GeorgeBailey's Mini Normal Review, October 2021

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Subject: Normal Queue Thread (Players and Mods)

/in to mod setup designed by Datisi

1x town encryptor-finder
1x town novice pt cop
1x town friendly neighbour encryptor
7x vanilla townies

2x mafia backup encryptor
1x mafia informed neighbourizer (there is a friendly neighbour encryptor in the game)

Could Datisi also have access to the review thread?

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Primary: mastina
Secondary: Gypyx

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how DARE you have a life outside the normal queue why i never

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oh i didn't even realize there was a gap between this and mastina's post i just randomly saw this in my egosearch :X

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I was kind of expecting that call to be more recent than in 2017. Honestly, thinking about it now... it's not really problematic. It certainly

feels

non-normal in some ways but it's distinctly non-problematic because the town will know that the traitor was "recruited" when it happens because, well, what else could a traitor enabler dying mean. The main cogent point that I think was made in that other thread is that a traitor being recruited goes against normals but I think it's not a problem given that it'd be publicly happening. I think this is also less problematic than that game bc that one had two traitors and like was mentioned scum might have had weird incentive to hardbus the enabler, which doesn't really exist here. Tbh it's potentially even a good design pattern as another way to give some negative utility to mafia without having to go as strongly as a full regular traitor.

So yeah I think I'm fine with it tbh.

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I think Datisi is right about how the role currently formally functions and that the issue is "enabler" is actually a misleading name. The phrasing of the normality section for enabler on the wiki implies this as well.