11-17-2021, 05:09 PM
(11-17-2021, 04:47 PM)michaelsean Wrote: I’m sure it’s more complicated, but can’t you stay undiscovered by just not telling anyone?
If only it were so easy! There are two core challenges for the mafia team:
1) They are informed, so they start the game knowing each other. They are hiding themselves as well as their teammates, and sometimes it can be difficult to avoid tipping players off that you know more than they know.
2) You spend the game's Day phases trying to get members of the town team voted out, which means you have to accuse them of being mafia or of doing suspicious things even when you know they're innocent. The main objective of the town is to figure out who's engaging in that kind of BS.
The intellectual challenge of the game, especially in the forum format, is to be able to get away with those kinds of fake perspectives (or to figure out who is doing the faking).
