Mayor and Godfather change suggestions

[D/D/Dexter]

So my friend and I had some interesting ideas regarding possible changes to the function of these two roles and I'd be interested to hear what people think (and if anyone knows if there is an official means of making recomendations to the devs)

Godfather: For starters the GF can NEVER kill anyone himself (wouldn't get his hands dirty). Usual rules apply that there isn't always a GF, but instead there is ALWAYS a mafioso if there is a mafia at all, and only the mafioso can kill. In regular games with a GF when the mafioso dies, another mafia member is randomly promoted, instead this promotion would happen the following night as opposed to the morning right after the ex-mafioso dies, this is to allow a day windwo for the GF to use a daytime ability to manually choose the next mafioso from his remaining members. This gives the GF some more control and authority, but if he's afk or just being an arse and won't choose, the game chooses randomly come night anyway. The major difference is that when there are no other mafia left to promote, the GF is given a special night time ability to target any other play and 'make them an offer they can't refuse', if that player is town or some neutral roles (like survor witch) then they get forcibly converted to the mafia as the new mafioso, this adds a sense of urgency around finding the GF early (cut off the head and all that). However if the GF tries to convert certain killing roles like SK, Vamp, etc, then he gets killed like an escort visiting a SK would, so it's a desperate gamble.

Mayor: So I always found the concept of the Mayor a bit silly, like what does it mean they 'revealed' themselves? But then I thought of a way this could make sense. So imagine during the game set up, after everybody puts in their name but before their role is selected, there is another stage (only 30 odd seconds long) where everybody gets to vote for a player (anyone but themselves) to be Mayor. The player who gets the majority of votes becomes the Mayor for that game, however nobody but the winner finds out the results until the Mayor reveals themselves, after which they function as normal. There would be no guarantee that a Mayor will be in a game, as if more than (let's say) half of the players abstain, then nobody becomes the Mayor regardless of who got the majority, similarly if there is a tie for first place, then nobody becomes Mayor. This way for Any All games, it's never certain if the Mayor role will be present or not. Obviously if a player becoems Mayor they just skip the role select stage.

Anyway those are my suggested changes, I also had ideas for a few new roles like Necromancer (basically an evil version of the Ret), a Priest (town role who counters unholy roles like witches, vamps and Necromancers (if they were made)), and a Stalker (a town role who is essentially the opposite of the Lookout, where he sees who all his target visits, as opposed to who visits his target).

[KaszkaManna]

Due to mafias communication advantage Mayor would be almost always mafia member.
Bad idea.
GF is alredy powerful, giving him literally vamp abilities wouldn't do well.
But I think GF need rework anyway.

[D/D/Dexter]

Originally posted by AnusIsRael:

Due to mafias communication advantage Mayor would be almost always mafia member.
Bad idea.
GF is alredy powerful, giving him literally vamp abilities wouldn't do well.
But I think GF need rework anyway.

You clearly didn't understand what I said at all. The Mayor is voted BEFORE the roles are selected, before the game even starts, so the person who wins does not get given another role, they are the Mayor just as if they had got it on the wheel, so you couldn't have a mafia Mayor.
Secondly the 'offer they can't refuse' ability is a last chance thing when only the GF is left to add some extra tension to the game, and it is nerfing the GF because as it stands he is yet another immune killer like the SK, arso and WW, but with the ability to coordinate directly with a team, taking away his ability to kill and making him a purely supervisory role is a big nerf