Qikz wrote:The trouble is this isn't an ordinary mafia game. There are no roles, there's nothing really to go on about who is what team and even so even if you can work out what team someone is I don't think it really helps at all. It might be because I still honestly don't really understand the rules at all though, but you can't really play this like a normal mafia game.
I think I have a decent handle on the rules and can maybe discern some of the "game design" intent behind them. I hope Dan doesn't feel too stressed about everyone saying they're hard (
) - I don't think they're
that hard, I think they're just new and unfamiliar.
The game is divided into two phases.
During the weekEvery day someone will throw a name out there - like Drumstick suggesting Chris today - and then you have to think, "hmm, which Tribe are they in?". If you guess right
and your guess wins,
you will receive Victory Points.
However, because both votes and Tribe point totals are public, the more votes you participate in, the more likely it is someone else will be able to triangulate your tribe. (As well as matching up point totals, there may also be other patterns in voting behaviour, like noticing a block of people who never vote for a particular Tribe.)
During the weekendThen, the weekend is kind of similar to lynching in Mafia. By private vote, two of the five people that were investigated in the week are killed. If you vote to lynch a person whose Tribe was previously correctly identified
and they die, you will receive Victory Points.
The ultimate goal is to achieve numerical domination, so you want to vote to save Tribe members, but also vote to lynch identified people to receive Victory Points.
Separately to those core parts of the game, Dan is also going to run extra minigames throughout that will probably lead to more information and (of course) Victory Points.
So I think the core tensions are:
1. Do you participate in lots of votes, giving away information about yourself, but potentially accumulating Victory Points?
2. Assuming a Tribesmate is up for lynch, do you prioritise voting to save them or voting to accumulate Victory Points?
(There is likely a similar information vs. Victory Points tension for the minigames too but we haven't seen them yet.)
EDIT: Dan says below vvvvv that this isn't quite right as you don't get Victory Points for a lynch, only for using a KILL power. But we do need to decide "do we save people will SAVEs or try to accumulate points by firing off KILLs when someone's Tribe becomes known?".