OK, answers:
Various problems / why people probably aren't joining your game:
For reference, I'm not trying to be mean. I'd love it if there were more active games. But you have a few things that need to be addressed.
I don't mind, and what you said doesn't feel malicious.
First, there aren't that many active players right now. Even games from well established mods are taking a while to fill.
Roles:
There are too many powerroles with no indication if this will be close to Paranormal (almost everyone gets a role) or Mountainous.
OK. I think this'll be very role heavy.
The Watchman and the Doctor are essentially the same thing except the Doctor can save lynchees. That's generally not a good idea.
Really? *Checks* You're right. I had it in my mind that Watchman was a Bodyguard and Doc was, well, a Doc. I'll go fix the list.
The Blind Man 'cannot cry out when killed' except no one can unless Last Words gets chosen. In addition, he can apparantly can read the Wolves' quicktopic. Which will basically make the Wolves shut up except for minimal interaction.
I already was thinking of removing it entirely, so I'll do that for now, possibly permanently.
'Optional roles' imply that all 8 of the other roles will be in the game, is this true? You don't clarify if the Lovers know each other, if a Lover can be a Werewolf, and how you're going to enforce them having to agree on lynchings.
These things are due to copy-pasting Squeegy's rules. I'll fix them all. Sidekick and Nurse will be moved into the role list and the Optional Roles spoiler will be renamed. What's the term for fings what ya get in addition to yer role?
Lovers will both be Town, know each other (It would be stupid any other way), and have their own Quicktopic. I'll get rid of that agree-on-lynch thing.
Rules:
The Werewolves choose one person to kill 'the werewolves don't know who the other werewolves are'. How are you going to enforce this?
Each werewolf has their own kill. It's right there in the rules. I'll make it more explicit, and add that if a werewolf tries to kill a wolf on their side (This means that if Factions is in effect, a wolf attacking an enemy will still kill), the the kill fails, the victim gets told the name of his attacker, and two get a Quicktopic. Phrased more simply of course.
Infectious says that you'll reduce the number of Werewolves to 1 or 2, but there will already be only 2... Essentially turning it from a traditional Mafia game to one with a Cult, which are generally much harder. How will further infections be decided? Does the game end when the originals are lynched are do all the infected Villagers have to be lynched?
I'll make it so the initial wolf or wolves are the only ones who can infect.
What happens if a Saint/Prophet is lynched?
Random person voting for them is killed. Again, I'll add this to the post.
For that matter, why do you even have the struck through items in your list? Just remove them...
Laziness. Some of the things on the list won't fit with the planned flavour for this game but, assuming this one actually starts and finishes, will appear in later games, the others I'm not sure if I'll keep. I'll remove 'em for now.
After OP:
If you don't vote, you don't get in.
Sorry, but I don't want to have to chase people to get their vote. Just donkey vote or pick at random or something if you don't care.
Not the attitude that will probably convince people to play your game.
Yeah, you're right. This is the same sort of this as shop assistants' attitudes: a cheerful, ready-to-help assistant is likely to encourage customers, whereas one with a "Meh, whatever." attitude will drive them away.
*Cough cough*
I remember this being a problem the first time Squeegy ran his version.
Which reminds me. In order to prevent this from dieing like SW II&III, when this starts, I'll make a new thread and keep this open as a "bug the mod if he fails to end the Night" topic. Or use this one for the game and make another one for mod bugging.
If the mod fails to keep the game moving, then the game deserves to die. If you don't think you can run the game and keep it more or less on schedule, don't.
I will keep this going. I meant that only as a precaution and I should have said so.
Basically, it's "No bah posts unless Last Words is in effect." I'm using a slightly, or possibly not at all (I can't remember now), modified version of Squeegy's rules this time. I'll likely make changes next time I run this, but I need to see how well it works first.
For there to be a next time, there has to be a first time. This has already died in signups at least once. Also, why is that a rule variant?
Another thing to blame on copy-pasting Squeegy's rules. I'll remove Last Words.
EDIT: It's annoying how almost half the posts in here are mine. It's not like I'm constantly waiting for other people to say something so that I can reply. Come on guys, post more.
What would people talk about? You're in signups. Generally all that happens is people join and wait for the game to start. Doesn't help that your rules don't seem particularly solid.
Yeah, that was merely an expression of annoyance, without offering a solution. So, now I'll give people a reason to post:
If you've got a question about the rules, ask it. If you've a problem with them, point it out. If you've a suggestion, speak up.One last thing:
I'm removing Last Words, making a changed version of Know Your Allies available, and wiping votes. Players, please revote ASAP.
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