I think I am going to start some newbie NV games to try and increase our numbers, and AceArtemis said something along similar lines, although I can't begin any before the end of next week as I have 3 uni exams next week

As I pointed out in the other thread we are stuggling to make 15 player games these days, when before we could get 30+. Two reasons for this:
1. Not enough new players.
2. The vets have gone.
For point number one I think we have to make the games more interesting and fast paced. As well as making the place more newbie friendly and advertising if we can.
The themes coming up these days are great and all but a lot of them are quite obscure, I say bring back some of the more well known ones even if they have been done before. People will prefer to play in games if they really enjoy the theme. Another thing is the modding, there are not many games these days with big plots, intresting storylines and lots of mod input, the mod has lost the stroy-teller dimension IMO. The last game like this was Batman and I can say it was the funnest game I have played in recent times, william I see you are posting any chance of giving us a game once a few have finished or filled up?
As for fast-paced; inactivity is at an all time high, and I think that no-lynches, slow starts and slow modding are doing damage here. I think some duel games could be fun, haven't seen too many games like this but it could add a new dimension to games. For those of you that don't know what it is, it's when instead of having to reach a majority for a lynch one person challenges another to a duel. Then the remaining players have 24 hours (or longer) to vote for which of the two players they want to be lynched, with no unvoting allowed. In the event of a tie the person who was challenged is lynched. Only problem is, no challenges=no lynches. An alternative is a dual duel game with both conventional lynches and duels alowed.
Now onto the vets, where have they all gone as will asked in the chuck thread? They trickled out one by one and are now as far as I can see are gone barring a few. Many are still on this site for one reason or another so I am guessing the reason they are gone is because the games are unintresting, I would like to try and rope in illy/ga7 to getting the old lot back for a vet game which would hopefully keep a couple coming back for more.
I don't know exactly but something needs to be done before we are left with no games and if that happens I would see no reason other than the footy game to ever come back to this site. I thought nate was doing us some good bringing in people from other parts of the forums and starting the hall of fame idea etc. But now his games have become part of the problem.
Any ideas people?