Imagine there was no limit - we're on a forum that we coded ourselves and we have access to the code, and we're all super powerful programmers.

Mafia has become very important here on Smogon, and it's reached a level of complexity that can rarely be seen elsewhere; how would you improve the forums to make the experience even more gratifying for everyone (be it for games in general or for one specific mechanic)? These ideas may or may not be used, but formulating them can't hurt.

I have a few ideas myself:
-first, spectator comments. It's often annoying when you're watching a game in which you're not playing unfold, and aren't able to say anything about it. Spectator comments that you could hide so that they don't disrupt the game would be a blessing.
-a personalised control panel where you would see all the games you're in, where you're being lynched and where you have to send in a PM... it speaks for itself.
-subforums on demand - ones that would be easy to set up and to delete.
-an anonymous messaging system that hosts could turn on or off for individual games. See the upcoming MGS game for something smilar (hype!).
-a new name. Now this is subject to debate; personally, I feel that while "smogon mafia" is fine if you know what the games are, it's misleading for newcomers, and I don't see a reason not to change it besides being used to it (not a good reason imo). That's why the MGS game I talked about is called "MGS Tactical Game".


Your turn! :)

I want a mafia blacklist where we can warn and weed out inactive or disruptive users for future exclusion from games, which would also reward players who are active in mafia games with reputation

mandatory experienced cohosts for first time hosts, whether they have the playing experience of jackal or unclesam. avaST gave me some advice during smash bros. mafia and i don't think i could have pulled it off without him

maybe partner mafia held outside the priority system periodically for new mafia players. maybe make it compulsory before joining a basic mafia? the only problem i see with this is the willingness of experienced players to participate and making a different game every time, could put some strain on whoever wants to run it

not really pertaining to the discussion but i wanted to
put this somewhere lol

i like the iks idea. I'm tired of idlers ruining a mafia game then sign up for the next one...

building on TIKs idea: a mafia host blacklist, where bad hosts will be put so they aren't allowed to hosts game for a while (see the recent SW mafia for a good example).

Also, a link to the Smog article about the roles we use here on smogon as "standards". AFAIK, other places has other standard roles, for example BGs has 50/50 to die/kill the killer, while smogon is just block the kill. The link to the article would be helpful to newer hosts that have played with other standard rules, so they can check what are standard here, and then make roles accordingly.

iirc lonelyness had a small ban from mafia for ending simpsons mafia, but we never had any set time for it. backing tik and exarius here

Well, I would suggest we get subforums under CIrcus Maximus for different types of games, so tha people looking for a specific type of game can go in to directly see the queue of games of that type along with the games being played of that type. That way, somebody in 1 standard game and 1 Expert Game can keep track of his games separately without having to worry about misclicks and wrong thread posts that much.

New role: spy
description: spies on a faction, pretends to be a member, but is really not.

problems: can oust himself Day 1, then proceed to oust all the mafia.
solutions: make his role require that he not do this, require that he lives to win, make him seem to be a wolf and give him contacts in the mafia (but still be a villager)

I mentioned that to Earthworm and he mentioned it would be hard to balance. So, how would it be balanced?

i'd like a new role called warrior or fighter... the fighter gets to do a night action in the day...

That's basically daykilling sea prince, why has no-one else pointed this out yet?