Lambdadelta's Suggestions {Mode Settings, New Roles, etc.}

Eh. I'll be honest, I dislike this idea. The cons outweigh any pros, especially since in my opinion 2/3 of the pros you listed ARE cons.

More Umineko in Umineko Mode isn't always necessarily a good thing, since I think we should keep it pretty open-ended in many regards. We don't need to keep adding more and more things from Umineko's plot that'll just confuse someone unfamiliar with Umineko even more. People already have a hard enough time following the purpose of the "Truths", and slapping a sudden post-game banquet onto everything would be pretty jarring to those people. Plus, as has been pointed out, we shouldn't let the Witch be too much like Beatrice specifically. The witch should be as "generic" as can be, frankly. Not to mention, this much effort into such a feature would seem like too much bias towards Umineko Mode. I love Umineko, and I'm sure this will be my favorite mode forever, but Death Note Mode should be getting equal treatment in terms of how it's set up and played out.

Not seeing how the game ends exactly is more of a plus, in my opinion. It gives a lot of mystery to the fate of the survivors if the witch happens to be alive. After all, even in Umineko itself, the very final moments of some of the episodes are left ambiguous. That's intentional, and it works well with Mitadake/Pyrce/Mystery High's round system.

The first con you listed is the strongest component that breaks this idea. For one, there's NO way to confirm who's on the witch's side and who isn't. It's easy to just lie and click that you believed in the witch or vice versa. A game mechanic should never be dependent on something like that. Additionally, something like your idea could easily be done without implementing a specific feature for it. How? Easy, through pure RP. Just set the game's time limit to longer hours, and once things are "settled" as far as the witch goes, they can hold an event like this ICly if they want. Mind you, I still don't even think a banquet would usually add that much anyway, but sometimes it could, so I guess someone could do this if they really wanted. Really, the fact that so much of your idea depends on how people RP is the biggest problem. For that reason, it shouldn't be a feature, and should just be pure RP. Hell, someone could probably make a custom map with a normally impossible to enter banquet room that only the witch can access to do this idea exactly.

Ah, that sounds better.

Sounds feasible, however, it is one of the things that I think at least might end up not on the top of the list, as it isn't a basic/core feature.  But, it's up to Frosty to decide if and when features will make it in, so you never know.  I think it is pretty interesting.  The only downsides may be that it is time consuming and made even worse with bad RP co-operation.

I'm late to this party, but personally I'm still liking the idea of the Voyager witch. An interesting role to say the least, given she could spend her entire round not even revealing what she was. Maybe add some dynamic to it by the fact the original!witch is trying to find her/him as part of that role?