2014-08-24, 04:20 AM
I'm in for another game as usual. Overall, I'm actually rather pleased with my performance this game given the circumstances. I was wrong about Olsi, but right about MasPan. I got rather lucky with the Luv vs Cakes lynch, but the reasoning I had was sound. I never really expected the mafia to try to lynch their godfather so quickly lol so I guess Luv had me pretty well fooled. Kyrastri and MasPan deserve props for pulling it off so well.
My only serious complaint is the severe ambiguity in my role powers. I really think my Watergun description should have been more clear since it's thematically dead wrong. If you're going to turn a damage move into a status cure, you should probably let me know instead of leaving me to spray people futilely. Beyond that, HOW DID I EVEN DIE??? Meta had no kill ability and I should have been immune to damage from abilities anyway. If I had lived, I'm pretty sure the town would have won since the voting pretty much validated Cakes in my mind.
I don't overall have a problem with the power roles since just about everyone was equally overpowered, but the alteration of abilities as the game progressed WITHOUT warning was pretty ridiculous and in my opinion not fun. Niernen overstepped his bounds a bit and actively tried to influence the game. My Adventure ability should probably have never given me information about Meta's dolls and I think it really points to manipulation to make me suspicious of him. Kyrastri and TheBirds changing abilities at least made sense thematically and were spelled out in PMs. This was a good example of how this should have been handled. People like Cakes shouldn't wake up one morning to randomly have a shiny new power. I'm fine with some unscripted interactions between abilities like Polantaris+Kyrastri, but they need to make more sense logically/thematically to allow player skill to actually influence the game and not sow chaos.
My only serious complaint is the severe ambiguity in my role powers. I really think my Watergun description should have been more clear since it's thematically dead wrong. If you're going to turn a damage move into a status cure, you should probably let me know instead of leaving me to spray people futilely. Beyond that, HOW DID I EVEN DIE??? Meta had no kill ability and I should have been immune to damage from abilities anyway. If I had lived, I'm pretty sure the town would have won since the voting pretty much validated Cakes in my mind.
I don't overall have a problem with the power roles since just about everyone was equally overpowered, but the alteration of abilities as the game progressed WITHOUT warning was pretty ridiculous and in my opinion not fun. Niernen overstepped his bounds a bit and actively tried to influence the game. My Adventure ability should probably have never given me information about Meta's dolls and I think it really points to manipulation to make me suspicious of him. Kyrastri and TheBirds changing abilities at least made sense thematically and were spelled out in PMs. This was a good example of how this should have been handled. People like Cakes shouldn't wake up one morning to randomly have a shiny new power. I'm fine with some unscripted interactions between abilities like Polantaris+Kyrastri, but they need to make more sense logically/thematically to allow player skill to actually influence the game and not sow chaos.