I'm in Thailand right now posting this from my iPad:
spiresquire I think that it's good that you are and were being active. I think being active is much more beneficial rather than signing up and sitting around. At least if you make mistakes you are called out for it and you can learn from them. As long as you actually
learn or make an attempt to, you will be able to be more likely to identify that down the road and prevent yourself from screwing up again.
In regards to game structure, this wasn't a beginner game. I just used that prefix because there were no prefixes for big games.
I also think that the neutral wc we used was not hard after seeing it in action. In theory, it could have been difficult to pull off, and even then there are things I could have done to make it tougher. We just didn't know for sure what to expect since it wasn't a clear-cut win condition like in most games as there were a lot of variables that could make it work or fail. Also DLE and I were fully prepared to see people upset at the win condition since it isn't a normal thing in mafia games.
That's what made it fun for us I think, as hosts. You could say this was a little experiment we put together and we tested out a role that was a variable. The other factions were our constant, and if things worked the way we hypothesized, either the neutrals would come out being super op or they would easily be weak.
Anyways that's a short summary of my thoughts. I plan on typing out more for the actual post game when I come back from Thailand. I know this game had a lot of ups and downs, but I hope everyone had a tiny bit of fun. Even if it was only a minute amount, it is something I strive towards.