Board Thread:Role Ideas (Town)/@comment-25155198-20180306221947/@comment-28112409-20180310052120

No it's not cool.

Let's presume option 1, yeah?

The point of the Broadcaster is giving the user anonymity, so he can speak during the night without worrying about being targeted. That's it, it serves no other purpose.

Right, you got anonymity during the night and you can speak freely... now what? I'll tell you what, there's no point of even bothering with you. The evils can't be bothered with such a nuisance, they'll just continue to search for the better targets. The Broadcaster can't do anything helpful with that anonymity and it honestly has little to no benefits at all compared to being able to speak at day. This anonymity is later neutralized by the easy ability to confirm yourself, therefore making the role's core concept pointless.

"But he can command all the townies and give them orders to do and stuff"

Oh silly me! Of course! He can command the Town and maximize the efficiency of their actions, that's amazing! Would be a shame if the evils could hear every single detail of that plan... oh wait... "You will speak to the server anonymously each night you live".

The Broadcaster has nothing worth sharing. He'd only be able to speak his own mind which he can do in the day anyway, so really what's the point? Any other information that could be shared is either impossible to know for the Broadcaster or is already public.

"It can self-confirm though, isn't having a self-confirmable townie useful?"

Yes, and it also sends the role idea to the trash can, congrats. Now let's presume option 2, ay?

Option 2 has the exact same usefulness as option 1: non-existent. The most ironic thing though, is that you said option 2 would solve the problem of an easily self-confirmable townie. In reality, you changed nothing, the problem is still there.

If what you meant by "Player has established a broadcasting system" is that the player's name would be revealed, then the problem is still there. If you meant that the player's name will not be revealed at all and it will just say that a Broadcaster set it up, then the problem is also still there. Do you know what I can do a second or two before I click on that sun icon? Say that I'm a Broadcaster and will reveal myself. Boom, self-confirmed.

Now I need to address the tumorous statement that you made by the words of "This is pretty much a better alternative to a Medium". If you seriously think that's true after reading this, then you should've posted this role in the Jokes board. No it's not an alternative to Medium, let alone a better one.

Medium deals with the dead. Relaying information from the dead is much more powerful than you think it is. The Broadcaster gives off useless information from the living to the living. Medium is much better than Broadcaster.

"But townies can whisper to the Broadcaster and he can then spread the information without risking their death."

The Broadcaster's self-confirmability is already something that shouldn't exist and takes the entire role idea to the trash bin. For the sake of being generous, let's ignore the fact that it can self-confirm easily, alright?

First off, the evils also hear the information, so they also benefit from it. It's the exact same as saying that information in the day, everyone hears it and uses it. Not to mention the issue of anyone believing you or questioning how you got such info.

Second off, if you were publishing Invest results, for example... do you know what evils can do? Go back to the chat log, trace the whispers that have been sent your way, and then kill those whisperers because they're the important townies whispering to you. Oh, and they get the invest results as bonus information. Again, the concept of "anonymity" that this role is trying to work has been executed so horribly.

Oh, and to make it all worse, you narrow down the range of guessing important townies by 1. You're terribly useless and you're self-confirmed, the evils could just scratch you off the list. If I wanted a self-confirming townie, I'd get myself a Mayor. At least he can actually do something alongside the ability to self-confirm, he doesn't just sit there like a little kid and spew out useless crap at night.

This role is as useless as an AFK townie, simple as that.