Also people who dont post (anything usefull) are kind of a -2 (if town) for town, since often a lynch has to be wasted on them, leading to another nk. Subbing in espi makes up for one noposter, but people like ian pretty much require an inforole to contribute.
Obv we are a casual community when it comes to mafia, so just banning people that often dont end up contributing is not the way to go. But maybe we can somehow adjust the rules such that its easier to contribute when you have no clue how the game works and that somehow make it easier to deal with inactives (dedicated subslots or faster modkills are the usual solutions, but necessarily make the player pool smaller).
Most mafias are daystart btw to circumvent the "killed before you could do anything"-problem, but we need the nightstart since here many people dont know to do anything at all until there are some hard facts.
Also it seems like even in the games that do get solved all the action comes lategame. It is kind of an inherent problem to mafia, but i think in this community its much more pronounced than in others. Perhaps its because it takes longer here for the average player to post enough to be evaluated fairly.
Btw Link, what was it with you going so hard after your teammates this game? These were perfect circumstances to powerwolf (inactive town plus extravoting power for your side).