I definitely agree that passion is the driving aspect of Mafia. In order to have a fun game, you have to want to have fun in the game.
Tbh, this is the reason why I've not been able to get back into mafia. I want to, but all the Beginner and Standard games I've seen lately seem to be about a particular game, film, series or whatever that I'm not familiar with. I could potentially handle most mechanics (though not well enough to join an Expert game), but if I'm not familiar with the theme, then that's something else I have to get my head around, and with multiple village leader candidates asking for role PMs, some of whom might not be villagers, and potentially working out a fake role PM to fool them with, I've already got enough to get my head around.It all depends on the theme for me, if its not a theme I enjoy, then I won't play.
This is an interesting point here. Perhaps instead of having beginner games why not just scrape that and jump to intermediate straight away? While the learning curve might be steeper, beginners can also learn faster. To balance stuff probably during signups we can have players to identify themselves as beginners and limit the number of beginners playing if need be. Mods can ofc weed out non-beginners who try to say they are haha. Then allocate beginners evenly across teams.While we have made beginner games etc in the past, they never _really_ work. It's fun to be on a team with a user who's better at the game than yourself, and that's how most of us learned how to play.
I'm not sure if Circus has done very much to make mafia more accessible...
oh.. don't mind me haha xD however, if they're guaranteed to be in mafia teams then wouldn't the village directly target them knowing they're always in mafia teams ?_? sorry if I'm misunderstanding the rules or something :xI think evenly allocating beginners is a bad idea. Beginners should be assigned to mafia teams where they can have the maximum fun and information. Playing village as a newbie is boring unless the village leader is extraordinary.