A traditional mafia game, with one kill and one investigate (and maybe one protect) typically lasts anywhere up to 20 days. You guys are so used to OP mafias with a thousand kill powers, it's natural you'd be confused by one with only 2-3 killers floating around.
Huh? You're talking about real time days instead of phases, right? I think KTF was talking about the actual game day phases when talking about Day 10, haha.
Plenty of LU games have only had 2 - 3 kill anyway.
ps. Classic Mafia totally went for 3 days I think. Day 6 was the last day phase. There was one kill, one protect, one block, one investigate. 18 people. 1200 posts. So it's not like we can't cope with different game styles.
Fun fact: There are no actual investigators in this game. There was a role investigator, one who could ask a yes or no question, a tracker, and one who could ask questions giving a numeric answer.
And every time someone else uses an action that isn't the above and it's included in the write-up it essentially becomes an investigative action as well. It's rarely too many investigators that's the issue but the combination of identification through write-ups
and the investigative actions that result in town essentially knowing the majority of who town is in end-game. To compound the issue, people have passive protection. I am pretty torn on the write-up issue I mentioned, though, because I do love your write-ups... but at the same time I feel like there's too much information for town imo. It doesn't feel like an uninformed majority.
I know you don't often like giving direct investigations which I like personally. However there are still four very nice investigative actions right there as well as other actions that end up saving the same purpose in the write-up.
On the OP mafia comment, I think that's part of the problem, trying to 1-up previous mafias to keep it interesting. I think there have been few games now that have proven mafia can be successful on LU without being power crazy.
To be blunt, the Treasure Hunter faction never had a chance. They were considerably weaker than a faction that (probably) had 3x their numbers... town. I don't know about the others.
My one regret in this game has been having too many protected players and not enough kills.
Personal preference and all that, but if I had to choose, I'd go less protected rather than more kills.
And bullshit on an informed majority. There has been only two players in town all game who could communicate.
With everything I said above in mind, that's what I meant by informed majority. Town have been overly informed all game, imo. In a way, it felt like there were too many town threats yet not nearly enough tools to deal with them. Not h8in' just sayin'.
