town will statistaclly win, but only 1 or 2 Town will win because hte rest become Jester
GIve it the Pirate treatment
Statistically i guess it is in town's favor
surprisingly, putting a role in a box and pretending it doesn't exist does nothing to actually fix the issues the role causes. pirate is still the worst role in btos2.
Make Jester OG Pirate 
Jesters are important, just like exes. We shouldn't remove roles because we have to doubt ourselves on what someone is
pirate isn't going to go away because people still vote TAA
I meant vinella making Pirate Inquitser as incompletly change it
Pirate was always an akward role and im glad it got the rework in base TOS2
Pirate went from my favorite role to my favorite role
the purpose executioner serves is to make town doubt their own team, since deception isn't good enough that TI results can be consistently doubted otherwise. the purpose jester serves is to make town doubt players acting suspicious. this is not equal, because if jester actually did what it was supposed to do, the game would slow to a fucking CRAWL.
TOWN MUST hang all Jester claims or they cant win
these cannot be compared in good faith, because what jester brings to the game is unhealthy. it discourages scumreading and social deduction, and makes players rely entirely on mechanical checks, and when you're making a social deduction game that's not exactly great.
Make Jester Chatterbox have a minimum of 34 
is this jester vampire
There are ways to scumread someone as jester
sob
I disagree slightly, Jester works really well in some SD games like Among us but can't work in TOS envornment
yes tell me a 100% method to differentiate an evil from a jester
whispers
Seer
Voting
oops, we didn't roll any seers! better luck next time!

yes but a jesters not gonna whisper a confirmed PM 3 times in one day consistently
seer sees jester as town so it can still be bad info lmao
Your target is a paranoid war hero. They must be a 🏅 Veteran!
yeah, making an evil into a jester will mean he can legally out his teammates, theres no reason not to
Veteran - Outsider
Also, Jesters will struggle to have a pattern in their poor voting since they don't actually know all the evils in the game
a jester will do anything it takes to appear evil. so a player who is evil and outed will do anything to appear like a shitty jester who's trying too hard. if you actually didn't hang players who seemed like jesters, nothing would get done.
this conf them as Jest they cant win
They can win if they trade it
hmm
yah
Another reason why evils might hurt jesters
not in a healthy way
but as I've said Town Should hang like 2 Jesters each game to have the highest chance of winning
its you must kill the jester or you have them threatening to collapse the entire scumteam
hanging a jester is wasting a trial, so an evil killing a known jester instead of letting them get hanged is actively sabotaging their own win condition
Unless there's a risk of jester hurting that evil
which, there always is in both versions
No every day someone new becomes a Jester at some point only one person will not be Jester and this person is statistically likly to be town
Again, I'm open to suggestions, but im hearing a lot more critics instead of those
I was trying to push the "keep the players playing" thing but i can see this being it
after a Jester is hung i really dont need them to keep playing
there's no need, but an option is what i was aiming for
theve won they can gloat root on other NEs or just leave
every day after they are hung
Why would anyone think more jesters is fun
Yeah ik its even worse
Its to make jester scarier
For every Jester hung, every night that many new players become Jester
no more "give jesters free win" nonsense
It makes it annoying
TOWN SHOULD HANG JESTERS
like how a jester would be?
Evils/town shouldn't become jester it then just make it unfair
Good Pig made an argument that statistically town should hang jesters as less evils need to be haunted for town to win than town to be haunted for evils
sounds like a good reason not to hang jester then
bad design is peeps giving the role who needs to be hanged the free win
(statistically)
No... It makes just unfun to play agents
Jester can never work in TOS2
It could
bad design is having jester in the game
so Just remove Haunt and be done with it
Like stated before I'm open to sugesstions, but Pig is the only one to give any
Good pig u do baits how good is this bait
Solo winning game ending Jester is better than this
Ive never baited
This seems to be the majority opinion, I may make another post sugessting it for the hell of it
My guys your being like the rest of us and having your feet in the mud
Hmmhm #1345819060994183228
I forgot about Haunt, and it would still be fun
I gave my idea and people gave reason why it would not be welcomed, its not a crime to change ideals
*funny
Yeah it is funny
Not fun to play vs
And coven to jest would know all coven
Thats just going to be a hell i dont want to see
I forgot to mention i intended for jester to also be unique but im unsure if that drastically affects the fake claiming scenario
This ruins the game after a Jester gets hung, and you cant convert factional evils which ruins the point
But the role can effect others into jest
D4 2 Jesters hung, oh look 2 new Jesters (:
Being unique doesn't make it better
Make everyone who guiltied a Jester get the Vanilla CS win con
Win Conditions:
- You cannot win.

