ksedlar wrote:
- Mafia having some sort of bloodlust counter. Currently it looks like it's in Meghal's best interest to never make kills, unless she can connect with someone and be uninvestigable / move the time of death. She should hope that town will pick someone other than her to lynch (which would probably happen most of the time even if people didn't think she was super townie), and then if they ever don't, then she can manipulate the vote. However, town should always want to vote no-lynch, because they know that their target would only go through if they decide to lynch a townie. Thus, from an in-game perspective, it is in both sides' best interest to stall the game indefinitely. This probably won't happen because OOG people want stuff to happen, but IMO a core concept of GMing is to make sure people's OOG wants and their in-game wants never misalign too badly.
There were 5 people I could kill without looking guilty and being able to move time and place of death (max, adamyedidia, jamb, hantoa, dgrazian), so this wasn't actually the issue. But i was constantly getting splashed/roleblocked and also unwilling to go to ET just to make a kill without letting anyone know I was there, and thus be unable to hang out. There should have been some way to prevent so much roleblocking (maybe not allowing someone to be roleblocked twice in a row, or making roleblock take effect for only a few hours, or making them happen in person).
Relatedly, I was going to execute the following scheme, but never got around to it: kill someone at rollover, get roleblocked, and have their death posted at a time I was not roleblocked, making me an even townierTownie.
Also yes, town definitely should not have lynched, but for a different reason. Like, if I was being voted and manipulated the votes, I probably would have looked super sketchy. However, if mafia was in the last ~5 people alive with no lynch controls used, mafia pretty much won, due to lynch controls and hopefully ability to not get roleblocked at least once or twice by killing peopke who had already used roleblocks. This means town random lynching gave around a 50% chance which seemed wayyyy worse than the chance they actually had. What town should have done, though, was lynch a random person each day, but tell them to manipulate the votes to "no lynch." As such, they'd force the mafia to waste their lynch controls if I was ever chosen.