I wager it was a typo and the basement dweller is effected by the switcher of both factions ( not just the mafia one)
Do switches reset to ON after the phase they were turned off in ( if not influenced by another 'switcher"?)
Sinjin, last time there were switches, each scum had a specific power to switch. One was cop switch, one was blocker switch, one was doc switcher. And I think it was serial killer could switch them all, but not individualy. But snice none of this specificity is mentioned in this game, it makes me think that there is a 3rd party for each class of power (block, protect, investigation, watch/track).
I don’t think it’s a typo. Both the basement guy and mafia guy work during the night. The wolf guy is during the day.
In Mahaloth’s HOH2 game the switches, the powers involved, and who controlled these switches were all spelled out at the start of the game. Once one role switch controller was dead, the other player had complete control of the switch. The switches defaulted back to “on” during that game every cycle.
But in this game the power to switch is given to an individual Mafia, Wolf, and Town player. Both Mafia and Wolf can switch off and Town can switch on.
Is it? DID I completely miss that? Is that stated in the wolfia pm’s? I’ll check again.
Oh, no, I misread what you said. No. IN this game only one of each can throw ALL the switches. Not each power switch individually.
Btw, sorry for the all caps first words of sentences. My phone likes to do that on its own. I so rarely mean to do that.
Doesn’t that change the balance of power?
I’m here and stuff, reveling in the freedom of not playing for so long that I can’t remember shit about anything or anyone.
I start almost every game that way— intended or no
Mods, hats off for the effort and color.
I will never buy lucky charms.
@Meeko, I was joking about the google doc with 14 pages of PMs. Now I have my own, personal, PM.
Unless there’s a way to confirm their “friendly” wincon or alignment, often paranoia about win stealing 3rd parties can distract from hunting scum.
@Pleo, players aren’t forced to read their role PM either…
@Plumpudding, apart from 3rd party, why would you need to quote or paraphrase a role PM? Or do you mean PMs in general?
@Texcat, is Patsy always a she, like a car?
@Nanook, was it SpecialEd?
Special Ed did that, in a game I cannot now recall over on Idle’s old boards.
He quoted a major speech by a US politician, each time removing a letter from the previous quote.
I didn’t blame him, but I’m glad I never saw it happen a second time.
See the initial rules. You have no posting restrictions. Post anything you want.
Why are you stank eyeing him? Because of something he did in another game? MHaye, wanna give your routine announcement about holding grudges?
I promise I’m not ignoring you on this it’s just that… Hey look at that puppy! Look everyone it’s a cute baby puppy! Who wants to pet it?
I’m picturing Winnie, from Hotel Transylvania.
I, too, have no idea what the deal is with the switches. Maybe they turn powers off, maybe they do something else to the game state. I presume that they have something to do with one or more third parties, because those are the only other major part of the game we don’t know about.
That said, though, my general philosophy on things I can’t know about is to not worry about them. It is likely that at some point in the game, we’ll end up with more information about the switches; at that time, we should start thinking about them. At this point, though, anything we try to deduce about them is at least as likely to be wrong as right, and anything we try to do about them is as likely to hurt us as to help us. So we ignore them, for now, until and unless we have some reason not to.
The same also goes for hostile third parties, incidentally. As of right now, we’re not even certain that we have any (though given previous games by these moderators, I think it likely). We don’t know what will hinder or advance their win conditions, and so if we try to avoid doing anything that will help them, we’ll end up paralyzed. The smart response is to just play the game as normal, and do our best to deal with the threats we do know of and understand (the two Scum factions).
Ooh, a puppy! I wanna pet the puppy!
Here’s a cat video too. Why don’t you all bookmark it. The next time you have a switch question go watch this instead, you’ll feel better. Err. I mean…did I say something about switches? Ignore that. WATCH THE VIDEO! ITS SOOOO CUTE!!!
