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ah yes vig can kill 2 people in one night, twice as likely to kill a town member, (
you have to be sure that both target are evil or why would you just random bind) and that's the only one., also because hex master with necro does give notifications it does technically hex 2 people,
(not before it has necro, and low chance since necro goes to coven leader first)my point still stands: anything this role can do, the transporter does it better.
there are only a few situations where soul binder is more useful than transporter: soul binding 2 evils and having someone kill them, and to extend a vigs kill of a town to some evil too. all other situations it is either the same or inferier. it doesn't save townies it only murders them. (If you don't know how to play this role, of course you'll throw the match)and if you do you do next to nothing and you know what the worst thing is. because tp things don't give messages unless who they were protecting (messages not of protection but of visit, so you won't get a message saying a bodyguard visited you until attacked, so even if the target got attacked the protection isn't extended)So it sucks even more than i thought! wow! was attacked that means the only situation where you protect the second person was if the first one was attacked, but whoops! all tp besides doc can only save you from one source of attack!(i don't know if they have changed this) so that's great. Perhaps extending a roleblock might be nice or a witchs/cls control potentially, but these are unlikely (u can easily ask an escort to roleblock someone, and plus if you know they are gonna rb someone you choose them as the target. How is this unlikely?)To get use out of that you would need 2 people who you KNOW need to be rbed and are just as likely to screw you over (ur basing that off someone who doesn't know how to play the game) or in general because this is still just a worse trans for town
This role only helps 2 town roles. and potentially maybe sometimes kills an extra evil.
heres the main problem with this role:
evils that give notifications when they visit: all of them besides mafia deception.(yes arso does, because of when it ignites), (notifications of visit, arsonist igniting isn't a notification of visit, it's just telling u that you were incinerated, that doesn't count)arsonist's still get the message don't they? besides md the only ones who don't give notifications ARE ONES WHO DON'T VISIT
town that does that: All tp, but only one of them actually can protect more than one person, and this requires the person they were protecting to be attacked. jailor, who you can't target his targets because they're in jail. vigilante: doubleing the chances to kill himself but he might kill an evil or 2. transporter wich would be SUPER confusing and escort who roleblocks another person
transporter has its downsides as well:
- transporting a TP away from a target, (yes I'm also gonna start basing it off a beginner who can't play this role). Especially when they transport someone who asks for TP/LO and makes them vulnerable. Or in general they transport a protected target and mafia kills them (which is likely) nope because the tp comes with, so unless it is pirate then that doesn't work
- transporting escorts away, or invests. This is gonna screw the TI and Escort if the transporter doesn't come out and claim that he transported the targets, but then this makes the transporter vulenrable and he has to waste a transport on himself or waste TP on him, then this takes it away from Jailor. And if he dies we'll RIP he wasn't of much use. Trans doesn't just transport one person visiting them it transports everyone!
- And if you're saying soul binder doesn't do much since it heavily relies on visitors, then what about transporter?it relies on 1 count em 1 town role who gives a message. and by your own rules you laid out it is the only one, you can only inhance 1 town roles action, and it is just as likely to screw it over, heres how transporter is better you and one other person is left with both roles who wins?: Trans v mafioso: trans wins or draw trans v potion master: trans wins or draw trans v pretty much every role wins or draws, unless it is someone with basic defense because then they win do to draw conditions(like if sk and gf are left sk auto wins) now with soul binder: he always loses or draws, he can never win. as easy as it is for this role to screw something up it is double as easy for soul binder to do it, trans can protect itself whereas if you claim soulbinder you are basically inviting someone to score a double kill, with a sk this role becomes the best helper as it can DOUBLE it's attack for the low low cost of FREE! heres my problem with this role: it's better at helping evils than towns. yes vig can also hurt towns but they can also just as easilly help a lot more so. this... can't. ah yes if you are smart you could extend the attack to an evil who was confirmed in the day... and not lynched? how often does that happen. also the "confirmed evil" could just be a town. this role does next to nothing to help town and does wayyyyyy to much to hurt it. as bad as vig can be it can only kill one townie plus itself, this can kill 7. can it kill an evil, sure as long they aren't immune to the attack or if the other person you targeted didn't get attacked, or the person who you wanted to extend the attack to get's attacked or a few other thousand things that could go wrong, this role should be reworked slightly and changed to neutral chaos or evil, because otherwise it would feel too similair to transporter.
tl;dr: is similair to transporter but hardly does anything to help town and has a high chance to ruin it.
Soul binder doesn't mess with TI's results and TP's protection, and is more easily able to stay hidden without coming out. It doesn't screw up an escort's rb, but instead extends it to rb evils.
Let's say you have two medium claims and you know one is fake, but you cannot confirm either one. You can get escort to rb both, instead of risk lynching, transporter wouldn't do much considering that's just wishful thinking that you rbed the fake med claim. A TI's results won't get messed up cuz you invested the wrong target.
Not hating on the Transporter role itself, but saying that these two roles seem to have both advantages and disadvantages at an equal level.