Hi guys. Nice to see that old CC Mafia forum is coming back to life. Last few times that I popped by to check how things are doing, I always found same three games active. I am glad that things are looking livelier now.
Concerning the topic of vet's departure, I guess it has to less to do with bannings/anti-administration sentiments and more to do with the fact that all of us CC Mafiosos have been spoiled during the CC Mafia Golden Age which begun (for me) with Autoload's Space Ship Mafia, begun to decline with Aimless' departure and ended when Talapus also left. The simple fact is that, despite the fact that they were and still are many great mods and players on CC, Aim and Tal were the only people who could almost guarantee a great game just by modding it or even by just participating in it. After they left, our collective efforts could be compared with the new SW trilogy: not bad, but far from the majesty of the old trilogy.
Then came the whole Wicked/Twill/Norse/whine/ban/leave affair, which caused many of the people to leave (myself included). But, the CC Mafia hasn't just been hurt by players leaving, it also suffered from many interesting posters (Wicked, Norse, Dancing Mustard etc.) leaving or being banned from the forums and it's a lot easier to keep a Mafia community active if the players are also provided with interesting discussion threads to post in while they are waiting for the other players to respond in the game thread. Back in the days, I loved to come here, post something in my game thread, check my Risk turns, then hit the Social Lounge and see what's going on and then come back to the Mafia forum to read the new posts. As the discussions became less imaginative, I started losing interest in Risk and, after Tal departed, in Mafia.
To conclude, if you really want to revive the CC Mafia, I suggest that you try and contribute more to the banter in the Social Lounge. Intelligent conversations attract intelligent new users, which can then be drugged, kidnapped and forced to play Mafia until they begin to like it
and eventually become good mafia players, or even good mods.
Or, as the wise farm animal said
:
sheepofdumb wrote:I'm actually up for it. I miss the glory days of mafia and off topic on this site. I need a site that still has the community we had here 2 years ago. When all was right in the world.
I know exactly what you mean, mate. The main reason why I keep coming to PoA is that great feeling of community: when you see familiar face (well avis anyway
) and you can speak freely with them. Our only real Mafia may not be a classic in making, but it does look like a step in the right direction (plus, playing with Wicked and Moz again feels like having traveled into the past
).
May the FOS be with you.
