First, Thank you everyone for playing! I know this was slow and painful at times, but I hope you enjoyed the setup and the flavor. I thought RadiantCowbells did a good job designing it, and I appreciate all of you for never needing a replacement nor prod despite the significant downtime.
Thoughts on play:
- That final twilight blowup was obviously over the line. I'd be mad too about getting fake guilitied by a doctor, but nothing justifies the behavior shown.
- I was not pleased about having to warn people off for sexual remarks early. "That's what she said jokes" are common enough that I was willing to give one a pass, but I was very hesitant upon seeing that he initially doubled down. Fortunately it ended here. I think the town collective handled the joke the best way possible, too: Making it clear it fell flat.
- That Day 1 vote was absurd. There's no way scum get granted a doublekill in a 9p setup. Don't vote the clear, if you get shot at least you were in the PoE.
- Day 2 was almost equally tragic. Town only has one more spare elim, don't throw it in the trash.
- Day 3, uh, existed. NM's fake guilty was bad. I don't know the motivation behind Frogsterking faking a guilty on Malakittens but it wasn't a good move no matter how you slice it.
- This game should have ended days ago. The proper way to blitz is to suggest a specific time, ideally using something synced up like time.is, and check in 5 minutes before to confirm that you will both be online. The second the minute turns blitz it, post something plausible if you're worried about the partner being slightly late.
- The Mafia team never told each other their roles. Frogsterking found out about the neighbourhood from JacksonVirgo's reveal in thread, and I don't think he ever said he was a goon or Mala that she was only a neighbour.
- "When in doubt, lurk it out" claims another perfect scumwin.
- In general, I thought this game made a strong case for nominative determinism. Be very careful what you flavor your games after, it might turn into a prophecy.
Some examples:
- I flipped Val89 as Macho Vigilante, even if it was for only a second and the reason for the error (D1 copy-paste) made it clearly non-compromising.
- I didn't tell the mafia how to submit a kill, and at first did not make clear a specific person had to make it. This could have led to tracker/watcher speculation.
- I was worried that NM's fake guilty came as a result of my failure to adjust the numbers in the VC, which made it appear to be not-ELO. There wasn't any good way to correct this.
