Board Thread:Role Ideas (Neutral)/@comment-28205575-20170127023231/@comment-27398195-20170128005439

Lukenick89 wrote: I got an avatar now, and the one thing people seem to say the problem is the flaw I already addressed and is the main reason I gave the option of 3 targets to switch. You would NOT be able to switch vampires or mafia between anybody other than themselves because of way too easy information. The only people the Exchanger can trade roles between would include Townies and Neutral-NonChaos. So you could switch the Werewolf with the Jailor, the Serial Killer with the Arsonist, or Jester with Serial Killer, and most obviously town within the town and most neutrals within each other. You could even have a Survivor switch with a Jailor. Yes, there are flaws, but if these were to be fixed, it would be an excellent role. You asked what was wrong with swapper roles, I told you one reason.

Also, by swapping roles, you soft counter Town Investigatives by being able to change what role that person actually is. For example, lets say I swapped the escort and the serial killer and the investigator checked the escort, the investigator checks the escort and sees "escort/consort/transporter", the investigator then "confirms" the escort as being innocent though in reality they are now the serial killer. This also can mess with confirmed roles by changing them into a different role, say changing the mayor into a survivor, now the mayor is now suspious now that they are not voting and claim they get changed into a survivor, they could be a vampire now.

There is many reasons why role swappers are bad, but lets sum it up with this, you change peoples role into another goal, therefor changing their goal, which is something BMG doesn't want, it works well in games like one night ultimate werewolf because it's their own game and it's about confusion. Town of Salem is not about confusion, it is about the ability to lie well and be able to spot lies well. Not to mention, role swapping will be hard to code it.

​Rejected.