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Meteor exploit?

almost 7 years

https://epicmafia.com/game/6388012/review

We lynched Lawyer, Hooker kept no-killing and for some reason, meteor was still on town. Normally I wouldn't care, but Gigglypuff claimed vested long time ago, clearing himself because of that glitch. Possible exploit abuse? I reread the game and nobody was vested, nor hit, so nobody GT or trolled...

Does anyone know what is going on?

almost 7 years

AdrenalineMime says

so meteor goes on the team to "first to nk/nl in the game" not "first to nk/nl in a streak of 6 nk/nls"?


nvm that doesn't explain https://epicmafia.com/game/6388012
almost 7 years
Site owner/editors need to write somewhere about the meteor mechanic, how it works, and various interactions. Considering you can get an automatic GT violation for not understanding it. Simply put it NEEDs to be written somewhere that's easily accessible.

It's the only mechanic on this site that's not explained anywhere on the site past buried forum posts, and shouldn't be an auto violation unless someone can quickly search to site to understand what it does.
almost 7 years
so meteor goes on the team to "first to nk/nl in the game" not "first to nk/nl in a streak of 6 nk/nls"?
almost 7 years
Did you even read what I said? I didn't know that daystart flips the meteor behavior. It's not my fault that this site's owner is incapable of properly implementing this feature...
almost 7 years
"Doesn't know the game mechanics throws accusations about someone exploiting said mechanics"
almost 7 years
Oh thanks, I didn't know that. Why isn't this information provided on the rules page or something similar?!
almost 7 years
Likewise. You simply can't give a GT vio to a player if they don't understand a mechanic that isn't properly explained. Especially since game throwing violations requires clear intent, as stated in the rules of the site.
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If anything it's the coding. Since each game automatically starts at night(despite daystart) to assign roles maf are automatically on nk n1.

Since this is clearly something that will never be changed I do think a guide for how meteor works need to be made/more public. Meteor happens so vaguely that a player could go 100's of games and never see it since most people don't force it.

Any arguments to just ask about meteor or to search it up, how is a new player going to even do this if they don't even know it exists. I speak from experience when I say you could go 100's of games w/o encountering meteor. I got a gt vio a year ago because I didn't know the mechanics of it.
almost 7 years
How are people suppose to know that day start flips meteor if it's not written anywhere that's easily accessible?
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day start set up
almost 7 years
We (town) took the last action, mafia was forced to kill...
almost 7 years
What? It's just a knowledge about mechanics, not glitch abuse.
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https://epicmafia.com/game/6384696/review

Happened here too, town forced nl and then meteor was on maf.

The only problem from this is the side the meteor is on ending up forcing a draw because they don't take action.