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I realize that the last few games haven't "felt right". It feels "same-old, same-old". And god forbid that it might be labeled BORING. surprised

Many people have laid out the same basic points:
~It's getting old and repetitive, yet people complain about game changes.
~Everyone knows each other.
~No one can agree on rules.
~Sheeping is a problem.

After looking at those, I realized something. Nothing is wrong with the game itself. It's almost a year old (which I'll talk about later), and it still exists. That's a lot to say for something like this. The problem lies with the PEOPLE. We see the same faces, over and over. That's where the redundancy starts. If we can do something about THIS problem, maybe we won't have to change the game and be drama llamas. dramallama

So, if the people are the problem, what is the solution? Get new people, of course! biggrin

Basically, I'm proposing a mass-advertising campaign. With our 500x500 signatures, we would flood the GCD. Please note that I am not talking about SPAM. mad D SPAM IS BAD IN THE GCD. All of you are big kids; you know how to follow rules and discuss. With the massive amount of linked signature ads, many GCDers are sure to click them. We would post in every thread, with our SUSPICIOUS discussion skills. Heck, we could even go to the GD. But they don't like links there. ninja

For this to properly work, though, we would have to be ready. We wouldn't put the ads in our signatures until we were. In order to be ready, we have to have a GM. We have to pull our act together, grow up, and ACT like we know how to be civil. We need to organize. In case you were unaware, the game becomes a year old on February 1st.

In order to "organize", I recommend:
~Not changing the game until we see how this works
~Spamming a little less in the Sniped D, and making more topics that have points. (I don't have anything against the pointless topics, but the newcomers might. <3)
~Making pretty signature advertisements. I made THIS recently. ;D
~I posted this in a different thread:
~Read this thread. I'm not sure if it looks familiar or not, but it's a great way to see how the game started. ;D Read through game ONE. That was before anyone knew each other. Back then, everything wasn't nearly as serious. If we can emulate that and get back into that mindset, the game would likely be a lot more fun. Seriously. Bring back the white text! Bring back "SUSPICIOUS!" and "OR IS IT?" Go on, make alliances!
~Slow down, tiger. ;D As I stated before, the SG's birthday is in less than a month. Wouldn't it be great to have an anniversary game? Let it be one of memories and fun, yet leaving room for new beginnings. We'll get lots of new people, and we can get into the suspicious spirit! Lawlz white text. ;D If you read this, you should feel special <3 ILU.
Cadet Particle summed up the necessary mentality PERFECTLY.

Coding for sig banners go here.

What WHOULD be awsome is if we got the featured guild spotlight. Although it would come with problems too, we'd get alot of new people (I hope). But mass advertising would be fun!

There's still one major problem that I see happening. New players are likely to be impressionable and will most likely pick up on our habits. We already know about the nasty habit of 'sheepvoting'; we'll need to curb that or else the new guys will follow suit.

3nodding I'll add that to the list.
If they don't know about it, they won't pick it up.

That's the weird part. They don't know about it initially, but they eventually do pick it up somehow. If they see a lot of people voting for a single player, they'll probably do the same thing. Old players sheepvote out of laziness or for the sake of convenience. New players most likely do it because they either want to fit in or because they believe that everyone is convinced that said player is one of the killers. I should know, because that was my mentality when I first joined xd .

Also, it would be nice if we could find a way to get everyone (not just new players) to be more active. A lot of people tend to just only post when they vote and then disappear. I have no idea how to fix that, though. sweatdrop

xd I know.

And I'm not sure how to fix the problem of people going inactive. It's always been there, even in Game one. People join, then forget or have other things to do, like IRL stuff.