Surv gamming maker
innoing exists but i see your point
and killing
Plz no that is def a joke
nah let them have abilies and become CS aligned (villila)
The point would have been this is so bad you may as well do this... Innoing was kinda part of the 'design'
Maybe jester can only exist as what Exe turns into and not a role that can appears at the start of the game
it needs to be gone or changed
base jester, that is
This makes it worse
Okay damn i hear you
exe shouldn't become jest
Maybe limit it to like turning one player to a jester
(Is this whats it like talking to me?)
Because every night seems a bit op
Good pig suggested this earlier, im ruminating on it
Imagine being coven and then becoming a jester now u need your own faction to let u win thats not eve cof to happen
WHY THE FUCK are we making jesters SHIT nieche stronger. it NEEDS TO BE GONE NOT BUFFED
I didn’t see that before, mbmb, listen to good pig imo
hanging jest must reap punishment
The issue with jester is that its shit role design
fun for me but not for thee
ahh role

I can tell this is the common belief, i considered making a bait post on suggesting it should be deleted lol
bad news
i just posted one suggesting to delete it
then whats the point of not hanging jest
No the punishment is worse then before
Hanging jest instead of evil wastes town's time
beat me to it
That's punishment enough already
Jesters punishment should be nullified or switched to being a special spawn
Someone each night willl become a jester and to win like one
(NS)
That's what I'm saying, remove haunt entirely
Like an apoc transformation?
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Ne pirate 
what i suggested for jest was
this is true but its clear no one cares since many townies say "give jest free win"
Cuz dying for being correct is bullshit
bc you hang evils in tos
so i'm ok with it
what if you kill it with hammers instead
Jester doesn't need punishment
They are forced to
Me after the sus guy was jest 😨
but then they just claim... o
but then "im jester hang me"
yah
no matter what you do jester will not work
They need todo something
exactly
Jester doesnt work without punishment and jester doesnt work with punishmenmt
TRUE
what you guys are saying doesnt work
I'd just rather jester without haunt if we must have it in the game
its better to lessen it
#GiveJesterPirateToInquisterTreatment
but i'm fine with that tbh
actual neutral benign
They won't get rid of jester tho 
that's survivor bro 😭
being fine with something doesn't euqal good design or engaging discussion
yah its a just an evil that town needs to hang at some point
Jester with no punishment is just survivor
Maybe Jester only wins if they get 80% votes or smth
we dont need surv 2.0
Lagspike has their anti-jest post up, I've thumbs upped it if this discussion would like to transition there
That doesn't sound like a fair thing
This post has sparked good discussion anyways so i'll be deleting it soon
Plus u only need 50% to win a game as jest
you cant
punishing people for the jester wincon is bad
Why?
not punishing them is also bad
actually straight up this might be a good idea
We are allowed to talk in the comments
Remove haunt, jester must receive over x% of votes to win
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I can see i can delete the post message, but it'll keep the post up?
That just makes jester get meta gamed
and it will never win
people will meta around it
Things have come out of this, i don't want it to be spread more negativity
i kinda fw it
What if u idk get silenced for a day
again, that's just survivor
yes
fw?
damned if you do, damned if you dont
fuck with, way to say i like it
Reminds me of that jackbos game, "Split the room"
U haven't need btos2 fan
Its interesting
What if Jester needs to have the vote be within a 60%-40% split to win, either being innoed or guiltied
what
Wdym what?
uhhh? now this is interetiing?
was this your way of saying iw ouldn't need to do that or do you imply something else
U need 51% to win
As 50% is half guilty and half inno
its a suggestion
an exact 50% would be quite difficult, and the number of townies wouldn't always align
Im saying everything gets thumbed down most of the time (negativity spreads much faster then positively)
He means this server is toxic, but just listen and become more competitve and adventially youll understand
^
Yeah so don't use numbers or % (im bad a math)
im afraid we've moved past that point in discussion, there's new food on the table
Calculator NE
Get given an Algebra problem:
Solve it before you die to win
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Maybe like exe where Jesters needs 1 person to guilty them but 1 other person to inno at the same time?
if one of them dies new target randomly assigned
People don't like Jester because it punishes people for hanging it
What if:
Jester haunted innos (and abstains)?
So in a tie u still would get hanged
Jester will never work
I like that as a passive
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might be true but there's another post for that
Every discuussion will become #off-topic expecet nothing different
That would just make everyone guilty all ways
Jester is a shit role and anyone who thinks its healthy for the game is shit at the game
it really wont tho
Your right lets hang jailor
i dont think thats true but i do think it would become a passive thing
It would 100% get metagamed
Sometimes it affects hanging but not always
if something is unfixable and unremovable bandgae it
This is the same game series where people would write names in wills to fuck over disguiser
its going to get meta gamed
Is that why ppl put names in wills?
yes
omg
just a die hard habit for me now
Same
i do it in tos1 to fit in but not in tos2
I saw others do it so i just followed
I made this suggestion but I'm seeing no replies, instead there's a lot of focus on doomer takes
I wish we could have the forge someone as pm to out others again that was fun
Secret Killers
I mean but where are there any brains?
Anything that makes people into jesters isn't a good thing
I'd change the haunting aspect as with this way there's no gauarntee to be guiltied
What about Coven aligned Jesters? how would that work?
Im about to rost this pig
Could say the same about your suggestions 
also jester needing to be guiltied doesn't seem to be the acceptable way for it to function
Both of you have given good input
I like to be surownded by brains almost feels like i have 1
Jokes on u i have 10
(cells)
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lol
Make it so you can accuse someone of being jester with a separate vote from normal lynching. If you are wrong jester wins everyone else loses and the game ends. Jester also wins if you just lynch him normally ending the game with everyone else losing. Then you make jester neutral special.
No
Just keep normal jester
as NS
Nooo
But one night is the best social deduction game and we need to make TOS more like it.
Because I said so.
I don't think a false hang should end a game, it happens too frequently
Jester isn't going to end games bc they won that would ask why other ne doesn't do that
NC
And if ne start ending game aa / taa would be a nightmare
Yes it would
Good point. Time to buff doomsayer, and exe. 😉
There going to be a extra body
Domm needs to Doom 1 person and then game ends
Start running
Ew conversion mechanics

