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Well, this was one heck of a game - and it had quite a bit. I'll go through the setup, theme, night actions, and then my personal analysis.
Setup:
Mafia Faction 1:
FAKECLAIMS: Tantrum
FAKECLAIMS: Jailkeeper, Miller
ijb1 - You are Hydra! You are considered the best flipper bot in Battlebots, and are capable of launching opposing bots up to 15 feet in the air. You carefully choose your opportunities before you strike. Because of this, you are the Odd-Night Stalker. You may target one player per odd night to learn their role, but not alignment, flavor, or modifiers. You may also perform a factional kill on even nights ONLY on the player that you personally stalked the previous night. You win with your mafia faction.
Once the other mafia faction is eliminated:
You may stalk on any night. You may perform the factional kill on any night on any player. However, you cannot do both on the same night.
Wylted - You are Fusion! You have two powerful weapons and an unfortunate tendency to catch on fire after big hits. You’re also popular for your entertaining fights. As such, you are the 1-shot Godfather JOAT. You will investigate as innocent to cops. You may use one of the following abilities once per game:
-Ninja (don’t show up on investigative reports)
-Strongman (can’t be protected against)
-Roleblocker (target can’t perform night actions)
On odd nights, you may visit a player. You may perform a factional kill on even nights ONLY on the player that you personally visited the previous night.
Once the other mafia faction is eliminated:
You may perform the factional kill on any night on any player.
Mafia Faction 2:
FAKECLAIMS: HUGE
FAKECLAIMS: Motivator, Hider
whiteflame - You are Whiplash! You are known for being one of the greatest control bots, being able to ram, and generally bully opposing bots to the point where they can barely land a hit on you. Once you’ve taken disabled the opposing bot, you flip them over to knock them out. You are an Even-Night Roleblocker. You may target one player per non-killing night to block active actions (but not factional kills). You may also perform a factional kill ONLY on the player that you personally roleblocked the previous night. You win with your mafia faction.
Once the other mafia faction is eliminated: You may roleblock on any night. You may perform the factional kill on any night on any player. However, you cannot do both on the same night.
JoeBob - You are Minotaur! You are small, durable, and hit like a truck. Because of your compact design, you will keep on fighting right up until a KO, regardless of how much damage you’ve taken. Because of this, you are the Ascetic. You are immune to all non-lethal night actions. On even nights, you may visit a player. You may perform a factional kill on odd nights ONLY on the player that you personally visited the previous night.
Once the other mafia faction is eliminated:
You may perform the factional kill on any night on any player.
Town:
Greyparrot – You are Black Dragon! You’re the definition of mid offense, godly defense. On several occasions, you have survived to the end of the match on fire and upside down. However, you usually lose the judge’s decision afterwards. Because of this, you are the Bleeder. If you are targeted during the night, you will die at the end of the next DP. You will not be informed that you are bleeding. You win with the town.
Lunatic – You are Witch Doctor! Your ability is the same as your name – you are a Doctor! You are the Nonconsecutive Doctor. Each night, you can target a player, including yourself. This player will be protected from kills during the night. You may not protect the same player twice in a row. You win with the town.
Vader/Barney – You are Chomp! You are known for a stunning upset victory over the undisputed GOAT of Battlebots, Bite Force. This victory was achieved with an ingenious LIDAR system that allowed you to track the opposing bot’s movement and fire your hammer at them accordingly. Thus, you are the Tracker. Each night, you may choose to track a player, finding out who they visited for the night. You win with the town.
RationalMadman - You are Shatter! You are (in)famous for an incident in which you accused another team of modifying their bot after the pre-match weight check, an accusation that was eventually found to be true. Because of this investigation, you are the Cop. Each night, you may investigate another player, and will receive a “guilty” or “innocent” result. You win with the town.
7000series – You are speed – I mean, Hypershock! You are one of the fastest bots in Battlebots, and no one is a match for your maneuverability. Unfortunately, you’re too fast even for your driver, and tend to slam into the wall half the time. Because of this, you are the Even-night Commuter. On even nights, you may choose to be immune to any and all night actions. You win with the town.
