That would be okay with Butler, but would be awkward with Drunk
Now you know how i felt when they made the Priest unconvertible.
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Boslof and Orange are both right. Orange wants to see the game perfectly balanced so that there can be an interesting and fun balanced ranked mode, while Boslof wants to see a game where everyone, even if there’'s some balance problems, is having enough fun and feel like they have a reasonable chance to win.
Both are views which are perfectly viable, and if we ever do get a ranked mode, which will be in a long time, that’s when thinking like Orange, who balances for good players rather than for less good ones, will become useful. Nevertheless, we can’t just go all in on balance and neglect perception. CW would’ve been left alone otherwise. Let’s take the NKs, for example.
I love playing NK, because despite NK wins being rare you always feel like they’re acheivable. It’s all a matter of perception. Bos has carefully crafted each NK to feel like they can win always, that they always have the tools to pull off daring plays that fool the entire BD. That’s enough to make the NKs feel winnable, and thus fun.
Also, controversial opinion time:
Old Court Wizard was bad because the threat it stopped was the mostly abstract ‘Negative Effects’. It’s hard to care about something as intangible and ephemeral as the vague concept of Negative Effects, never mind the lack of feedback.
also we have a disturbing tendency to always think that days are 72 hours long please free us from this curse
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That’s my long and rambling ultamatum on that argument that happened earlier in the thread.
Why is sorc my favorite neutral killing even though you die and give inquistor a free win…
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Honestly whenever i’m in a game with the Inquisitor i insist that we execute him.
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To add onto Ici’s point, there does exist a “perfect drug theory” where there is a perfect combination of competitiveness balance and playability/fun balance. THIS is what every game developer strives for, but just like modern medications, every change you make to the molecular structure of a pharmaceutical creates unintended side effects which are difficult to remove entirely - you just accept the lesser of them and call it a day.
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A: I’m hunter.
B: No i am.
A: You lying bitch i am.
B: No you are.
Me: Execute both.
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Actually it’s less.
Day 1. 1 is the king and I am not the sorc 14 players left. Hey I am prince claims to me. 13.
Well he is not high.
Oh shit.