Mafia: general discussions.

To give more ND that you have to think about, which will give players newspaper-like food for thought.

they say you'll be running a mafia game soon. Will you demonstrate what such ND looks like? Because I can't imagine what that could be.
You already have to think a lot about NDs as it is ) What can I say, just to remember a setup, you have to read it at least three times )

As for "keeping quiet". Well, yes, in classic mafia, offers are voted out first. In my early HeroWorld games, I used to do the same out of habit. But the local specifics are that you can expose an offer's role in principle without lynching/killing them.
So it seems to me the reason for keeping quiet is plain laziness and loss of interest. Hmm... I think the topic started precisely with why interest is lost )

Regarding silence, we should also not forget that the most talkative players get voted out on the first or second turn. Well, third. So the instinct of self-preservation makes you talk less ) And towards the end of the game, there's hardly anyone left to talk to.
There's an old way to solve this problem, but you won't like it — let the dead talk. But in that case, you'd have to significantly change the balance. Besides, not everyone likes being drowned by corpses.