Best.Korea - You are Duck! You’re my favorite bot, despite the fact you’re basically a 250-pound brick on wheels. Your strategy is to ram into the other bot until it breaks, letting nothing, not even the laws of physics, get in your way. And because of how durable you are, this works a surprising amount of the time. You are the 1-shot Bulletproof Vigilante. During any NP, you may message me to become a bulletproof vigilante the next NP ONLY. You will be immune to night kills, and can choose one player of your choice to kill. You win with the town.
Mechanics:
-Each faction gets a single bulletproof which will remain until it is used.
-Factional kills behave as mentioned in the role - not like usual mafia.
Theme:
All three factions had a themesplit, but I intentionally made the town one less obvious.
-For Mafia Faction 1, the themesplit was "bots from teams with multiple bots." This one's pretty self-explanatory.
-For Mafia Faction 2, the themesplit was "bots with non-traditional spinning weapons." Whiplash has a blade combined with a lifter, Minotaur has a wide drum, and HUGE has a blade literally as big as its wheels.
-For Town, the themesplit was "bots with a large fanbase."
Night actions:
NP1:
-ijb1 stalks Joebob
-Wylted visits whiteflame
-Joebob NKs Greyparrot (stopped by factional bulletproof)
-Lunatic forfeits action
-Vader tracks Lunatic (randomized)
-RationalMadman cops whiteflame
-Best.Korea activates vig
NP2:
-ijb1 NKs Joebob (stopped by factional bulletproof)
-Joebob visits Lunatic
-RationalMadman cops ijb1
-Wylted roleblocks RationalMadman
-Lunatic protects RationalMadman
-Barney tracks Best.Korea
-Best.Korea vigs Wylted (stopped by factional bulletproof)
NP3:
-ijb1 stalks RationalMadman
-RationalMadman cops Barney
-Barney tracks ijb1
-Lunatic protects Barney
-Joebob NKs Lunatic
NP4:
-RationalMadman cops Joebob
-Barney tracks Best.Korea
-Joebob NKs Barney
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Welcome to Battlebots Mafia! This will be themed around Battlebots, a popular reality TV show which will get us in trouble with our future AI overlords. Have fun!
Flips:
Lynched DP1:
7000series – You are speed – I mean, Hypershock. You are one of the fastest bots in Battlebots, and no one is a match for your maneuverability. Unfortunately, you’re too fast even for your driver, and tend to slam into the wall half the time. Because of this, you are the Even-Night Commuter. On even nights, you may choose to be immune to any and all night actions. You win with the town.
Died NP1:
(no one)
Lynched DP2:
whiteflame - You are Whiplash! You are known for being one of the greatest control bots, being able to ram, and generally bully opposing bots to the point where they can barely land a hit on you. Once you’ve taken disabled the opposing bot, you flip them over to knock them out. You are a Roleblocker. You may target one player per non-killing night to block active actions (but not factional kills). You may also perform a factional kill ONLY on the player that you personally roleblocked the previous night. You win with your mafia faction.
Died NP2:
(no one)
Lynched DP3:
Wylted - You are Fusion! You have two powerful weapons and an unfortunate tendency to catch on fire after big hits. You’re also popular for your entertaining fights. As such, you are the Godfather 1-shot JOAT. You will investigate as innocent to cops. Additionally, you may use one of the following abilities once per game: Ninja, Strongman, Roleblocker. On non-killing nights, you may visit a player. You may perform a factional kill ONLY on the player that you personally visited the previous night. You win with your mafia faction.
Died NP3:
Lunatic: You are Witch Doctor! Your ability is the same as your name – you are the (Nonconsecutive) Doctor. Each night, you can target a player, including yourself. This player will be protected from kills during the night. You may not protect the same player twice in a row. You win with the town.
Lynched DP4:
ijb1: You are Hydra! You are considered the best flipper bot in Battlebots, and are capable of launching opposing bots up to 15 feet in the air. You carefully choose your opportunities before you strike. Because of this, you are the Stalker. You may target one player per non-killing night to learn their role, but not alignment, flavor, or modifiers. You may also perform a factional kill ONLY on the player that you personally stalked the previous night. You win with your mafia faction.
