Mafia.gg celebrates four years!

> We can hardly believe that 4 years ago Mafia.gg went live for all to play. We have invested a lot into making this site a reality, and it feels quite surreal to be celebrating 4 years! But let’s be honest - the best part about this site has been making it for you. To thank you, we’ve cooked up a special community event, so make sure you join the Community Discord!
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> Without further ado, let’s get this party poppin’! 🎉
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## Roles Added

### Town-aligned Roles

(Random On-Condemn Villager), Bus Cop, Decoy, Veterinarian

### Mafia-aligned Roles

(Random Balanced Meeting Mafia), Dentist, Grandparent, Reaper, Tank, Ticketmaster

### Third-party Roles

(Random Non-Scum Third Party), Stray Kitten

**"Mafia.gg celebrates four years!"** was the Mafia.gg update delivered on February 16, 2023. The update added 12 new roles, a couple of features, changes to roles and ready checks, several bugfixes, and new FAQ posts. Prior to the update, a Role Poll took place. Subsequent to the update, a Community Create-a-Role Event took place.

## New Roles

The "Mafia.gg celebrates four years!" update added 12 new roles to the game: 4 Town-aligned, 6 Mafia-aligned, and 2 Third-party. The roles are listed below in alphabetical order:

* (Random Balanced Meeting Mafia)
* (Random On-Condemn Villager)
* (Random Non-Scum Third Party)
* Bus Cop
* Decoy
* Dentist
* Grandparent (Role Poll winner)
* Reaper
* Stray Kitten
* Tank
* Ticketmaster (designed by the community during the Community Create-a-Role Event)
* Veterinarian

Most of the community enjoyed the roles added in this update, and many players were happy to see new Random roles being added. No Random roles had been added previously since their debut during "Our Long-awaited Summertime Update."

### Role Poll

This update's Role Poll results were announced on February 13, 2023. The following three roles were candidates to be added to the site:

1. Grandparent | Mafia
Can only be killed by being condemned
Learns the name and role of any player that visits them
Does not attend the Mafia night meeting
(received 14 votes)
2. Lazy Cop | Town
Sees self as Cop and appears as Cop upon death
Each night, may choose a player to visit and investigate
Receives a report the next day detailing if the player is sided with the Mafia
Reports will appear "sided with the Mafia", regardless of the player's actual alignment, if the player visited anybody that night
(received 10 votes)
3. Surgeon | Town
Each night, may visit and protect a player from a night kill
Protected player is prevented from conversions
(received 6 votes)

Ultimately, since Grandparent received the most votes, it was added to the site when the update launched.

### Community Create-a-Role Event

This Community Create-a-Role Event was the site's first and was hosted on Twitch. It took place on Friday, February 17th at 5 PM EST. Together, the community workshopped many roles, finally deciding on Ticketmaster to be added to the game. Ticketmaster was not added with the other roles when the update was released; rather, it was added after the Community Create-a-Role Event, around 8:30 PM EST.

## Features

Two main features were added during this update:

1. holiday-themed Event Roles "that will appear for a limited time"
2. the ability to use the role tag search function to exclude specific role tags from search results rather than include them

The event roles added during the time of this update were Bolthus and Moko. Previous April Fool's Roles had their descriptions made available (they were previously inaccessible), and have been classified as event roles.

## Changes and Rebalancing

Many mafia-aligned roles that cannot visit members of the Mafia faction now explicitly state so in their role description.

Many town-aligned roles whose powers revolve around mafia-aligned players (such as Mason and Seer) now reference Liaison in their role descriptions. This also clarifies that mafia-aligned players part of the Liaison faction are also affected by their abilities.

Ready checks no longer cancel when a player leaves a room, something that annoyed players and hosts alike.

## Bugfixes

Previously, if you were roleblocked on the same night you used a wish, it would waste the wish. This is no longer the case.

Bishop formerly did not find Bouncer and Security Guard guilty of sloth. This has been fixed.

Several bugs linked to Sharpshooter have been fixed, including a bug that caused the day to end if a Sharpshooter shot another Sharpshooter.

Many role descriptions have also been updated for consistency.

## Other Update Components

A new FAQ post was added about event roles. One was also added to help differentiate between alignments and factions.

## Trivia

* During "Our Long-awaited Summertime Update," Random roles were listed separately from the other roles added. However, in this update, the roles were all listed together.
* This was the first update to feature a Community Create-a-Role Event and the third to feature a Role Poll.
* This was the second anniversary update in a row where exactly half of the new roles were Mafia-aligned.