The only solution I see is killing N1 people who are incapable of playing decently as a traitor. This way if you kill a traitor, you know the game was screwed from the beginning.
And when traitor is N1'd, it doesn't mean town autowin. Mafia still has a chance to play it off with 2 mislynches.
Also, in games with carol, replacing traitor with a quack would be more mafsided. In traitor games, carol means there's one mafia in spy and stalker and lynching one of them hinders the mafia chance of winning with another carol. If there was a quack, the carol might be focused around the quack which would make the carol useless once the quack is lynched.
And quack is visiting. It means that if you let somebody like traitor/quack cc pr and confirm to LM, quack would have a way to confirm himself, traitor not. Quack means another visiting role which can help the mafia find the LM.
And about journ-caroler combo. If the selected person is traitor, they have no choice but receive the carol. The carol might include the traitor, killed person or the journalist who reads it. About quack - he can visit so journ won't know any information about that.
"Jingle all the way" would actually be better with a Quack instead of a Traitor.
The way I see it, the setup being 49%/50% is a red herring, because it leads people to think it's balanced, when it's actually mafsided. It's just that 1/7 of games end as autowin for town because mafia n1s traitor. If traitor lives, the setup becomes mafsided.
Quack is a nonkilling mafia role that is basically a mafia doc, but he will just nv every night to get caroled since his power is useless.
Having a nonkilling mafia role would change a few things : - Impossible to n1 him (helps mafia) - Can be included in carols (helps town) - Allows quack to wifom visit loudmouth (meme play)
The setup would probably end up more mafsided than before (maybe 46/54?), but it would rely more on skill, and less on random n1 luck.
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