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- makes it easier for griefer to avoid curse (run away + drop dead behind tree)

I think that plan was that you can curse somebody up to an hour after his death.

Doesn't seem so:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo

Pain

Placebos are believed to be capable of altering a person's perception of pain. "A person might reinterpret a sharp pain as uncomfortable tingling."[8]

One way in which the magnitude of placebo analgesia can be measured is by conducting "open/hidden" studies, in which some patients receive an analgesic and are informed that they will be receiving it (open), while others are administered the same drug without their knowledge (hidden). Such studies have found that analgesics are considerably more effective when the patient knows they are receiving them.[23]

Depression
[...]
Another meta-analysis found that 79% of depressed patients receiving placebo remained well (for 12 weeks after an initial 6–8 weeks of successful therapy) compared to 93% of those receiving antidepressants. In the continuation phase however, patients on placebo relapsed significantly more often than patients on antidepressants.[27]

Negative effects
See also: Nocebo
[...]
Withdrawal symptoms can also occur after placebo treatment. This was found, for example, after the discontinuation of the Women's Health Initiative study of hormone replacement therapy for menopause. Women had been on placebo for an average of 5.7 years. Moderate or severe withdrawal symptoms were reported by 4.8% of those on placebo compared to 21.3% of those on hormone replacement.[33]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo

Pain:
Verbal suggestion can cause hyperalgesia (increased sensitivity to pain) and allodynia (perception of a tactile stimulus as painful) as a result of the nocebo effect.[17] Nocebo hyperalgesia is believed to involve the activation of cholecystokinin receptors.[18]

Anthropological usage:
Some people maintain that belief kills (e.g., "voodoo death": Cannon (1942) describes a number of instances from a variety of different cultures) and belief heals (e.g., faith healing). A "self-willed" death (due to voodoo hex, evil eye, pointing the bone procedure,[21] etc.) is an extreme form of a culture-specific syndrome or mass psychogenic illness that produces a particular form of psychosomatic or psychophysiological disorder which results in a psychogenic death.
[...]
Writing from his extensive experience of treating cancer (including more than 1,000 melanoma cases) at Sydney Hospital, Milton (1973) warned of the impact of the delivery of a prognosis, and how many of his patients, upon receiving their prognosis, simply turned their face to the wall and died a premature death: "there is a small group of patients in whom the realization of impending death is a blow so terrible that they are quite unable to adjust to it, and they die rapidly before the malignancy seems to have developed enough to cause death. This problem of self-willed death is in some ways analogous to the death produced in primitive peoples by witchcraft ('pointing the bone')" (p. 1435).

I think nobody will object to pink text on neon-green.

<3 People like you make this game fun

I'm kinda late to this thread, but I just want to nominate this as best answer ever.  Now he needs to shut up or ask for refund and be gone from the game. Win-win

Small nitpick after rereading Jason's proposal: it's the other way around.  You gain one curse point per 2 hours, but it decays at faster rate of 1 point per hour.  So with 10:1 non-griefer to griefer ratio, we need curse to be used properly in 20% of cases to stop serial griefer. But it's still low bar IMO.

15 "good guys" in town have collectively 15 curse tokens every 2 hours.

But it's already there.  Bad guy has 1 curse token every 2 hours, good guys in town have collectively 15 curse tokens every 2 hours.

<3

You have full minute to relay this information to townfolks.  If you're willingly going to middle of nowhere with someone having weapon in his backpack, then well... it may hurt you IRL too.

- Doctor, it hurts when I do it.
- Then just don't do it.

We can add exponential punishment later on.  But first I'd like to see how it works without it.