Battlebots Mafia [Sign-Ups]

I have no idea what I'm doing but I have a few weeks to mess around before school gets hectic again... so might as well.

The theme here is Battlebots, objectively the best sports show ever made. If you don't know what I'm talking about, watch the following videos (you won't regret it):

Each player will receive a character based on an existing Battlebot, and their role will be based off of it. All Battlebots chosen will be reasonably well-known.

There will be a themesplit. Each faction will have their own themesplit.

This is a multiball setup. There are two mafia factions. One will kill on odd nights, and the other will kill on even nights.

To balance this out, town will have some stronger power roles than normal.

The game will end when:

-1 faction reaches parity with town, and the other faction is eliminated (faction win)

-2 factions reach parity with each other, and town is eliminated (draw between factions)

-2 factions are eliminated, and town is still alive (town win)

-Everyone kills each other (everyone loses)

Mafia will have daytalk throughout the game.

If you have a question about a setup, I can answer it hypothetically.

Don't C/P PM's, don't communicate out-of-thread, don't talk after you're dead, don't violate site rules. Don't do anything scummy that's not on this list or a modkill will probably result.

Other than that, have fun. This is my first game I'm modding, so I hope it will go well for everyone.

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erq

/out

Back to uni so gonna be busy

Multiball? Oh no.....

Eh sure whatever I'll go /in

/in, watched a ton of Battlebots back in the day, though I’d be hard-pressed to remember all the names.

Ik ur ass didn't forget about Tombstone tho

No one will forget about Tombstone.

ya know, there was a bot named Stinger that I used to cheer for. I don't think that team still competes.

List :D

I ran a bunch of simulations and the odds should be about 40-30-30 (for town-scum-scum)... although the difference between theory and practice is that in theory there is no difference.

Tombstone’s great, but more modern Battlebots. Minion, Son of Whyachi, El Toro, Nightmare and Backlash were my jam back when the series started.

I need to focus on other things and it's gonna be so easy to tell which pairs are scum for the nerds or alternatively impossible.

How long are your day and night periods? I don't wanna have be constantly doing this.

I am IN.

Probably 72 hr DP and 24 hr NP due to the greater complexity of scumhunting.

Son of Whyachi... now that's a blast from the past.

/in

ok.

If battlebots have pairings isn't this too easy for Town?

Can you clarify what you mean by that?

If battlebots have pairings of some kind, the only way Town can be split is Town are either teams of 3 or solo while scum are pairs.

Unless scum have deep knowledge of all the geeky lore of battlebots they either can't fakeclaim anything significant or can fakeclaim and get cc'd hard. Both will be forced to fakeclaim because if either doesn't, the partner will expose the other in their pairing.

The witch doctor has a fun style.

There are no pairings or anything. It's just 2 separate mafia teams, and a large townblock. Scum will be given safeclaims. The themesplit won't be anything blatantly obvious.

GP does stuff like this. He's in

Sorry Austin meant to tag you in the post above

Ok fine I sign up.

Also, I let others know, if you are the other pair than us and want to work together, I strongly prefer that you out first or we will assume you are going for a solo win and betraying us.

Also, I may out as scum, as Town, to bait mafia. Don't read too hard into what I do if I claim scum during DPs past DP1. If I analyse outing to bait a team to out, as optimal, I will.

Yeah, I was watching back in 2000 when S1 was airing. Loved all the crazy designs.