Here’s my new and possibly quite unbalanced setup which I am determined to balance by hook or by crook.
I held two separate versions of the game, and will call them Weird Princess 1 and Weird Princess 2 because the mechanics are rather different.
Weird Princess 1:
http://pastebin.com/5dgWD5Kb
1 Beloved Princess (would get a townie PM. When NK’d, next day would be skipped.), 1 Role Cop (would only get to know if targeted the BP), 1 Mafia Goon, 2 Vanilla Town.
Players: Bluji, Woon1957, SilverEvil, T6salt, aturtledoesbite
Winner: aturtledoesbite (Mafia Goon)
Comments: Having the BP know herself as a VT doesn’t seem to be very useful for town, not to mention the fact that it was horribly skewered against town because of the way the BP could be NK’d for the say skip effect. Note to self: Always make BPs require lynching.
Not much chance for deduction either, though I did think that town would pull through a win when Woon asked atdb what his opinion was (thought I detected a slight scumhunting edge on it). However, townie quarrel ultimately let atdb win without even hammering. Rather annoying, TBH.
Weird Princess 2
http://pastebin.com/V7RQBtjx
1 Beloved Princess (would get to know her real role. When lynched, next day would be skipped.), 1 Role Cop (would only get to know if targeted the BP), 1 Mafia Goon, 2 Vanilla Town.
Players: adv0catus, uuu2, Woon1957, SilverEvil, TheChaosNinja
Winner: uuu2 (Mafia Goon)
Comments: Still not balanced, unless town gets into in depth analysis of posts (notably, TCN made a very weak wagon close, and the argument between SE and adv0catus pretty much took town’s attention off uuu2 enough for him to pull through the win).
“That’s what I saw,smart mafia rarely kill someone they voted for. I say (vote SE)” was a pretty bad scumslip by uuu2 as TCN could also have done the same, and the way that uuu2 deliberately pushed the blame onto SE, knowing that he was already under pressure from adv0, was quite scummy. Nevertheless, even analysis aside, lynching the BP claimant was quite a bit of mistake. Now I wonder. Should the BP have claimed D1? What if the Cop gets lynched, which will make the BP claim pretty much unshakable? However, the Cop could also claim, which would make him the ideal NK target.
Thus, after some deliberation, I have decided that this setup is well guarded against a mass claim. My previously thought up changes to the mechanics viz that the BP invo would be announced seems like a stupid idea now. I am probably going to stick with Weird Princess 2 if I ever host it again.
The only change if I really want to have one, or if there is popular opinion in favor of it, will be to make the BP 1-shot Lie Detector, which might inspire more conversation.
Weird Princess 3
http://pastebin.com/YN5UbM7y
1 Beloved Princess (would get to know her real role. When lynched, next day would be skipped. Had a lie detection to be used at any time), 1 Role Cop (would only get to know if targeted the BP), 1 Mafia Goon, 1 Vanilla Town.
Players: SE, racefan12, Jaskaran, Taiboss
Winner: SE (Mafia goon)
Comments: Whatever racefan12 says, I am convinced that town lost its win because the Lie Detection wasn’t used timely. Scum pulled off another characteristic (for this setup) win, which is almost shameful for me since I thought this was easily very well balanced. Is there no answer to balancing this?
Weird Princess 4
http://pastebin.com/nRe3xRBd
1 Beloved Princess (would get to know her real role. When lynched, next day would be skipped. Had an investigation to be used during night that would only detect scum or not), 1 Role Cop (would only get to know if targeted the BP), 1 Mafia Goon, 1 Vanilla Town.
Players: SE, racefan12, Jaskaran, uuu2
Winners: SE (Beloved Princess), racefan12 (Vanilla Townie), uuu2 (Role Cop)
Comments: First town win in this setup! Must say, it was funny when everyone targeted Racefan12 N1. uuu2 managed to differentiate scum from town in the end (it wasn’t very hard, but still) helped quite a bit by SE’s rather convincing BP claims (so I thought). Rather a short game. Would have been better with 5 players, as I kept saying throughout the game.
Weird Princess 5
http://pastebin.com/7WQvzjij
1 Beloved Princess (would get to know her real role. When lynched, next day would be skipped. Had an investigation to be used during night that would only detect scum or not), 1 Role Cop (would only get to know if targeted the BP), 1 Mafia Goon, 2 Vanilla Town.
Players: Fricknmaniac, hamuka, PairofPliers, TheChaosNinja, SilverEvil
Winners: Fricknmaniac (Beloved Princess), hamuka, TheChaosNinja, SilverEvil (Cop)
Comments: Finally, I got to test out my supposedly very well balanced setup. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a cop-out (literally) with Frick getting scum N1. Well, the good thing is that he didn’t have to claim his role to convince hamuka. The bad thing is that he mentioned soon afterwards that he was afraid that he could have been an Insane BP T_T. Oh well. My quest will continue.