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Giga's Weekly Setup Feature

over 5 years

Hello everyone,

People have complained since the beginning of time that the same old boring setups are made competitive every few rounds. Recently, I discovered setups need to have 200 ranked plays before they can be made competitive, or get "comped" for a competitive round in this lobby--unless approved otherwise by the Round Moderator.

It may be difficult to get 200 ranked plays in a setup you want to get considered for competitive play. Not only that, but it also has to follow all of the other guidelines for competitive setups (see: https://epicmafia.com/topic/91250 for these).

I want to create a weekly setup feature where those of us who are interested in getting new setups into competitive play a setup for a week and try getting as many plays on it as we can. Here's how it would work:

Before every Sunday, people post setups that they would like to try out--one setup per post. We will vote on the setups by plussing each post (please DO NOT NEG SETUP POSTS--votes lock each Sunday--only vote on one account please, this is for the good of competitions and we therefore want our voting to be honest), and whichever setup gets the highest number of votes will be played that week. That setup will be played as much as possible in red hearts for it to achieve at least the minimum 200 plays it needs until the end of the following Saturday. Then, we repeat the process with new setups. In the event of a tie, we will do one setup one week and the next setup the next week, and skip voting for one week.

This week will be for interested users to sign up, by voting in this doodle:

As an added incentive, I want to see if I can get any players to commit to comp 1 of any of the successful setups that we gain through this weekly feature of mine if they win a round. I will put my name on this list. I will also make a video on my YouTube channel talking about the setup that wins the vote each week!

Round Winners Who Will Comp a New Successful Setup (if they win a Competitive Round):

  • Giga13
  • alexandra
  • Songin

List of successful setups which we have played and are made competitive worthy:

  • None yet!

List of setups featured through this thread:

If you're busy, no worries! You can still vote yes in the poll if you're interested, because all you really have to do is just play the weekly featured setup from this thread whenever you're available and help vote on which setup you want to see featured for that week.

You may go ahead and start posting setups below! One setup per post please. Voting closes Saturday June 23rd @11:59PM EST. NO NEGGING SETUP POSTS, Plussing or leaving the post alone only

Do you want to participate in this to help get more new setups into competitive?
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Yes
2
Yes/No, but... (post below)
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No
over 5 years

DiSoRiEnTeD says

https://epicmafia.com/setup/1513003

This seems pretty fun actually


https://epicmafia.com/setup/1514611 is your fixed version, let's try featuring it for this week!

It's an FJ alternate but maybe people will like it more since innos are clear always.
over 5 years
All the more reason for someone to complain : )
over 5 years
20 votes per mod.... What bs is this
over 5 years
Also, DiSoRiEnTeD, i upvoted that setup for you. (Mod upvotes are 20)
over 5 years
“Are you the bad man?” Is now featured! Have fun!
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the setup i linked was comped once
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Since a bunch of setups are tied, we're just going to go in order. GMoney509's Pernicious Ambiguity https://epicmafia.com/setup/1174003 is pretty scumsided after a decent sized sample, so we'll go with betmen's "Are You The Bad Man?" https://epicmafia.com/setup/1250460 .

Please feature this until next Sunday! Thank you!

Continue posting setups and voting! The next setup will be decided on next Sunday June 23rd!
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Yeah it's way too much, there's a reason the point payouts change after 50 plays and not 200
over 5 years
sorry Giga I tried but this 200 plays rule is cramping my style!!!
over 5 years
Rebalance of one of my earlier setups

https://epicmafia.com/setup/1513181
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https://epicmafia.com/setup/1513121

Attempt #1 at trying to have the Charmer role in a setup. Please share any thoughts/balance issues!
over 5 years
Vote up lads & lasses
over 5 years
https://epicmafia.com/setup/1513003

This seems pretty fun actually
over 5 years
https://epicmafia.com/setup/1399240

I made this awhile back. It has new mechanics and in my opinion, very balanced.

I've taken the effort to run most of the outcomes and I think it's balanced, according to probability theory with optimal play mafia should win 51.5-53.5% of the time, which in my opinion is generally balanced.

I'd also love to help test out as many setups as we can, and hopefully encourage runners to stop comping the same setups.
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This Sunday will be the first new setup! Post and vote!!
over 5 years

Justin says

uhm this was fun get it to 200+ plays please
https://epicmafia.com/setup/1453406


Telepath is the most cancerous role in this website and should never be used in comp. Having a tele in game brings the boring parts of crier (people jerking around for five minutes then waiting for one clear to lead by himself) and the way Tele speaks just means everyone has to shut up while tele contacts everyone.


Soluciones says

my best creation https://epicmafia.com/setup/1363049


Seems interesting on paper, maybe a bit mafsided. dunno.


Giga13 says

The first setup (this week's) is Watch Yourself V3 ( https://epicmafia.com/setup/1495356 ). I wanted to comp it for this round but it didn't have enough plays, so leb & charley were nice enough to feature it.

Keep posting setups! And vote on them by plussing them if you want to see them featured!


Seems cool.
I think maf has to cc pr here, if maf loses a cop cc it's basically autowin for town in 2/3 setups.
Hooker might be a bit powerful for maf here and prevents cop from outing like in the 2012 version, maybe gramps would be better.
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Don't forget to vote on the setups everyone! Vote for all your favourites
over 5 years

Songin says

Add me to the list of players who will comp new setups.


Ty!
over 5 years

GMoney509 says

I think this is a really great idea! I find the comp setups to be generally more fun than the games usually hosted in red hearts, so I'm definitely for having more comp-style games hosted to get them up to 200 plays.

My favorite setup is my Pernicious Ambiguity - https://epicmafia.com/setup/1174003 ! It's a comp-style setup with less than 200 plays right now, and I think that the payouts will even out as it gets more plays!


Looks interesting, I voted it up

Thank you!
over 5 years

betmen says

And this is one I made a while back that has been very balanced so far - just not played enough times. It's a good multi setup with three different sets of strategies to put into place.

https://epicmafia.com/setup/1250460


This looks cool. As for your other one, I don't really dig sabs personally though, so I'll leave that one alone.

Thanks!
over 5 years
And this is one I made a while back that has been very balanced so far - just not played enough times. It's a good multi setup with three different sets of strategies to put into place.

https://epicmafia.com/setup/1250460
over 5 years
Good on you Giga! I made this quite recently and thought it would be a nice change to Jan 2.0 - but very much untested.

https://epicmafia.com/setup/1440775
over 5 years
I think this is a really great idea! I find the comp setups to be generally more fun than the games usually hosted in red hearts, so I'm definitely for having more comp-style games hosted to get them up to 200 plays.

My favorite setup is my Pernicious Ambiguity - https://epicmafia.com/setup/1174003 ! It's a comp-style setup with less than 200 plays right now, and I think that the payouts will even out as it gets more plays!