Hello everyone! I would like to ask the people who are interested in this event to participate and contribute as much as possible.
In order for 2 new roles to be added to em, the community has to work together to refine the ideas that are going to be mentioned below. We have to collectively select 2 of the best ideas and make sure their version is the best one possible. The next step would be to come up with some sort of artwork for the selected roles. Lucid mentioned something about rewarding the users behind the artwork that would get selected in the end for those 2 roles.
Jack the Ripper (originally Hypocrite)
Jack the Ripper hates anyone who kills.
Jack the Ripper only wins when the game ends and all murderers are dead.
If Jack the Ripper receives a gun or knife and kills someone with it, he will not consider himself a murderer.
To Jack the Ripper, murderers are killing roles or any other player that has successfully eliminated someone else (shot, stabbed, blown up, etc.)
If a player survives one of these actions, Jack the Ripper will not consider the attacker a murderer.
(~Jennings)
Cat Lady
Chooses one player every night. The player is instantly alerted that a cat is at their door. They have two options: Kill the cat, and let it go. If you kill the cat, you are roleblocked and the Cat Lady doesn't know who was visited. If you let it go, the Cat Lady learns your role.
Sided with the mafia. (~Her)
Robinhood
Visits two people, taking all items from the first and giving them to the second (cannot visit self either way)
Action fails if trying to steal from a mafia
Sided with the village (~Torreador)
Vice President
If the president dies, takes their place
All townies immediately receive a message of their new president
Attends mafia meetings, and makes them anonymous
Cannot win if they are the vice president (~Alyssa)
Gossiper
Chooses one person every night.
Will see some whispers this person receives/makes.
If lynched at the end of the game, the last mafia can guess who the Seer is for autowin.
If the Seer dies, they will appear as a random (non-mafia) role in the setup and their will will always be blank. If dead, the mafia can still attempt a guess to the Seer's identity at the end of the game.
If there are multiple Seers in a game, only one Seer will know the mafia at any given time.
If there are two mafias and multiple Seers, the knowledge of the mafias will be split between them.
Sided with the village. (~Shwartz99)
Whistleblower
Once per game can force someone to vote someone else. Vote cannot be OT'D if it is a hammer. Sided with maf
(Will create more tension in selfing/hammering based setups (~Moldyches)
Soldier
If they are the last man standing against a single mafia or third party, the village wins.
Sided with the village. (~XFire)
PowerTown
Each night chooses a power role from the options provided to him. (the mods should determine the list)
Night meeting goes accordingly
Sided with the village
PowerMafia
Each night chooses a mafia role from the list.
Night meeting goes accordingly
Sided with the mafia
What is your favorite role mentioned in this thread?
With the addition of king, it appears that EM has a government similar to that of the UAE. The UAE is one of the only countries with a "king" (emirs in this case, and there are 7 actually), president, and vice president.
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Heheh cool to know my mobile app idea is startin up but Zofia had a genius idea in the main lobby wall
Psychologist -Maf sided Once per game, can give a cop or investigative role a fake system message, Messages will only be shown as fake to the person they are on. (For example, A journalist on cop; Cop has a maf report, whereas journalist has an entire different report). Same thing can work with tracker and so on, and ofc if cop isn't known on n1 maf could like guess who cop was and plant a fake report. (Super good idea!)
Uhh I know you already have a lot on ur list @admin but this is something i also wanted to bring up since coolkid already started it a little bit regarding the roles, so 2 things:
What i would add to coolkid's suggestion is to also have easier access to the description of what a roles does in closed role setups which is the go-to unranked setup (mostly in sandbox but it has also made its way into main now aka mainbox). 1) Maybe we can click on the blue box in the game for villager roles and hover each role to see their description similar in normal setups.
Right now we just link the roles page which can be tedious to look through which is another thing. 2) Can we get the roles sorted a little more? possibly alphabetically or functionality? (meeting maf vs non-meeting maf / appears as blue roles all together etc.). Right now I find it hard to look through especially when marking people's roles in game and finding hunter but then huntsman is not right beside it for some reason. etc.
A big problem for the website is that we lynch "noavis" non avatared players day 1 in unranked mostly sandbox where ppl often go wjen they are too new to play ranked or just wanna have a good time. This chases away a lot of newbies who just dint understand the mechanics of the website.
Why do we do this? Because a lot of trolls are noavis. They enter the game only to veggie or they are players who makes multiple of accounts to troll.
I recon you should either create some sort of mechanisim to stop trolls from doing this or create a tutorial lobby or sorts for new players. Thisll help for main too.
What would the tutorial have? 1) basics of how to tinker with your profile settings like adding an avatar 2) a mock game with bots to show how to vote at night and during the day. 3) a guide on how to access the forums and learn page 4) a run down of the site rules and what each means maybe even a page of mafia lingo with explinations.
Theyd have to go through this tutorial before entering the main site. I feel like thisll help newbies come in and be able to stay.
Maybe just make the app for red heart/unranked games, and save comp for cpu/mobile?.. if thats possible..i agree the app should be aimed at getting/keeping new players
Ok , the site is split into sections: Lobby, Player, Round, Fame, Learn, Forum.
The app will be way simpler since it will be alpha build :
The lobby section and only the mail lobby without the chat, announcments, featured setups , lobby wall etc. Just the games in the lobby.
Simple Player profiles when you click on your profile or someone elses.
remove round, fame and learn
Forums.
Roles will show what they do if you click on them.
Sorry to say this but for the app version, it should look nothing like the site. We are trying to appeal with simplicity and easy to pick up game and the site is far to advanced and complicated for new players. It wont work if you just make it the same as the site. It will imediately turn off players.
You should make a new topic for 'em mobile' ideas..I know a lot of people would probably want to help to make it as successful as possible,..and may miss out in this topic
EDIT: I agree with xxerox saying a mobile app would be extremely important to getting new members, seeing as todays kids are typically on their phones/app store rather than cpus
Hey, is there any way you can implement mentioning roles in veg messesages like you do in death messesages? So like it says Bob, the cop, died within seconds, it could also say Bob, the cop, has turned into a vegetable, instead of just Bob has turned into a vegetable.
so, before i sleep, going to drop an idea about the underworld, if the Medium goes as planned
perhaps we can have some role sided with the undead that lives in the graveyard meeting. they will pick someone in the living during the night, and if that person is not asleep (moving about), will get taken into the underworld and converted. they win if they get some percentage of the living players
Townsided Guiser (Swapper) - Learns the role of who he guises. Swaps places. - If guiser and Swapper chooses same target. Swapper swaps before guiser guises.
Crying Cop (Crying Cop) - Cop with the power to cry
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