If the game feels heavily town-sided once it's played, we can always reconsider the numbers. For a good bribe, I can hook you up with the alignment you prefer.
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9-3 is calculated to be balanced with 1 lynch and 1 kill happening every cycle. This setup here however seems to have 2 lynches instead of 1 happening the first two days. That lynch difference is enough to throw off the balance and warrant a more scum favoring rate, from the what I can see here.
It would be very helpful if you could send me balanced vanilla-ish setups you know that are at least comparable to this game.
That goes to anyone else, too.
I thought 9-3 was balanced with PRs. And the addition of PRs is generally pro town. Raw 9-3 odds are scumsided.
Currently, towns need to get at least 3/6 lynches right to win. They need a 50% success rate.
Healvotes, in comparison to normal doctors, also seem heavily scumfavoring to me.
First of, not sure if I just missed it, but I think there's no mention of the scum being excluded from the anon voting process there. Gotta add that to the setup, or noone is of the heal targets is ever gonna get attacked.
Then, taking away a doctor also takes away one town player's ability to claim tpr, or to cc. Direct CCs are a townfavoring mechanic.
On top of that, healvotes are much easier to predict than one indivdual player's choice. You are dealing with a majority here, and this majority even has to make sure to not wildly vote different players, as that would result in the final target having to be chosen by the host.
Raw 9-3 with 1 kill and 1 lynch happening every cycle, and everyone voting entirely randomly with no deduction whatsoever, is mathematically balanced to an exact 50-50 rate.
I can't send you any comparable setups with double lynches the first 2 days anyway. I've never played something like that myself.
https://www.mafiauniverse.com/wiki/Mountainous
The most default vanilla vs Vanilla. If you want win rates, Mafiascum wiki is the place to search.
Vanilla + 1 cop = https://www.mafiauniverse.com/wiki/Cop_Setups
Vanilla + 1 Vigi = same as above with the cop, except 1 additional citizen
Those are the most standard setups.
Hope that helps
I tried looking a bit for the source where I've seen that, and while I couldn't find it, I found some other numbers on the mafiascum wiki (named "Numbers, Part 1"), suggesting completely different odds with random behavior. I myself don't agree with their numbers (they're saying 4-1 results in a 25% town win rate, objectively with random pickings I'm getting 47% however, as one example), but I remembered something else.
This 50-50 rate for 9-3 does not assume random votes, but a 50% success rate in lynching scum. I.e. the town would win once 3 scum are lynched, and the scum would win once 3 town are lynched. 2 town + 2 scum lynches puts one at 3-1.
The actual odds for a random lynch to be scum are actually lower than the odds of a random lynch being town. Sorry for that misinformation.
I largely agree with what you have to say here. The healvote is much weaker than a real doctor.
Also, the healvote results are announced, fyi, so it won't ever even stop the NK. Given the results are announced, I have to allow scums to win the healvote, otherwise the vote could be used for confirmation shenanigans.
I honestly think the most town-favoured aspect of the mechanic is that naiive scums might just vote eachother, a shady scum might win by RNG, then he'll basically be outed LOL.
The "mountainous" setup backs the current arrangement though. Without PRs, it suggests there should be 12 town for 3 mafia. Our setup has 9 town for 3 mafia but extra lynches.
Their setup demands town wins only 3/7 lynches against mafia, while ours demands town wins 3/6.
Here is done EV math on a lot of setups if y'all interested:
https://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php...The_EV_Project
Interesting.
Because, for example, White Flag's EV value is close to 50%. However - the actual win rate for Town is close to 30%:
https://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php...g_(Open_Setup)
This setup is quite unorthodox though.
Effectively 3 EoD's in 1 day for 2 days - EoD's typically give more info than anything else except flips.
Anti-votes being a thing, town core and reads lists are encouraged to establish earlier than usual.
The top townie is for sure living till Day3 - highly unusual.
Yeah, I do think the mechanics help town.
But we will see I hope.
I'm guessing a major issue with trying to balance setups is a general lack of data. 7 games is not enough to get a reliable statistical trend lol
Idk tbh
If you're interested in setup balancing, this is probably your best source:
https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums...-%28by-Apoc%29
At the end of the day, mafia require 4 mislynches to win and town requires 3 lynches to win.
Sounds fair to me, the game is decided by the play of the players and with no team needing to feel like the underdog.
Probably this one has a lot about balance too, though more about general setup designing: https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums...by-mhsmith0%29
@yzb25
I think these 2 setups show greatly how much players don't care if the EV balance is shifted slightly one way or the other:
https://www.sc2mafia.com/forum/showth...rum-Mafia-(9P)
https://www.sc2mafia.com/forum/showth...per-Basic-(7P)
They are identical except one has 2 more citizens than the other. But nobody seems to care, because at the end of the day - everyone got a fair chance at winning and everyone got a game.
Somehow, the fact that one setup is easier/harder for either alignment than the other - people seem to not care about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Having said that.
The default is:
# mislynches for scum to win = # scum + 1
Which is exactly what you have here.
I personally feel setups are passable so long as town and mafia have, at the very least, a 30% chance of winning. Idm if a setup leans one way or the other. In fact, I think skewed setups are interesting in their own right.
W.r.t. the white flag odds as well, in my opinion one can explain this heightened mafia winrate with all those calculations being done with the expectation of every player having an equal chance to be lynched.
In practice this expectation isn't met most of the time. Town members are generally easier to lynch, for once because the mafia is organized and knows their own - when there are 3 of them this means 2 more uninformed votes are required to get a mafia member lynched, compared to a town member.
The other reason I see stems from the mafia having no need to push their own opinion with their vote. They have an interest in joining or supporting any train there is as long as it's not aimed at their own. The town on the other hand needs to push their own opinion to have a fair chance, as giving the lynch decision away could potentially lead to it falling in the hands of a player who wants the majority lynched and wins with every lynch decision they willingly take.
Avoiding those two issues would probably require a town mayor who completely handles all decisions entirely on his own or a town that somehow decides all lynches in full unison without getting influenced by any individual opinions, and without allowing that to happen through unorganized votes.