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Gym Leader Choice Pokémafia 2 - Game Thread
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rari_teh
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tbqh i think that joat is a bit, uh, too underpowered for a badge action? this is an 18 slots setup, each person seems to hand out [1–3] badges upon death… most people will never get hold of a single badge throughout the entire game
as i said before, my badgepower has the potential of doing Good Stuff, but it requires >a lot< of foresight and, most importantly, luck; that’s why i don’t want people wasting their badges on me
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general q for the crowd, are we assuming 3p doesn't give out any badges then?
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also maintaining that this is not something to FoS negrek over, we just have no way of knowing and from my own role i really just don't think it's impossible or even necessarily improbable that the badge cost checks out
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rari_teh
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i was assuming they do hand out badges, but in reality i have no clue
i’m with bruh in this one
rari_teh
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i… don’t think lynching trigger-happy gunners is a good strategy
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what?
JackPK
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same
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this was another reason we were especially :/ at tofu (though, even without that theory, the read would remain) and also was why hydreigon was listed as a null/scumlean (they posted something that implied they didn't give out badges, but i think it's also possible that microreading their post was a bit of a stretch anyway.) just something in the back of our mind
-m
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why the thinking react tbh
rari_teh
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same reason as myuma
Mawile
C'EST LA VIE
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i was theorizing that maybe they only give out 1 badge each and have to decide whose badge power is most useful, but this could make sense too
JackPK
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ah, this is different from (but compatible with) my badge theory that I think I mentioned around the same time
I'll wait to share mine bc I think it might still be something that could be useful later (or, worst case scenario, if it's true, it could benefit mafia to hear it)
rari_teh
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they could also be prohibited from giving the badges to ingroups
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but then they'd be obligated to help town?
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rari_teh
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this would imply the existence of outgroups tbh
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to expand on this a bit, if we look at this from the bird's eye view of the game design, the badge mechanic is interesting because you're basically empowering other players based on trust. however, this doesn't really work with the mafia—due to their information advantage, they'd essentially just be receiving a free buff with each death they experience, which seems a bit strange/unbalanced. it seems more likely to us that mafia can't give each other badges, but that they do have powerful abilities that are activated if they manage to dupe town into giving them some. like, obviously there's no way of knowing this for sure, but it does just sort of seem to Make Sense from that game design perspective?
as mewt said, this is part of what made us so suspicious of tofu, since getting mixed up about badge distribution specifically fit into this theory really well, given that mafia would have to play it by ear here since they're excluded from this mechanic.
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