hell no
Conversion is fun when the game is geared towards conversion
we love convertion W CS and Vamp
Which is like one role lol
#1345819060994183228 gamemode about convertions
No
People blatantly gamethrew with old vamp it was so toxic
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Vamp is isolated and its fine as is
people would dc after getting bit
Yep so this is that but every night
Vamp is isolated and it is fine as is
And not limit on it
send it to TAA fr

Add all good pigs ideas with it
welp now TAA has Tank
Ik that one
and TAA has no boaring roles
U really didn't make it clear that it wasn't a real tank
Plus invisible but dies when visted
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peak
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that was before my 'balence' days
also how does this suggestion help jester at all
people are just going to repeatedly hang jester claims
The convo has established this and there's been a change in direction
not half just 1, everyone else is Jest
Plus if everyone get turned into jest the draws are more likely to happen
Tank also was assigned to a new person everytime they died
oh wait
there could be an outbreak of jesters
lmao
EVERY NIGHT SOMEONE BECOMES JESTERS
oe 2 if 2 jests were hung
botc farmer type shit 😭
what does farmer do
there will be an outbreak of Jester
Farms*
if it dies at night, an alive goodie turns into a farmer
i cant remember if its to demon only
yeah its just dying at night
Its been established the proposed method wouldn't be welcomed or functional
Yep
Anti-jest talk can be directed to Lagspikes post, But i do still propose an idea where Jester is like exe and needs 1 person to inno them and 1 person to guilty them in one trial
does it still have to be guiltied?
Wait so u lose if its all guiltys?
yes
i wouldn't say so
That won't work
this is nothing like the role i read
jester i mean
the conversion on death
So u can't play too well as jester
farmer at least seems stable

Split votes exist
the 3 neurons in my skull fired up when i remembered farmer existed
Conspiracize and gain allies while also making enemies
Yeah i dont believe u should be punished for play well

This wouldn't follow the jester virus design
I can confirm there are only 3 neurons in there
Ik
well its definition of play good would change
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Make town terrifed but make jesters vulnerable was my line of thinking , but thats been exiled
How do u know🤨
I would still want Jester to have to be guiltied but at least one Inno, but that will probly get metagamed
Jester is a role can't work
@rare sandal has leveled up! (32 ➜ 33)
there's another discussion for this in suggestions
Thank you for confirming my point
LMAO
but wacky is good...
What was the og suggestion? He deleted it before I could see it
Hanging a jester made it so every night after a random person became a jester
essentially creating an outbreak you couldn’t stop
That sounds so silly
In a trib
What happens if marsh tries two jest and only two people are left
Are inno voters safe from jestification?
I have no clue its their suggestion
It might be guilty voters it might be everyone
The idea was really funny but sounds god awful to play against
The prime reason why it was deleted. There’s been a change in view and perspective and I didn’t want people repeatedly commenting on the outdated post
js lock the post