In post 3457, Ausuka wrote:I feel like if a duplicate game had been passed through the NRG recently there wouldn't have been any uncertainty about this at all. Feel free to correct me if I'm angleshooting myself in the foot / reading too much into it / interpreting incorrectly but that's how I see this.
Actually not the case: if a game has been passed through the NRG, only the NRG members involved in that game know of the mechanics within...
...And because you can't, saaaaaaaaaaaaaaayy...discuss the existence of a mason tracker, while the game with the mason tracker is ongoing--not even backstage--it stays that way. Only implosion (the listmod) and the reviewers involved in the review (which happen to be two individuals) would know about it, until the game was well and truly over. Then and ONLY then if there is a question regarding the game would it be brought up backstage.
Now it
just so happened
that I actually AM a reviewer for the game...but near as I can tell, this information isn't publicized anywhere in the game. People who're NRG members would know it, but for plebeian gamers (so to speak), they'd have no knowledge of that fact.
Also, I was the secondary reviewer on this game, not the primary.
As the secondary reviewer, I did literally nothing, because as far as I know, my job as the secondary reviewer was to essentially do literally nothing. (This was one of the first games reviewed under the new system, and was my first game as a secondary reviewer, so I didn't quite know what the role of a secondary reviewer was, fully. I ended up doing almost nothing. So if you think the game's not well-designed, you can blame me; if you think the game's well-designed, you can thank Firebringer.
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So my statement really doesn't mean anything there, because I was barely involved in this game's creation at all. If a duplicate role was present, I'm not sure I'd even have been aware of it, given my role as a secondary reviewer rather than the primary reviewer.
