Posts from Mafia 99. The tragedy of the city of Ve-He. Auto-translated

The question should be posed on a more global scale.

"What is the point of investigative roles if they are not allowed to hint at their information in any way?"

1) There is psychology involved. If someone is exposed, they reveal the information.
2) There are notes. They check and write it in the newspaper.
3) There is a classic scenario. The commissioner checks and the commissioner kills.
4) But in our case, it turns out to be a "role for one person," not "for the town." They check and then sit with their information. And God forbid they even make a statement without providing arguments, "quotes from the accused player's posts that supposedly expose them or excerpts from the newspaper."
Think about it. If the investigator doesn't leave any hints about the nighttime information in their posts, how is it different from a regular town member without a special role? What is the point of the role? Of course, hints can be different, but that's why there is a Game Master who distributes modkills when necessary.

Well, actually, yes, I wrote at the end of the day that if it helped you avoid death and kill that nasty Olam, then that's what you should have done.

The question should be posed on a more global scale.

"What is the point of having investigative roles if they are not allowed to hint at their information in any way?"

1) There's psychology involved. If someone is revealed, they name the information.
2) There are notes. They check and write it in the newspaper.
3) There's the classic scenario. The commissioner checks and the commissioner kills.
4) But in our case, it turns out to be a "role for one person," not "for the town." They check and then sit on their information. And God forbid they even make a statement without providing arguments, "quotes from the accused player's posts that supposedly expose them, or excerpts from the newspaper."
Think about it. If the investigator doesn't leave any hints about the night information in their posts, how is it different from a regular town member without a night role? What's the point of the role? Of course, hints can be different, but that's why there's a Game Master who distributes modkills when necessary.

You know that when you kill Shamans and Bodyguards, the bonuses stack, right? In the best-case scenario, you could have gotten 3 defense.
Regarding isolation.

and Zesma was definitely waiting for you to kill her instead of going to bite you and get a one-time defense, as soon as it became clear who the Scoundrel was ))
You wouldn't have killed Zesma; didn't you realize that the Curse had been lifted by that time?

explain. What did the Mafia do wrong?

It wouldn't have made a difference. It was, as you said, "nothing personal, just business." There was no point in leaving mana when they were doing well without it.

In general, to avoid daytime reveals from bored investigators, we need to actively introduce notes and note-based warfare. Something like each peaceful role having 2-3 notes per game, with each note containing information about 1-2 nights, no more. The Mafia has the right to write 2-3 notes per night. The result is a war of genuine notes against fake ones, and their analysis during the day. This is much better than a competition of who can reveal better.

May I repeat the words of a great man and say that notes are "a tumor in the Mafia gameplay"?

They should have been identified before others killed them or they managed to escape (remember Mort). Well, let's say I didn't know about stacking defenses, but... Besides Temna, frankly speaking, even if all the healers were identified quickly, there was no hope. Kenol and Shan-Ma have defenses that I can't break. Also, I need to be able to make a move at all, because there isn't always an opportunity to resurrect (and when there is, the resurrected role might be too strong and dangerous to take such a step). In short, it's impossible, unless I get incredibly lucky.

It's okay, it's fine. In light of the defense, it probably would have been worth biting Zesme, because I didn't understand that trick at the time, to be honest.