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Why is Tracker not being used?

Postby BasicFourLife » Fri Jul 06, 2018 3:41 am

I don’t see Tracker much in FM games. What’s the reasoning behind this?
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Re: Why is Tracker not being used?

Postby EvanManManMan » Fri Jul 06, 2018 6:01 am

Because the standards being run had setups created months ago when tracker was not deemed standard
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Re: Why is Tracker not being used?

Postby BasicFourLife » Fri Jul 06, 2018 6:04 am

EvanManManMan wrote:Because the standards being run had setups created months ago when tracker was not deemed standard

Why was Tracker not deemed Standard?
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Re: Why is Tracker not being used?

Postby EvanManManMan » Fri Jul 06, 2018 6:07 am

BasicFourLife wrote:
EvanManManMan wrote:Because the standards being run had setups created months ago when tracker was not deemed standard

Why was Tracker not deemed Standard?

You're an idiot
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Re: Why is Tracker not being used?

Postby BasicFourLife » Fri Jul 06, 2018 6:08 am

EvanManManMan wrote:
BasicFourLife wrote:
EvanManManMan wrote:Because the standards being run had setups created months ago when tracker was not deemed standard

Why was Tracker not deemed Standard?

You're an idiot

Yes
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Re: Why is Tracker not being used?

Postby ICECLIMBERS » Fri Jul 06, 2018 11:56 am

Tracker is a bad role.

It is most commonly used as a weak investigative role, particularly in vanilla setups and role madness. In vanilla setups (example: Matrix6) chances are it will not track somebody who visits. In role madness it will almost always trace a visit, but this doesn't mean as much. Our setups have a good number of power roles, but also a good number of citizens. It's also unlikely that scum will claim to visit the person that they actually visit, so you can softconfirm some visits and catch lying scum.

Just because a role can be used does not mean that it should be used.
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Re: Why is Tracker not being used?

Postby chitownmvp01 » Fri Jul 06, 2018 2:14 pm

ICECLIMBERS wrote:Tracker is a bad role.

It is most commonly used as a weak investigative role, particularly in vanilla setups and role madness. In vanilla setups (example: Matrix6) chances are it will not track somebody who visits. In role madness it will almost always trace a visit, but this doesn't mean as much. Our setups have a good number of power roles, but also a good number of citizens. It's also unlikely that scum will claim to visit the person that they actually visit, so you can softconfirm some visits and catch lying scum.

Just because a role can be used does not mean that it should be used.


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Re: Why is Tracker not being used?

Postby ICECLIMBERS » Fri Jul 06, 2018 2:31 pm

I should clarify that “bad” isn’t a good word to describe it. I think that it’s strong compared to, say, Investigator and other roles and that hosts should consider that when making a setup. I even included Tracker as a possible role in the last game I hosted (which was a matrix).
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Re: Why is Tracker not being used?

Postby EvanManManMan » Fri Jul 06, 2018 2:46 pm

chitownmvp01 wrote:
ICECLIMBERS wrote:Tracker is a bad role.

It is most commonly used as a weak investigative role, particularly in vanilla setups and role madness. In vanilla setups (example: Matrix6) chances are it will not track somebody who visits. In role madness it will almost always trace a visit, but this doesn't mean as much. Our setups have a good number of power roles, but also a good number of citizens. It's also unlikely that scum will claim to visit the person that they actually visit, so you can softconfirm some visits and catch lying scum.

Just because a role can be used does not mean that it should be used.


Thank you. I was just about to make a post saying exactly this.

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Re: Why is Tracker not being used?

Postby Schultz128 » Fri Jul 06, 2018 5:39 pm

EvanManManMan wrote:
chitownmvp01 wrote:
ICECLIMBERS wrote:Tracker is a bad role.

It is most commonly used as a weak investigative role, particularly in vanilla setups and role madness. In vanilla setups (example: Matrix6) chances are it will not track somebody who visits. In role madness it will almost always trace a visit, but this doesn't mean as much. Our setups have a good number of power roles, but also a good number of citizens. It's also unlikely that scum will claim to visit the person that they actually visit, so you can softconfirm some visits and catch lying scum.

Just because a role can be used does not mean that it should be used.


Thank you. I was just about to make a post saying exactly this.

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Re: Why is Tracker not being used?

Postby chitownmvp01 » Sat Jul 07, 2018 1:00 am

Schultz128 wrote:
EvanManManMan wrote:
chitownmvp01 wrote:
ICECLIMBERS wrote:Tracker is a bad role.

It is most commonly used as a weak investigative role, particularly in vanilla setups and role madness. In vanilla setups (example: Matrix6) chances are it will not track somebody who visits. In role madness it will almost always trace a visit, but this doesn't mean as much. Our setups have a good number of power roles, but also a good number of citizens. It's also unlikely that scum will claim to visit the person that they actually visit, so you can softconfirm some visits and catch lying scum.

Just because a role can be used does not mean that it should be used.


Thank you. I was just about to make a post saying exactly this.

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Re: Why is Tracker not being used?

Postby Varanus » Sat Jul 07, 2018 5:41 am

EvanManManMan wrote:
BasicFourLife wrote:
EvanManManMan wrote:Because the standards being run had setups created months ago when tracker was not deemed standard

Why was Tracker not deemed Standard?

You're an idiot

This is the actual reason btw
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Re: Why is Tracker not being used?

Postby TrueGent » Sat Jul 07, 2018 6:41 am

Because its busted in any setup that has more than half the scumteam required to move every night
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