Problem with monetizing with the chicken and the egg scenario

Won’t work. I explain why above!

They wouldn’t be forced though as they could escape the npc

Not possible due to server-client latency, anyways. Plus, events woldn’t be custom and they wouldn’t interact with players.

If you can keep people in your game you could just spend more robux on advertising in a short period

The minimum advertising window time length is 24 hours.

That would be fine if people stay in your game and you have a large enough budget. You could also be a staff for a few hours so people can do stuff

Yeah, but to retain a player count I’d need at least 1 staff member working 24/7

You could see who can be trusted when you are on and get your friends or family to help

I don’t have much family or friends, but there’s a resume process.

There is a resume process for what?

For becoming a staff member in the game.

I don’t know what you mean when you say resume but you could have a game pass to become staff and a vote kick feature

Résumé - Wikipedia Also called an application

Ok sorry I am from England, you could give staff to the first few people on a server for just that visit to get you started

Staff have the power to trap and kill players. Unfortunately, this is not a practical option.

Not even with vote kick or you could not have those permissions on those players

Staff can’t kick, only mods can.

Make script so staff can be vote kicked

That could easily be abused, plus this is no longer even related to my original question. Thanks for your feedback, though.

Why not have a round-based scenario where players are randomly assigned to the position of staff/villager/cursed, and then after a few day/night cycles, the roles are randomly swapped again. As the game currently stands, it doesn’t sound like this would be feasible, but if you are willing to give up some of the staff’s powers in exchange for a game that wouldn’t rely completely on having trusted members of the staff (and even if they do abuse, their roles will switch at some point during the game), then I’d say this is the best bet.