Mafia Roles and Hosting

[Final-Fan]

I think that list is needlessly complicated, dsister.  KISS is critical for the sorts of numbskulls who put the games at the most risk of going off the rails like that. 

I take away two main lessons from Game 22. 

ONE:  We need to make it more extravagantly clear how unacceptable PM quoting is, since several people clearly didn't get the memo.  Punishment should be severe, with modly discretion for truly dire consequences should circumstances warrant extraordinary measures. 

TWO:  (And this is my opinion)  We need a break from flavored games; they are OK for people who already know basic mafia play but it is clearly destroying the minds of new players, whether they blurt out their entire role PM, or think role-name gamesmanship is the #1 strategy to use, or simply think incredible power roles are completely ordinary for townsfolk and don't believe a no-powered townie is a credible role for someone to claim. 

In short, we need vanilla mafia back.  AT LEAST one or two games. 

P.S.  It is also my opinion that deadlines just encourage people to run out the clock.  "Two weeks?  Plenty of time, I won't even bother posting for the first week."  Although my game has had its ... problems ... I think the pacing was OK, or at least it didn't take two whole weeks per day.  If a day does get ridiculously long, I think an ad hoc method should be applied where the mod makes a judgment call and sets a deadline any reasonable player should be able to check in and not get blindsided by ... I'd say 48-72 hours.  If you can't at least glance in the thread every 3 days, you should not be playing. 

P.P.S.  It should also be made even more ABUNDANTLY CLEAR in the sign up thread that signing up is a commitment and give an idea of the expectations of a player and how devastating it is to a game to be modkilling people left and right due to them not being bothered to actually play the game they signed up for.  Substitutes such as c03n3nj0 in Game 22 are better than nothing but frankly not by much, since they are totally different people (hurting anyone trying to get a read) and they have to read hundreds and hundreds of posts in a short time when called upon and they don't have whatever relationships naturally form over the course of the game. 

If we scare away some fainthearts, at this point I prefer that fate to having to modkill one or two new players every goddamned game because they get bored or never even play to begin with.  I know that sometimes things just happen and I trust that that's the case with noname, and for all I know gurgles, but honestly something has to be done to at least prevent what is preventable.