SUGGESTION: Immunity and Penalty Votes

[Mei Yun]

It is annoying when I feel like people use Immunity as an excuse to not do the other required things asked of them during the episode. They feel safe just because the have immunity so they would forgo voting at Exile, or doing activities, or posting conversations, which kind of circumvents the real purpose of having Immunity per se.

In the Biggest Loser, people compete to lose weight, and whoever loses the most weight wins. In some cases, immunity is handed out to one person, and that person forgo losing pounds for that round (sometimes gaining weight) just so they can lose more pounds the next round, or they can skip losing pounds for that round.

To prevent that, the producers added one hitch: if a person gets Immunity, then that person has to lose at least one pound.

I think the same thing should apply in this game: if a person receives Immunity, and if they receive penalty votes, then they will not receive Immunity and could be voted for. With the same deadline for votes and conversations/confessionals/activities, I am not sure how it should be implemented. However, I feel that there should be a means to prevent people from using their Immunity to skip their responsibilities in the game.

[Judge Sam]

that is a good idea but the thing is no one will vote for the immune person anyway since i wouldn't be able to "un-immune" them until voting was already over you know? so they would have to just guess or something if that person didn't vote or didn't post conversations and that's a little silly.

i like the idea though.

[Mei Yun]

How about having the penalty votes apply the next Episode?

[Judge Sam]

that might work better! I've never had penalty votes from one episode carry over into the next, however this round w/ forum mafia I am trying it so let's see how that goes. =)

however, while I do agree with you with the Immunity from Exile thing, that's such a low % of times that actually happens... even if it is 1 person every episode that's still like 1/20th of the players ya know?

And I think Mirela was away for 2-3 days before Exile I don't think she did it on purpose lol.

[Mei Yun]

Jun 18, 2009 12:06:21 GMT -5 Judge Sam said:

And I think Mirela was away for 2-3 days before Exile I don't think she did it on purpose lol.

Mirela was a coincidence. I was going to make this post whether or not it happened LOL. The immunity thing and Mirela being "under the radar" reminded me of Jordan/Brooks and a few others whose names I cannot remember right now (gotta get breakfast).

I think it's just a simple rules clause similar to why Accusations are in effect. Accusation votes rarely factor into a game (it is still amazing how big and -- at the same time -- how small the online Mafia world is), but we need them just to keep people in check.

Anyway, I'll stop here. :-p

[Mei Yun]

Sam I forgot to add this in my answer to your survey thingy.