The Syndicate

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Quin wrote:What you need to do is find a whole bunch of people with no social lives to distract them from mafia (like myself) and cram them all into a game. Problem solved.

How to meet people with no social lives when they won't come out and socialize.

MP should hack the database of Introverts Anonymous, get a good long list of names and addresses, then mail a Syndicate business card to each and every one of them. It's genius!

If only I could hack...

Quin wrote:What you need to do is find a whole bunch of people with no social lives to distract them from mafia (like myself) and cram them all into a game. Problem solved.

Genius! I wish I had thought of that.

DharmaHelper wrote:I retired before it was cool

You trend-setter you. :P

Leave it to MM to bring the facts to the table. Thanks for that! And you're right, I did have quite a bit of inactivity in Fight Club even though I managed to fill it to the mid-high 30s in terms of player number. I was pretty ruthless in that game with respect to activity though. And it was pretty unconventional.

But you're right! And Frisky Dingo is a good example as well, I forgot about how sluggish the site seemed around that time too.

With the way so many mafia communities come and go, even though we seem slow right now, we still have a lot to be proud of with respect to the activity and solid member base we've built here. Thingyman has even told me such.

All of that said, it doesn't hurt for us to try to proactively pump the life back into this place as much as we can though, either by talking to regulars who aren't around here these days or siphoning in new blood.

It has been slow lately, and that seems to be attributable largely to the fact that the bulk of our regular members have different priorities RL for the time being, myself included unfortunately. Historically summers actually used to be the most active since many LPers and PAers were around high school and college years and had more downtime, whereas the slowest time always tended to be from Thanksgiving through New Year's due to holidays and such. We did lose some members in the summer temporarily due to summer vacation travelling, but overall I'd say that was the most active for a while; just off the top of my head (so I could be wrong, someone check me), I recall summer being the time we've seen some the larger games in terms of player number we've seen at the site (such as Bioshock and Fight Club, both my games). Of course, it depended on a member by member situation, but at least that's how I recall it being the first couple of years around here and back on The Piano and such. However, it seems that is no longer the case and most of our members may in fact be less apt to play in the summer due to travelling, being outside more, etc.

I'd love to try to get a bunch of regulars back and have been talking to some folks off and on, but still need to try to get in touch with folks more.