Died NP4:
Vader/Barney – You are Chomp! You are known for a stunning upset victory over the undisputed GOAT of Battlebots, Bite Force. This victory was achieved with an ingenious LIDAR system that allowed you to track the opposing bot’s movement and fire your hammer at them accordingly. Thus, you are the Tracker. Each night, you may choose to track a player, finding out who they visited for the night. You win with the town.
Mechanics Information:
Everything from the first DP still applies.
Rules:
- Don’t CP from PM’s or pretend to do so.
- Cease posting when you are dead.
- Do not contact other players outside of the thread or approved chats.
- Respect the site rules, and other players.
- Do not edit or delete posts.
- Don’t do anything else that gives you an unfair advantage, even if it’s not explicitly stated in the rules. It won’t make you clever, but it will get you modkilled.
Living Players:
1. Best.Korea
2. Greyparrot
3. RationalMadman
4. Joebob
Deadline:
This DP ends 72 hours from the first player post in this thread.
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Welcome to Battlebots Mafia! This will be themed around Battlebots, a popular reality TV show which will get us in trouble with our future AI overlords. Have fun!
Flips:
Lynched DP1:
7000series – You are speed – I mean, Hypershock. You are one of the fastest bots in Battlebots, and no one is a match for your maneuverability. Unfortunately, you’re too fast even for your driver, and tend to slam into the wall half the time. Because of this, you are the Even-Night Commuter. On even nights, you may choose to be immune to any and all night actions. You win with the town.
Died NP1:
(no one)
Lynched DP2:
whiteflame - You are Whiplash! You are known for being one of the greatest control bots, being able to ram, and generally bully opposing bots to the point where they can barely land a hit on you. Once you’ve taken disabled the opposing bot, you flip them over to knock them out. You are a Roleblocker. You may target one player per non-killing night to block active actions (but not factional kills). You may also perform a factional kill ONLY on the player that you personally roleblocked the previous night. You win with your mafia faction.
Died NP2:
(no one)
Lynched DP3:
Wylted - You are Fusion! You have two powerful weapons and an unfortunate tendency to catch on fire after big hits. You’re also popular for your entertaining fights. As such, you are the Godfather 1-shot JOAT. You will investigate as innocent to cops. Additionally, you may use one of the following abilities once per game: Ninja, Strongman, Roleblocker. On non-killing nights, you may visit a player. You may perform a factional kill ONLY on the player that you personally visited the previous night. You win with your mafia faction.
Died NP3:
Lunatic: You are Witch Doctor! Your ability is the same as your name – you are the (Nonconsecutive) Doctor. Each night, you can target a player, including yourself. This player will be protected from kills during the night. You may not protect the same player twice in a row. You win with the town.
Mechanics Information:
Everything from the first DP still applies.
Rules:
- Don’t CP from PM’s or pretend to do so.
- Cease posting when you are dead.
- Do not contact other players outside of the thread or approved chats.
- Respect the site rules, and other players.
- Do not edit or delete posts.
- Don’t do anything else that gives you an unfair advantage, even if it’s not explicitly stated in the rules. It won’t make you clever, but it will get you modkilled.
Living Players:
1. Best.Korea
2. Greyparrot
3. RationalMadman
4. Joebob
5. ijb1
6. Barney
Deadline:
This DP ends 72 hours from the first player post in this thread.
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Welcome to Battlebots Mafia! This will be themed around Battlebots, a popular reality TV show which will get us in trouble with our future AI overlords. Have fun!
Flips:
Lynched DP1:
7000series – You are speed – I mean, Hypershock. You are one of the fastest bots in Battlebots, and no one is a match for your maneuverability. Unfortunately, you’re too fast even for your driver, and tend to slam into the wall half the time. Because of this, you are the Even-Night Commuter. On even nights, you may choose to be immune to any and all night actions.
Died NP1:
(no one)
Lynched DP2:
whiteflame - You are Whiplash! You are known for being one of the greatest control bots, being able to ram, and generally bully opposing bots to the point where they can barely land a hit on you. Once you’ve taken disabled the opposing bot, you flip them over to knock them out. You are a Roleblocker. You may target one player per non-killing night to block active actions (but not factional kills). You may also perform a factional kill ONLY on the player that you personally roleblocked the previous night. You win with your mafia faction.
