Originally Posted by
Auckmid
The answer to the first question is that the alignment for each role is randomized. As such, attempting to guess "what is balanced?" which is brought up in the second question is unneeded.
For the other part of the first question, which is the concern that this creates an unbalanced setup, may be a question you need to go more in depth on, but I'll try to answer the best I can...
-The ratio for mafia and town is fixed (9 to 4). I am reviewing this ratio, and might modify it if I feel that my current balance is off-point, but the ratio will always be pre-determined
-Each individual role is balanced so that it isn't too powerful if it gets randomed as a mafia role. Particularly, while kill roles like vigilante and jailor would usually be extremely powerful for the mafia to have, in this setup, the vigilante power can only be used to kill 1 town-aligned player, and the jailor only activates when the town makes the conscientious decision to not lynch.
-Some roles like bus driver are still going to be powerful for the mafia. However, this is something that the town needs to recognize. If the bus driver is appearing at all scummy, maybe he needs to take a higher lynch priority then the doctor who is also acting scummy. If he isn't getting lynched, maybe the escort should prioritize role blocking him so that he can't cause too much chaos. Unless the escort and bus driver are both mafia, which brings us to the third point...
-It is possible that the mafia could end up with all the roles of a certain class, such as all the protective roles, all of the investigative roles or all the disruption roles. However, it is the towns job to react appropriately to this situation. If the the investigation roles aren't bringing in anything useful, or are causing the town to mislynch, the town does need to consider that the mafia has a monopoly on them. If the protective roles aren't able to stop any of the kills, it needs to be considered that they could all be mafia aligned, or that disruption roles are creating issues and also need to be brought under question.
While the setup wasn't approved onsite by you, it was approved by Slaol as an admin who is active in the forums, who said that it was fine to post signups pre-approval