In post 43, DrippingGoofball wrote:In my experience, replacements are strongly AI.
If you want to hone your scum game, hit up the replacement thread and chances are you're going to end up with a scum slot.
I believe that the situation has gotten much worse over the history of the site. I would say that about 60-70% of my personal replacements were scum slots recently.
Report players to the listmods if they replace out to spew alignment.
This is a site meta issue but this still puts the onus on the players.
Report the player to the listmods if they are replacing out upon seeing a red Role PM and not giving a good reason. That is a bad faith replacement. That player is not only making an AI replacement but also practicing unsportsmanlike conduct.
1 - Should not be considered Normal as you're allowing outside influences to coach players. Probably acceptable in non-bastard Themes as long as it is clearly marked. This was workshopped for Newbie games, but I think the proposal fell through.
2 - I would not know how to do that myself, besides that is a cultural shift that would likely take a while to implement.
3 - Good idea, gamethrowing makes games unfun.
4 - Probably another cultural shift is required for this but we can at least not be sore winners or sore losers. Mafia with no third parties could be flavored as a zero-sum game, and those aren't fun.
5 - This would require fundamentally changing the language we define to use in Mafia to the point of changing the name of the game itself.
All in all I suggest making losing fun. Losing should be preferable to replacing out even if you're one who cares about winrate or ELO (not the same thing as ELo - ELO is a rating system) in Mafia.