Board Thread:Role Ideas (Other)/@comment-35356104-20190915175315

Qualities in Reviewing

Objectivity: Evidence-based writing. Deliver facts if possible. Facts can be confirming statement from individual with credential and credibility like Devs and Mods, and are publicly recognized. Devs had stated that "Amnesiac is swingy, Survivor is a kingmaker", and it was agreed by the community, then it's a fact. If you're theorizing concepts, ideas, philosophies or speculation, be sure support them with evidence. Evidence can be presented in various form, such as simulation of gameplay, well-elaborated opinion, statistics & survey, observation, or stance & reaction of the majority. Although these are not necessarily true and may vary from time to time, it shows that "you're not saying something simply because you feel this way with only a flash of thought", but you digest phenomenon or circumstances you see and experienced into ideas. It improves credibility of your own saying by building argument with real, visible, existing, relatable statements. Your idea is better in persuasiveness if evidence that can be seen by anyone, for the best, creator and reviewer share the same perspective on the evidence.

Critical: Analyse rationale. There're a lot of strategies of for that, for instances, compare & differentiate, categorizing, sequencing, predicting outcome, infering, reasoning, etc. You may our own way to do it, as long as it is logical & reasonable. However, among the strategies, questioning is the part where one shouldn't miss out. Always ask why creator designed their role that way. Put yourself in the creator's position to look and understand. If you still couldn't see the "why", ask the creator. Don't condemn things right away, you'll be embarassed if you really missed out anything. THIS IS WHY "REASON" SECTION IS IMPORTANT IN FORMATTING ROLE IDEA. Once you get their response, determine if the rationale is really rational through the methods stated above. If you get into a disagreement with creator, be humble, accepting and reflective. You aren't correct all the time, reevaluate your own argument, look for holes in it, reaffirm your statement if you think you're still right there. But if you see mistakes in your opinion, take a step back, be a gentleman, say: "Oopss... My mistakes. You're right :)"

Systematic: Set a flow and follow the procedure. Look at the bigger picture, layer by layer, goes to every detail. Get the main concept of the role. What's the purpose? Does the ability suitable for the alignment and faction? Next, identify the problems. Prioritize major issue, it can get an idea scrapped if it is too serious. Minor issues should not omitted too. Think butterfly effect. Once upon a time, there was a GF massacre due to it shared the same investigative result as Mayor. Investigative result is a very very small part that was forgotten almost every time, but it may end up nasty. After listed out the problems, complete the picture of cause and effect. Once you have a clear vision of all things, trust me, it isn't hard to think of solution. Organize a bit, write it out: Main idea, supporting details, example, & paragraph closure. Most of the reviewers have no problem writing review with the aid of format. The title itself is self-explanatory XD Not much else to say, but people tend to miss out information here and there. Proper process helps us to understand the role thoroughly, and will less likely to overlook parts.

Creative: Innovative in thinking and expressing. Thinking not only in terms of creating new idea, but also exploring definition and new perspective. You may also try new reviewing method, changing template once in a while to fit in the context of the idea. Now you have some new ideas, and you afraid that nobody could understand. Analogy & metaphor help. They make the deep shallow enough to be understood without cutting off the meaning. You can also wrap some simple & common saying fancy. This part is not really a must, but isn't it nice to see something new occasionally?

What to look at?

Overview: The main notion of the role

Productivity: Effectiveness of the most consistent outcome

Potential: Stages of capability

Consistency: How dependant the role is

Efficiency: UP, OP, or competent enough? Similiar to "balance", but in-depth measurement of where it is placed in terms of overall effectiveness

Risk & Drawback: Enough to not sending a role overbroad, but not too hindering until a role turns UP

Fun: Subjective topic :)

Interaction

With creator: It's okay not to be a Mr. Know-It-All, it's fine to say "I have no idea", instead of pushing yourself theorize something big that makes half sense. Stay humble, reviewers aren't superior entity. You're an advisor, maybe a critic, but not a judge who condemn. Be open-minded, sometimes we may overlook things or being wrong about some issue. Be patient, not everybody knows what you know. There are new creators who never heard of old famous rule like RNG, Role Conversion, etc. Don't do lazy review, but it's not necessary to write a long long essay.

With other reviewers: Sometimes you may have a total oppositional opinion to the others', but this doesn't mean that one must be wrong. It's nice to have a friendly debate, you'll know how much information was thrown into a "fight" when you take a look back afterward XD It's a nice thinking training too, like you squeeze out everything you can relate to consolidate your claim. Still, be open-minded, they may see what you don't. If you find some information are given wrongly or makes only a little sense, be polite in reminding them. You don't need embarrass anyone to get a fact straight.

"Undefined" page popped out in General Discussion, that's why I'm here :P Hope to left something useful before going semi-hiatus. Tell if I need to add more topic or elaborate better & deeper on existing point :) 