The Syndicate

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!

DFaraday wrote:It feels like the Syndicate has slowed to a crawl lately, and I can't help but wonder whether this is part of a typical cycle or if something is happening to make members fall away. Does anyone know whether the Syndicate is typically slower in the summertime? I've been here previous summers, but I don't remember. And what time of year is optimal for Mafia?

I would call it part of a normal cycle.

2 summers ago, MP hosted Fight Club mafia around this time (mid to late July) which had a vast number of players modkilled for inactivity. But Fight Club was followed up in August by Monty Python and Dr. Who mafia, two active games, including at the time a record number of posts of 7.3k in Dr. Who.

Last summer, llama hosted Frisky Dingo around this time (again, mid to late July). He had to reduce the number of roles down to 21 to get players to play, and it was a very quiet game. But it was followed up in August by Recruitment Mafia, which brought some players out of the woodworks, and managed a whopping 6.8k posts.



I think it's too early to worry. The difference here is that we have a very large game in the queue (by our standards), so based on the above pattern, it's just not going to be easy to fill up at this time. I imagine things will pick up again in about two weeks or so.