Moderation/Accounts
#1 topic - some of the things that have went on here you would not be happy with (that could legally implicate you randomize) and by putting
in some sort of moderation to prevent that from happening is key to your site. I know you would retain a lot of users and bring back a lot of old
users by putting this in place. The problem with self moderation is people will undoubtedly find a way to wreck the system. E.x someone posts an offensive blog
that should be removed... you have to round up people to all report the blog so it gets deleted / user banned? If you don't like someone in theory you could just
round up enough people to get them banned or all their blogs deleted all the time. You need a third party to be responsible for this.
Also because you were gone from the site for so long a lot of people logged into each others accounts and with your multiple account checking some users have been
banned that weren't actually cheating and I don't think your intention would be to drive these users away from the site... We need you more present / add some moderation
with powers to unban to fix these issues as I don't think you want to lose users that don't actually have multiple accounts. This is a flaw to the system that
I think you will want to fix.
Cheating
You already said you are taking steps to stop from challenge cheating / multi use which is a good step. I don't think people should be permed for things that
happened when there was no checks and balances in place but there definitely should be consequences. Karma penalties is a good thing for sure but I think everyone's
main accounts shouldn't be banned because we don't need to lose even more users than we already have. Plus I think the people that USED multis/cheated will be targetted
in games now so they will kind of get what is coming to them anyways. The users that cheated I wouldn't want to see them off the site entirely personally you need
some villains on the site to keep things interesting.
Games
A new game would definitely bring excitement to the website. It would be nice if you would answer the requests about THE DUEL only because everyone is clearly curious about it.
It shows that the game is still somewhat coded in because it is on the enroll page so I think people think it would just be an easy game to add. Is it possible?!
Even if we got the Duel I think people would still love another new game. If you have one in the works great; if not maybe we can run a contest for people to
post their ideas and we can take the best one for your review??
I know a lot of people would love a survivor game that had a start and a finish with a jury (not continous merging) in addition to the merge cycles.
That would be so fun and potentially easy to code since you could use a lot of the coding from the game you currently do have.
Fastings
Reduce the time for each round (2-3 minutes for nominations is plenty) - the game is prone to inactive players and the game goes on way too long for the payouts. Increasing the payouts for 1st/2nd/3rd and maybe
adding a small payout for 4th/5th would be ideal as well.
Hunger Games
You mentioned you might add a second (or second and third cycle). That would be GREAT. I do think if you add a second cycle you should also increase the # of cycles you have to
wait by 2-3 games. Why? Because, it will allow people that do not usually get in due to fast clicking "race conditions" a chance to play and the big premades (which are fine to have) cannot be in every single cycle.
Since there would be a second cycle people wouldn't really be waiting any longer to play the game but it would make the overall playing experience more enjoyable
for the people that are not serial hunger games players.
You are already fixing the glitches which is great!
I think it would be also interesting to increase the payouts to the Final 6 - it would be simple to do and would add a new dynamic since a lot of the game
is getting to "payouts" it would be a twist without really changing the game. Even if 5th and 6th just got 5K 30T and 5K 20T
Stars
Again, it is a click race every week and the same people get in. There is obviously a huge demand for the game so increase the wait time in between games by 2-4 weeks so people can't
play every 6 weeks or whatever it currently is now.
Another solution is to increase the wait times but have a second cycle of stars, starting mid week?! Our profile
pages would need to be updated to show both polls if that was the case.
Oh and unban @serene she isn't a multiple account ....