I'd like to add my two cents.
I don't like the new trends in Mafia games related to finding clues. I believe that the essence lies precisely in the search – it’s the main process. For example, I don't understand anything about anime, but I see Neyra's avatar, go to some random anime websites, find a biography of this character, read it, find white sandals mentioned there, then look for an image of this character wearing those sandals, and post it in the thread. But what is happening now? In several games, Lady Slonysh asks, "Who is on your avatar? Are you too lazy to name them? Or are you Mafia?" And everyone just names them. Where is the game, actually? The most surprising thing is that there is no effect from this. Even with "open" profiles, people don't look for clues! They simply stopped doing it. Look at the 15th Mafia game. Everyone was searching! Wesker searched, Nebo searched, Cash, Brack, me... Hostor-Mafia was sweating trying to find Berber images on townspeople!
I also played as Mafia, and I perfectly understand how lazy it is to look for clues when playing as Mafia. But the Town forces you to do it through its activity. If you don't look for clues, you stand out. But what is happening now? In the last game, Slonysh doesn't look for clues (at first), which Host literally shouts about. But who would suspect her of being Mafia if the Town isn't looking either?
Well, Hostor is a man of the old school, still from BF days; he always looks for clues regardless of his role. But what about the others? Vegtam said who is on his avatar, analogy with Kraken, post it! But it didn’t work.
Now let's imagine that I am Mafia and want to give a *good* false clue related to my avatar. That is, it indirectly points to me and directly/indirectly to someone else. It benefits me if this clue pointing to me is not immediately found. But if I have to say who is on my avatar, what's the point in straining myself and creating such clues? It's easier to come up with a complex clue that indirectly points to me and hope that "maybe they will think of someone else."
In general,
here is a brilliant post by Mr. Gura. But this is just my personal opinion on the development of Mafia games. I am
{completely} switching to psychology – I don't like the current version of finding clues. Please don't take anything personally.
P.S. Otherwise, I agree with Hostor, at least with the part of him that I communicated with. :)