UPick Mafia Endgame

I still don’t understand how I died?

Did you put on the red shirt?

We have to reverse the results if there was a mod error. Sorry

If you put on the shirt, it didn’t matter. Read my passive ability. After either one of dies, the next night, the NK is unstoppable and undetectable

Thanks for a fun game everyone!

And double thanks to our host Austin, for the great concept, which was no doubt a ton of work to design.

Austin definitely had to hustle to put this game together. Thanks nigga

Don’t forget ur comments

ye, omw home rn

Bruh

i forgor tbh i should do that now

In terms of setup, I do believe that this balanced, even though it may not have seemed that way in the game. In general, I design my setups around a fundamental tenet of game design, which is "how you use your role is as important as how powerful it is." Almost every powerful town role in the game could easily have backfired. Joebob's commute could hide scum from a vig shot, while their strengthen could allow scum to have an extra-powerful NK. The neighborhood vig could have backfired (especially if scum infiltrated it), as well as the shirt.

The second tenet of mafia design I follow is that "role confirmation =/= affiliation confirmation". Savant's vote thief confirmed his role, but was obviously scummy as heck, while Pie's magistrate was a traditionally towny role. Town made the mistake of focusing too much on having a confirmed role without taking behavior into account.

However, with the way things went, town never, never, should have lost this. Pie and Casey were poe'd hard, town got a lot of kill power, and it should have been easy to shred. Wylted vigging Earth was a literal gamethrow.

That being said, about the other townies:

Barney showed generally solid play. Good choice of shirts, and auctioning early on was a risky move but ended up giving town a lot of alignment indicative info.

Joebob for town MVP - blocking two kills in a row is genuinely some of the best mechanical play I've seen in a while.

Savant needs to learn to not deathtunnel.

Moozer's role was interesting, and I really liked the design. I think waiting for the innocent child was a risky choice, but it was the correct play in the post d1-gamestate. Getting "caught" with Joebob was just really bad luck.

Luna played well. Shouldn't have overthought it at the end, but that's mylo for you (which, again, never should have been mylo).

Pie and Casey played this well. Especially Pie, his sheer amount of effort was simply incredible. If more players show that kind of effort, they'll find that it's possible to talk yourself out of even the most hopeless, game-screwed situations. That being said, pick a less obvious NK target :)

Yeah, tbh I'm still a bit surprised we won this one. Going from winning this game where we were really disadvantaged to CoC, where me and my scum buddy got a big early advantage and lost just goes to show how unpredictable this game can be sometimes. 

I have to ask: how hard was it to design my role? I chose it in part because I wanted to see what you would come up with. 

Yours was actually one of the easiest to design, funnily enough. The idea of a movie being watched lends itself nicely to your first ability, and I threw in the second in order to prove my point of role affiliation =/= affiliation confirmation (and you definitely should have used your Popular ability, idk why Pie said it's scummy)