Originally Posted by
Righteous
My best advice to Town of Salem devs is controversial, but never the less what I think is for the best.
Please DO NOT listen to feedback from long time members of this community!!
Make your own game(!), start your own forum, and start collecting fresh feedback from those who are genuinely interested in this new game, and it's success! ...I beg you!
You will quickly notice that too many people here come from a Forum Mafia, or even EpicMafia backgrounds, OR some have been in SC2 Mafia from the very beginning, but gradually stopped playing as the game expanded and started to become unfamiliar.
Secondly, this game and forum is run with a 'Pay to Say' principle. People with good suggestions are asked to pay("donate") for privileges to express their suggestions in a VIP forum, or they wont be heard. Payed users are elitist and ignorant towards new users and their feedback (EDIT: See the guy who replied me, I rest my case).
Just go and read some of the game suggestions on this forum and see how poorly everything is received. You will quickly realize how unfriendly and un-constructive this forum is. You will see no progress here. It's no coincidence that after months of development, one of the first roles to be added in a long awaited update, is the Stump, a role for the admins to troll those who haven't payed ("donated").
If you eat too much of the their feedback (the same ideology that has been preached around here for the last couple of years), then you'll quickly end up with a dumbed down slow-mo game like EpicMafia, with 3Citizen, 1 Sherif, 1 Doctor and 2 Mafioso's and last can last 40+minutes, because 3 clueless people can't decide who of the them unchecked, sounds least trustworthy.
This is not what you want!
You want to make mafia cool, new, fresh, smart, fast and accessible! Reinvent the classic mafia game for the 21st century!
Let people play with their friends without SC2.
Let people experience the core concept of lies and deceive, for the sole purpose of having fun.
I would even go so far as to not try to familiarize it with "Mafia" at all:
What about a small town with Bandits (instead of mafia)?
What's wrong with a werewolf role?
Make a new universe for your game!
I repeat, don't take this place too seriously. If you feel something is simply not fun, don't add it to the game, or change it, or come up with something new. Watch yourself around here!
I do however have faith in ToS and Dark.Revenant being on the project.
The consequences of his occasional absence from this forum, only goes to show how important he is for the health of this game.
Peace out!