The Syndicate

It would discourage random votes which never help the civs. And baddies vote for who they want to ALL the time, and call it random. I will try it in my game, any random vote will be redirected to the random button, it will actually BE random, and if it sucks, no one will ever do it again.

Experimentation is fun

Epignosis wrote:I do not vote randomly, but there is nothing to stop people from just, you know, voting and not giving a reason why.

Sure, peer pressure. You random button and don't say why, you're suspicious.

Randomizing mainly benefits baddies, thats why people find it suspicious. Randomizing for someone that you don't know will eliminate that. It could be your teammate, it could be you. I think it will DISCOURAGE randomizing, not encourage it.

thellama73 wrote:

Snow Dog wrote:I do not care for the idea.

I hate random voting anyway, so I don't like the idea of making it easier to randomize.

Yeah, but this makes fake randomizing harder, you know, SAYING you're randomizing when you aren't. You could be random voting for YOURSELF.

I think this might be interesting.

Well, it's a good idea. It kind of eliminates the non random random vote. Which gives me mixed feelings, as it could make it harder for baddies, and as a host, I want balance. But it also forces creativity, which I do like. So it is worth a try.

juliets wrote:

Hedgeowl wrote:This is really interesting. It would be fun for someone to give this a try in one of the games. Just to see how the mechanics would work. I have also been thinking about the idea of a dead chatzy. SO much more fun, plus all the early dead players would still get to "play" rather than be out on day 1, etc.

We have had some games with dead chatzy and the only problem i have seen is when only one or two of the dead players show up to the chatzy. Others have had a dead thread that only the deadies can see. It's fun if you have contests to get back in the game and such, usually people will participate in those whether its chatzy or a dead thread.

Some dead chats turn lame yeah, but some turn into Moobyworld, which was pretty awesome

I really like this idea, I might put a modified version into American Gods to see how it works, like maybe choose someone from the Day Zero poll, and give that mechanic to the Mod in advance to be fair, like say the second person to vote for the winning option, and THAT person becomes the Day one random button, and so forth.