[REVIEW] Open Setup Reviews

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Post Post #637 (isolation #0) » Fri May 12, 2017 11:14 am

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Please review...
In post 0, Lycanfire wrote:Hollywood Mafia 13p

10v3
x4 celebrity
x6 VT

x1 mafia celebrity
x2 mafia goon

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Your celebrity status is confirmed at the start of the game

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Post Post #662 (isolation #1) » Sat May 05, 2018 6:21 pm

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Frayed Flag

10:3 mountainous

Mafia lose if their faction reaches 1.

First lynch of the game is flipless.

There's no breaking strategy

I intend to run it

Get good or go home

Come at me bros
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Post Post #664 (isolation #2) » Sat May 05, 2018 6:34 pm

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Sounds like there's no breaking strategy and can be run in the Open Queue
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Post Post #667 (isolation #3) » Wed May 09, 2018 9:04 am

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Admittedly it was a tongue-in-cheek suggestion made simply because people have been knocking towns for the past few months and nobody wants to do anything about it.

Making the first lynch flipless does do something. There's all sorts of theory that could be analyzed from this scenario. For instance, it almost entirely removes a white flag gambit from D2, unless the town is
really
good and certain they roped scum. With a townflip D2, town get to decide whether there's a white flag gambit going on or whether they are at LYLO.

Ordinarily, flipless is hard to work against. The White Flag mechanic changes that. A scumflip on days 2-3 solves the flip from D1. Blank-town-town going into D4 does the same. Town get thrown some critical information lategame.

This one addition completely changes the dynamic of White Flag. Is it harder for town? Yes. Do scum get more agency in their play? Oh, baby, yes. Would I pull it from queue if it wasn't close to being hammered in a week's time? I'm not a total asshole.
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