I personally don’t mind pausing the game for a few weeks, as long as we continue afterwards (although I don’t know how other participants might feel about it).
This variant is rather flexible with regards to the number of participants. So I’d like to give an opportunity to all who want to try it out. Waiting a few weeks is no problem in my opinion.
However, forcing capture makes it easy to decrease an opponent’s score by throwing in stones in an annoyingly 2-space gap way, resembling efficient space-filling problems
I suggest instead that we use a komi, based on N villagers and M werewolves on a board of size X to have X2(N - M) / (N + M). For instance, 5 villagers and 4 werewolves would lead to 1/9 of the total intersection going to the werewolves as komi.
Welcome to the game @GoNXaS@NeilAgg! With this we have 11 participants
Ah yes, I forgot about that, good catch
I believe to understand your reason for this komi (although not all intersections will be filled), and think it’s a good idea. Then shall we play with area score, where dead stones need to be taken off (like tromp-taylor)?
On an unrelated note, I believe we don’t need a Ko rule.
I assume there’s a ‘not’ missing here. And I agree, inevitably someone will always be away and we’ll have to wait anyway, so let’s not worry too much about that.
Ok lets do that, and when somebody is unavailable, we pause the game. That is probably unavoidable with a large number of participants. I’ll be the arbiter.
Please confirm your participation one last time (I was going to mention the eleven people who expressed their interest, but “can’t mention more than 10 people in a post” … )
If all eleven players sign up, this is the configuration of hidden roles that I would suggest:
5x Villager - Are told that they are a villager, place stones of hidden colour Village.
1x Spy - Are told that they are a spy, place stones of hidden colour Village.
4x Werewolf - Are told that they are a Werewolf, and the set of players that are either Werewolf, Spy or Amnesiac. Place stones of hidden colour Werewolf.
1x Amnesiac - Are told that they are a villager, place stones of hidden colour Werewolf.
Is there interest for a private kibitzing thread on the ongoing game? If so, then let me know and I’ll create one where all hidden information is revealed. Needless to say no information may leak from there to the players. And I would make the kibitzing public after the game concludes.
Yeah I should have written something about that in the setup thread before the game started. I intend to handle it similar to how we handle it in some other variant games, where after some downtime the players get reminded, and after a lot of downtime, we start looking for a replacement player. There is no strict rules how long to wait, but I’d say after 2-3 days of downtime reminder, after 7-9 days of downtime start looking for replacement. Unless the player has communicated that they will be unavailable, which is encouraged.