Retired

This page includes all of the retired roles and alignments in Wiki Mafia. They are no longer in use for Wiki Mafia episodes.

These roles and alignments have been retired for various reasons. The reasons behind their retirements can be found below the table.

## Reasons for Retirement

The Blackmailer has been retired due to its sheer power. Due to the text-based format that Wiki Mafia is played in, a blackmailed player would be unable to speak for a few real-time days, depending on the length of the day in-game. Tracking activity would be difficult, as a player couldn't speak in the game thread while blackmailed. Additionally, keeping a player from responding in a thread for a few days would be difficult as well.

The Drunk Driver has been retired due to its sheer power. Its mechanics give it a kill-per-night ratio of 1.5, which is a severe problem. Considerations were given, and its mechanics were added as a buff to the Werewolf. After some time, however, the Werewolf was overhauled once again, moving away from having the Drunk Driver's mechanics.

The Electrician has been retired due to the fact that is very similar to the Detonator. Considerations were given, and the decision was made to add the Electrician's mechanics to the Detonator.

The Enforcer has been retired due to its inability to be useful. There is little benefit in copying an ability onto another non-Mafia, as the Enforcer doesn't receive results of investigative abilities it copies, it gives any copied protective abilities to a non-Mafia player, and it just allows other roles to end up affecting a second player instead of just one. This role doesn't particularly help the Mafia in any way, and doesn't particularly hurt anyone else either.

The Fisherman has been retired because it is an extremely confirmable role. It is very hard for evils to fakeclaim, and it is a very situational role in and of itself. It can also be too dangerous to Town roles because it has an all-or-nothing approach; it either kills all of its targets or none of them. After consideration from the community, it was decided that the role should be retired.

The Forger has been retired because, in comparison to the Janitor, it is not and cannot be as useful in any way.

The Goon has been retired due to its inability to be useful. Simply put, the Mafia faction does not need its own Citizen-type role. If this role stayed in the game, it would not compare to the other Mafia roles in the game, as its only ability is to perform the factional Mafia kill.

The Hustler has been retired due to its inability to be useful. It can be useful in some situations, but overall, it is hard to target people that would be hindered by any actions at all other than being roleblocked or controlled.

The Hypnotist has been retired due to its inability to be useful. While it can be somewhat nice to have in a game, it is nowhere near as useful as a Musician or Consort could be.

The Insomniac has been retired due to its difficult gameplay. It is mostly just a reverse Survivor with less interesting mechanics and a harder goal. Comparatively, the Lost Spirit is a much better role.

The Interviewer has been retired due to its sheer power. While the role itself is normally fine, there are too many roles in Wiki Mafia, and limiting evil claimspace is never good.

The Kleptomaniac has been retired due to its inability to be useful. Because of its limitations as to what roles it can steal from, it doesn't have enough of an impact on the game as a Neutral Evil role to help other evils, or hurt the Town as much as other Neutral Evil roles can.

The Mafia Goon alignment has been retired because the only role in its alignment was the Goon, which has been retired as well.

The Mafia Killing alignment has been retired because two of the three roles in its alignment, the Ninja and the Underboss, have also been retired, leaving the Ambusher as the sole Mafia Killing role. The Ambusher has been moved to Mafia Head, as it does not fit in the other two Mafia alignments.

The Milkman has been retired due to how situational it is. It only really has any use if certain other roles are in the game. Otherwise, it has very little impact on the game.

The Mystic has been retired due to its sheer power. Most of the time, there is very little use in players talking to each other privately during the night, and can often only confirm Town roles further.

The Ninja has been retired due to its sheer power. Town Protective roles are completely useless against it, and the Ambusher serves the purpose of this role in a better, more balanced way.

The Paradoxist has been retired because it's goal is very hard to complete and depends a lot on luck and chance instead of skill.

The Prankster has been retired because the Lost Spirit was changed to have very similar mechanics. The Lost Spirit is a better role overall, so the Prankster has been removed.

The Paranormalist has been retired due to its inability to be useful. It is not as useful as the rest of the Neutral Evil roles, but is also difficult to implement as a Neutral Chaos role.

The Rain Dancer has been retired due to its inability to be useful. The role was made to be in games that have Citizens in them, and the Citizen itself is not really used that much. This pretty much makes the Rain Dancer obsolete.

The Ranger has been retired because it's a hard role to understand and difficult to play effectively.

The Shade has been retired due to its difficult gameplay. It defeats the purpose of a Neutral Benign, as it is often forced to target the non-Town factions that do most of the killing. Comparing the Shade and its counterpart, the Phantom, the two roles have the same abilities and attributes, but with a different goal. The Shade's goal is much more based on chance than skill, as its haunt ability can't do much to help make the killer lose.

The Slaughterer has been retired due to how complicated it is to understand. While that's not much of a reason to remove it entirely, we want to keep roles fairly simple, or at least somewhat understandable. However, even with a thorough explanation, it is still a hard role to understand, and is therefore cause for its removal.

The Underboss has been retired due to the fact that is simply unnecessary. There would be no reason for a Town member to talk one-on-one with a Mafia member, and there would be no reason for the Underboss to not execute their prisoner, unless they were a role that could side with the Mafia, which would most often not be the case.

The Visionary has been retired due to its inability to be useful. It was added as a replacement for the Medium, but, overall, it cannot compare well to the other Town Investigative roles.