Leaving EM
As many of you might know by now, I'm leaving EM. Tomorrow will be my last day playing, for those who might want to play with me.
As for the reasons, there's not just one, it's several, from trolls, gt accounts, bad modding (you've seen various examples lately, also here on the forums) and I decided I won't stand all of it anymore.
Before leaving, I'll leave the current mod/admin team some tips and suggestions (on different topics):
Quoting what Giga said in another discussion: "In terms of lobbies things are fine right now, imo. There are currently not enough users active on a regular basis for more than one lobby to thrive. Splitting Main Lobby would probably just make both of the new lobbies less populated and make it harder to get frequent games going.
I think expanding the mentor program and getting people to join it (maybe through some type of incentive for mentors and mentees) might be a good way to get people to try playing mafia more again. It helps new users try and get better and may get them to enjoy playing the game more.
Fixing problems like excessive hateful comments and harassment by adding harsher penalties, especially in red heart or unranked games where most newer players play, might get people to stop shying away from mafia games or Epicmafia in general, as sometimes toxicity causes people to not want to play--especially new people. Imagine coming to a new games website only for people to be extremely rude to you in the first few games. Why would you want to come back?
I don't have much to say right now, but these are just a couple of ideas. I love the community giving their ideas, it's wonderful to see and to have a good discussion about site happenings."
Unfortunately, I have to agree with Giga on (all of) this.
Some things that could help the site to improve (in different ways) imho:
Fixing problems like excessive hateful comments and harassment by adding harsher penalties, especially in red heart or unranked games where most newer players play,
Rewriting (IN A CLEAR WAY) all the rules, separating them and defining the key terms (for ex. hipfiring, which isn't defined yet, in the rules)
Create an introduction for new players so that when they first login on EM, they know what they have to do, where to go (play 5 unranked games, that those are to "train" for ranked, what are the basic roles, where to find more info about roles /learn tab, etc)
Bring the Wiki back? I have a link to an archive on the old Wiki, if you do want to bring it back, I could pm JonSnow the link and you could start from there.
Potentiate the Mentor/Mentee program, make it more visible (not only on the forums, new players don't browse them) and put a limit to mentees per mentor (3? 5? no more)
When you have (in the future) enough players to do so, separate lobbies again. Training (the actual Main) for Unranked and Red Hearts and Competitive for the Competition and make the system competitive again.
If I come up with more before leaving EM, I'll edit the post.
I really hope EM improves in the future, but there are no clues of it.
I've had a good game in my 5 years here, it was well played. I'll miss this place, I don't doubt it, and I'll miss many of the friends I made here, but I won't come back.
Bye, Guy