Died NP2:
(no one)
Mechanics Information:
Everything from the first DP still applies.
Rules:
- Don’t CP from PM’s or pretend to do so.
- Cease posting when you are dead.
- Do not contact other players outside of the thread or approved chats.
- Respect the site rules, and other players.
- Do not edit or delete posts.
- Don’t do anything else that gives you an unfair advantage, even if it’s not explicitly stated in the rules. It won’t make you clever, but it will get you modkilled.
Living Players:
1. Best.Korea
2. Greyparrot
3. Wylted
4. RationalMadman
5. Joebob
6. ijb1
7. Lunatic
8. Barney
Deadline:
This DP ends 72 hours from the first player post in this thread.
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Welcome to Battlebots Mafia! This will be themed around Battlebots, a popular reality TV show which will get us in trouble with our future AI overlords. Have fun!
Flips:
Lynched DP1:
7000series – You are speed – I mean, Hypershock. You are one of the fastest bots in Battlebots, and no one is a match for your maneuverability. Unfortunately, you’re too fast even for your driver, and tend to slam into the wall half the time. Because of this, you are the Even-Night Commuter. On even nights, you may choose to be immune to any and all night actions.
Died NP1:
(no one)
Questions?:
-If you have a question pertaining to how a role or mechanic works, I will answer it hypothetically in the thread or in PMs. For example:
“If a Hated Miller were in the game, would the Hated go away at MYLO?”
“Hypothetically, if this role was in the game, Hated would not go away at MYLO.”
I reserve the right to not answer questions that I believe are trying to get an unfair insight into the setup beyond what was intended.
Mechanics Information:
-Everything from the first DP still applies, except the DP period. This DP, and future ones, will last 72 hours at maximum, with extensions given on a case-to-case basis.
Rules:
- Don’t CP from PM’s or pretend to do so.
- Cease posting when you are dead.
- Do not contact other players outside of the thread or approved chats.
- Respect the site rules, and other players.
- Do not edit or delete posts.
- Don’t do anything else that gives you an unfair advantage, even if it’s not explicitly stated in the rules. It won’t make you clever, but it will get you modkilled.
Living Players:
1. whiteflame
2. Best.Korea
3. Greyparrot
4. Wylted
5. RationalMadman
6 Joebob
7. ijb1
8. Lunatic
9. Vader
Deadline:
This DP ends 72 hours from the first player post in this thread.
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Welcome to Battlebots Mafia! This will be themed around Battlebots, a popular reality TV show which will get us in trouble with our future AI overlords. Have fun!
Suggested resources:
R/battlebots subreddit
Battlebots fights on Youtube
Battlebots fandom wiki
Mechanics Information:
-The first DP will be 48 hours long. Subsequent DPs will be 72 hours long. I will grant extensions as I see fit.
-All NP’s will be 24 hours long. There will be no extensions unless you inform me in advance that you will be gone.
-Majority voting will be in effect (defined as being more than 50% of living players.) If there is no majority reached by the deadline AND there are enough non-voting players to potentially reach a majority, I will use plurality voting to resolve. Ties will be broken by the first player to be voted.
-There are two mafia factions, each of which are attempting to be the last ones standing. They can and will kill each other.
-One faction gets to kill on the odd nights, and the other on the even nights. If one faction is entirely eliminated, the other faction will receive their factional kill for subsequent nights.
-Faction 1, Faction 2, and the town have a single x1 factional bulletproof. (This is the balance change I made for 10 players instead of 11 or 12). Any protective roles will take priority over the factional bulletproof being used. For example, if Faction 1 targets town on NP1, town will lose its factional bulletproof, and be vulnerable to Faction 2.
-Alignment flips will be posted after hammer, role flips will be posted the next DP. Role flips will not specify which mafia faction the player was a part of.
-This is role madness.
-Scum has been given fakeclaims.
-I have semi-randomized the wording of the PM's.
