I don't follow this description.
This is the role PM from RMM4:
Pokemon name: Mew
Role name: Mastermind
Alignment: Companion
Moveset:
Mew
Amnesia
Abilities:
Amnesia--Each night, you will PM the mods a list of all living players with a proposed set of alignments for each player. Your guesses for alignments should correspond to the colors BLUE, RED, YELLOW, where RED is Companions. You are not told what BLUE or YELLOW represent. We will respond to your player/alignment pair list Mastermind style. You will be told the number of correct guesses and the number alignment guesses which would have been correct if you had put them in the right position.
Win Condition: You win when all Pokemon not aligned with you have fainted.
I've never played Mastermind; what exactly does "correct if you had put them in the right position" mean?
This is the calculation, as I understand it:
Let C(colour) be the actual number of players who are a certain colour.
Let G(colour) be the number of times I have guessed that colour.
Let M(colour) be equal to min(C(colour), G(colour))
Let X be the number of players whose colour I have guessed 100% correctly.
The result I receive is of the form:
"Right colour in right place: X
Right colour in wrong place: M(red) + M(yellow) + M(blue) + M(white) - X" (this will then be the total number of colours that I have correctly guessed to EXIST in the game, minus the ones that I've actually guessed entirely right.)
Haddock, can you post just results you have received each night - the versions with no errors?
I thought I'd essentially done this, but sure.
N1 guess:
ash, Awaclus, chairs: Yellow
DatSwan, Galz, Blue
Space: White
Lalight/Teproc/EFHW, Haddock, gkrieg, schadd, e, Jake, Dylan, iguana, WW, silver: Red.
N1 response (after mod correction):
Right colour right place: 6
Right colour wrong place: 7
N2 guess:
EFHW, DatSwan, WW: Yellow
Dylan: Blue
ash, Haddock, Awaclus, gkrieg, chairs, e, Jake, Galz, iguana, silver: Red
N2 response:
Right colour right place: 7
Right colour wrong place: 5
Haddock, can you post just results you have received each night - the versions with no errors?
Same.
Also, is e included and therefore one of the right colors in the right place?
Correct. Also myself.
@Haddock,
Does your action have any target?
I do not know whether I am considered as having no target or as having targetted everyone, or what. I will ask.
What about Space on N2? She's living dead, right? But Haddock would have thought she was just dead.
Space uses singular they as a pronoun.
In answer to your question, I do not know. I thought Space was dead and so I did not include them in my guess. My role is definitely supposed to guess all living players, so I expect I would have "thrown an error" as it were if Space counted as living.
I didn't read Space's flip in any detail: "Insane Doctor" didn't sound like the sort of role that would have any reason to survive a lynch, and I didn't go back and look.
I really don't like Dylan's super-hedgy approach to my claim. I also don't like his earlier attempt to paint people's temptation to lynch a lurker as scummy. I certainly didn't look at the VLA thread, and I don't think that should be expected. If you're VLA, it's your responsibility to make sure people in the game know that you are. (That said, Dylan, sorry about your basement - that sounds incredibly sucky
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Result analysis upcoming.