L.A. Confidential is not some kind of breakthrough strategy, get over it.
You are terrible at playing any game higher than Castings, and that's because it takes more effort to play Rookies than Castings. By the time you reach this stage, things get serious.
You aren't playing some kind of amazing strategy, you've made an alliance, and more than that, you're trying to start up a group so you can have a pre-made alliance for every Castings game.
Being 'Loyal, Active, and Confidential' is not a huge thing. It's practically impossible to have any kind of other strategy. The players that are more sociable appear to be more active than the others, and they usually sweep the board with a bunch of POVs. Being confidential with information is unavoidable in Castings, because there is an incredible lack of strategy.
Your entire strategy is flawed, and being so obvious with your pre-made alliances, and having an easily accessible blog that announces to the world that you have a four person alliance gives people 7 rounds warning to get you out.
I think there should be a system to speed up games.
Perhaps there should be a turbo option for games, which removes inactive players from games. This could be done by removing someone who doesn't cast a vote in the first round, or disappears before the first round. That would allow players to host a quick game.
Maybe in a single sitting game, it would be possible to remove someone who disappears for longer than ten minutes.
However, if someone fails to vote for the first two or three rounds, they should be removed from any game.
Maybe I'm the only one who thinks this, and after all I've only played in one game so far, but my experience so far has been filled with long breaks between each vote.