Endgame conditions:
-The game will end when one of the following conditions are met:
-One faction has reached parity or greater with the town, and the other faction is eliminated
-All factions have been eliminated and there is at least one townie left
Rules:
- Don’t CP from PM’s or pretend to do so.
- Cease posting when you are dead.
- Do not contact other players outside of the thread or approved chats.
- Respect the site rules, and other players.
- Don’t do anything else that gives you an unfair advantage, even if it’s not explicitly stated in the rules. It won’t make you clever, but it will get you modkilled.
Living Players:
1. whiteflame
2. 7000series
3. Best.Korea
4. Greyparrot
5. Wylted
6. RationalMadman
7. Joebob
8. ijb1
9. Lunatic
10. Vader
This DP will end 48 hours from this post.
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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.
Theme
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.
Setup
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.
Rules and Modding
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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I joined this website in late 2022, back in the days when I still had copious amounts of free time. Of course, I wasn't very good - in fact, looking back at my early debates, the structure of my arguments was horrific. But I had fun, and that was what mattered.
I left for a few reasons. My final debate vs. blamonkey showed me how outmatched I was in many respects against a truly competent debater. Then I kinda got distracted with preparing for my 1st year of high school and trying to achieve my goal of becoming a National Master in chess.
So why did I come back? Well, my school has a debate club, so I joined just for fun, and entered my 1st serious debate tournament (e.g. with schools competing from multiple states). This tournament really made me realize how much DART helped my debating skills. While my fellow novices were stealing cards and cases from the more experienced debaters (and proceeded to get rolled because they didn't know anything about their own case), I researched and put together a case, blocks, and frontlines with my partner.
We ended up going 5-0 in prelims, and broke all the way into the finals before losing a split decision to a team with over 10 tournaments under their belt. I'm absolutely sure this wouldn't have been possible without everything I learned when debating at DART. This is far from a perfect website, but I have a lot to thank it for.
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The Tournament ended with blamonkey winning/losing against me which I am now happy/sad about as it means that I can/cannot bring this up without sounding narcissistic. (note to self: edit later) My problem does not stem from the lack of glory and announcement surrounding the tournament ending, it stems from a complete lack of Wylted following through on his singular campaign promise: getting DART popular AF.
He is just seasonally fortunate, the months that lead into the Northern Hemisphere's Summer and Spring type months are linked to more activity on debate forums. I don't even fully understand why what with exams and all but this has been consistent and I've 'been around' sites like this for a while.
The fact is that perhaps the only person who got people to join more to DART was me with my convincing half my school’s debate club to join, it may have garnered some attention (this is something I readily let myself know I was doing, I even told myself, so don't accuse me of stalking me).
I see badger trying, Wylted flaking, Pie 100% flaking and around 40% of Wylted voters (or more actually) are basically dead af to the website whereas those that voted RM are almost all active here.
The thing is I don't care about that ^, I was unwilling to vote Wylted until things happened later on making me respect his character again (from what I thought about him vs his promise to thinking it about him again).
There has not even been any feedback from Wylted during the Best.Korea warnings making him leave the site. We have seen nothing at all where Wylted defends or even makes a post acting as the balancing power to the moderators.
There has not even been any feedback from Wylted during the Best.Korea warnings making him leave the site. We have seen nothing at all where Wylted defends or even makes a post acting as the balancing power to the moderators.
It makes you wonder if he even understands his role. It doesn't matter if he agrees with the bans, he should be publicly defending and making speeches about both sides, primarily focused on being a defendant to the user.
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Disclaimer: this is a parody of last year’s thread: What precisely has Airmax done during his Presidency here towards his campaign promises?
However, I decided to post this to generate some legitimate discussion over two things:
1. Wylted’s extended inactivity from this site (over 20 days now)
2. His lack of following through on campaign promises - he promised to promote DART on social media, create content on other sites, change election standards, create a DART university, etc. His entire platform was based on getting DART popular and shaking things up. None of this has happened.
Thoughts? Although this thread is a joke, I feel like we might be heading towards another year of an inactive president...
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It can't get worse than it currently is - why not give RM a try?
(I'm just creating this thread because if Wylted can make three threads, then RM, Sir.Lancelot, and I should be able to make a combined three).
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