Crystal Rainbow

[Party Boat]

It seems a bit rough to figure out how to play - moreso as mafia, but also at all tbh. The townies will never die unless a mafia player is elim'd, maf can choose to make a town crystals to slow down the game and give them a chance of surviving a potential 'elim', the game as a whole can also try to make a strategy where everyone's color is dictated in advance (for example everyone has to make one of red/orange/yellow the first two nights) and scum have to figure out how to make at least one scummy crystal of each AND make sure that those crystals aren't elim'd or else they might get locked out of the game if their scum partners made townie crystals of those colors and those crystals aren't elim'd. And it's more complicated than that truthfully since there's also other possibilities to worry about like if town wants to just kill every crystal of one color until they hit a scummy one, then scum should prob change to making every crystal of that color townie until they think they can get away with someone who had one removed remaking that crystal but scummy, and etc etc.

As a separate mechanical note, if one player makes a crystal of every color and it's day 7 (because scum made town crystals and say every other violet crystal was elim'd of other players) do they replace a crystal or double up on a crystal or what exactly?

It seems more complicated mind-game than mafia but if that's what 9 people are looking for then it probably at least kind of works? One of the most reasonable strategies before getting too convoluted is probably something similar to <only the towniest 2 people can make new crystals of color X & possibly Y>