by watchme1 » Mon Aug 24, 2020 10:34 pm
This mod rant began around near end of day 4 cause I feel like I needed to get it out of my chest. It will build on from here as game progresses or something.
This SFM game is the first ever FM game I’ve hosted and boy it was a learning experience. I got to understand how hard hosts actually have when it came to moderating things like actions, vote counts, handling rolecards etc. One small mistake and the whole thing would have to be canned and re-rolled potentially. Props to Var for realising that Proto was a player who was already banned and thank god it was handled early on.
Role card creation was probably done not the greatest since it was my first time around. What I did was rand player numbers into the 11-3-1 format that I had planned before hand and whoever was in said slot at signups would get said slot/alignment. With that in mind, the first people to send said waifus were more likely to have their role cards created first with that in mind, I probably overloaded a few players and underloaded some others in terms of abilities. I basically somewhat came into this partially blind since I generally have no creativity with regards to role creation. The only ‘unique’ like role was Varanus’ one which is basically an ability cop/investigator that works only for closed setups. Every other role is just some alternative iteration that everyone’s seen in other game-modes so apologies to people who thought that their rolecard wasn’t creative enough (I’m lowkey insecure about this hahaha).
Activity at the start was above expectations but dwindled very quickly during d3/d4 where there were barely 4 pages over the span of a 24 hour period. I also got kind of lazy with regards to prods as well so there’s something to check there as well. I guess the problems with uPicks as well is that endgame can be solved via mechanics so no one really has any motivation to really try to solve via reads. Also I’m usually one to not like be strict or rude or any of that, but I have to say it, if you’re not going to produce any content what so ever, then FM isn’t the game for you.
Balance-wise I felt after creation it was slightly town-sided due to how much information town could fetch potentially on the first night and potentially poe half the town - Io’s cop check, Franziska’s killing check, cornelia’s +ve/-ve check, yellow’s tracker/lo check. But I guess when you have an auto-commuting killer as well as a ninja NE, then I guess having 3 TI’s isn’t that bad. Maybe potentially made indifferent waifus a traitor instead of your stock standard boring neutral evil to bring the numbers up for scum thus in the event the corrupt waifus get wiped early one, the last indifferent waifu could potentially carry. Possibilities were endless with this one. In the end the only changes after my initial pitch of rolecards were to make corona infect majority rather than all players, kaguya only got a 1-shot strongman over 2, yellow had a spy bug instead of FV ability which would’ve made yellow the strongest role by far. I don’t know where I’m going with this one lol.
I’m also unsure about this one with regards to fake-claims, whether or not I should’ve made fake-claim rolecards so to speak so scum-team have a better chance of faking said abilities etc. Idk I just got really lazy perhaps.
On a different note, I hope everyone enjoyed this edition of Waifu uPick, personally overall I had a lot of fun with regards to role creation, learning people’s tastes, learning people’s playstyles from an overseer perspective. I will probably maybe host another waifu uPick in the future should I be willing and up for the job for it and maybe if Gent wants to deal with the headaches I may or may not have thrown at him uwu. So in the event I do host another waifu uPick, I’ll see you all in Waifu uPick - Waifus strike back! Or smth idk.
Thank you to all who played. Thank you Gent for dealing with my noob-like pestering. Thank you for being patient with me when I was busy and couldn't start day/night on time.
Also Shiro is best waifu, don't say otherwise
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watchme1 on Mon Aug 24, 2020 10:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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