alex1234321 wrote:SilverCruz wrote:I mean as far as Mafia quits go, my go-to lately has been sockpuppets. Godfather quits, Godfather stays in the game and can be proxy-controlled by other Mafia for voting and targeting purposes.
How would this work? Would one person control the Godfather or would all the Mafia members vote on who the GF should vote/target?
My first call would be to field test having it take the latest suggestion received. Example.
- Mafioso is jailed.
- Godfather (who is in Slot 12) quits.
- Framer punches in "/q 12 14" to direct the Godfather to attack whoever's in Slot 14, let's say it's William Hobbs. Godfather declares an attack against William Hobbs.
- Forger punches in "/q 12 6" to direct the Godfather to attack whoever's in Slot 6, let's say Giles Corey. Godfather instead decides to attack Giles Corey.
- Mafioso is too busy dealing with the Jailor to try declaring a target.
- This can loop until night time runs out, at which point Godfather executes the attack on whoever it was declared against at that moment. It will ignore calls to attack other members of the Mafia completely because those are invalid targets.
Same goes for other Mafia roles as well. Likewise, all Mafia roles should report the result of their visit if it's not self-evident, I.E. Godfather is directed to attack Giles Corey, and Giles Corey doesn't go down because he was healed, immune, or had armor, so the next night Godfather will spit out a canned statement of "My target's defense seemed to be too strong.". Likewise, if a quitter Consigliere is sent to investigate William Phips and finds that he's an Executioner, it will report "My target seems to be an Executioner." the next night.
A functional Mafia that can cooperate should be able to use the chat box to establish what they want to do and why they want to do it, so leaving it to random chance seems like a poor idea. I'd also allow jailed Mafia to declare a quitter's attack so that they can't get deadlocked, I.E. Mafioso quits and Godfather gets jailed while the RMs are both down, Godfather can still declare an attack for Mafioso to execute through being jailed because that's nothing Mafioso wouldn't be able to do if it hadn't quit.
Is it a perfect solution? No. But if you try to be perfect on your first attempt, you'll just hold yourself back. Sometimes you just need to get something that works better than what you've already got, and you can go from there if it becomes the most important thing to deal with again later.
Also, day voting works the same way, and there is no public feedback when the Mafia is day voting. So if during the day a Mafia punches in "/q 12 6", Godfather with vote against Giles Corey, and nobody will see who did it or any insinuation that it wasn't a perfectly normal vote aside from Godfather being awfully quiet.
I know what I'm doing, generally, but I have no grace at all when things start to spin out of control.
I'd like to address the latter part, but I wouldn't know the first thing about that.