Your voting system. What??

[Jamiet99uk]

Hi there,

I've come to this site after having played Mafia / Werewolf on four other sites / forums and a few things strike me as VERY different here from everywhere else I've played.

Two of these things are so weird to me that I wanted to ask about them.

The second is your voting system.

Where I've played before, days don't usually end in a hammer. Days are much shorter, but usually run their full 48 or 72 hour distance. At the end of a day, on those other sites, the player with the most votes is lynched - even if there are, say 11 players left, and the votes are as follows:

Clinton: 5
Trump: 4
Stein: 2

Now as I understand it, here on Mafiascum, that'd be a no-lynch result. Where I've played before, Clinton would be lynched.

Can anyone explain why your voting mechanics are the way they are?

JT

[Jamiet99uk]

Thanks everyone for your views.

On webDip, where I've come here from, the standard format is:

- 48 hour day phases
- plurality lynch at EoD
- players can hammer the phase end if the majority of players are on the same target, and the majority vote "end".

In my experience (8 games as a player, 2 as GM) that works really well.

JT

[Jamiet99uk]

Thanks everyone for your views.

On webDip, where I've come here from, the standard format is:

- 48 hour day phases
- plurality lynch at EoD
- players can hammer the phase end if the majority of players are on the same target, and the majority vote "end".

In my experience (8 games as a player, 2 as GM) that works really well.

JT

We don't prohibit moderators from running games like that. Some people here still like that. But if your goal is to make us change altogether, you should probably wonder why you're doing that.

No. I'm not trying to make anyone change.

I'm merely puzzled, and trying to understand why your default approach is such a pile of shit.

[Jamiet99uk]

48 - 72 hour days with a plurality lynch is just manifestly superior.

I'm trying to understand what possible benefit could arise from the weird way you do it here, and I can't.