Since we don't have any Godfathers at this moment it would be nice to change the crew limit in GF crews back to 11 as it once was. With the crews already being limited to 30 from 40, and the number of players dwindling with only 383 it makes no sense to keep them at 16.

By doing so Squishy it allows the crews to do exactly that rather than what we had recently seen in the last regime where some godfather crews hoarded the best and authed no one under them; for example Gash's entire Philadelphia.

This makes some sense.  I always enjoyed the 11 men GF HQ size, as it made the GF crews feel more like the specific set of most trusted guns and advisors.

So, the game numbers are dwindling.  But what can be done to help revamp those numbers?

Vito_DiGiorgio 

2 words. Culture. shift.

Granite

Can you ellaborate?

The past several years have seen player culture that at times got so problematic that Izzy had to step in for the good of the game. The statement recently made that a group was going to hurt the game until rules were changed is a perfect example of this. Players have spent so much time trying to find ways to stay at the top of the stack that they drove players away. 

You want to see MR grow, that sort of feeling needs to change. We need to get back to the point where the response to getting wacked was to shrug, curse, and start fresh. and this isn't an overnight change. Let's see that be the mindset for a couple generations, a couple of regimes. Then maybe we can bring back some of the old blood that left when the culture changed. and if we can do that, You'll see growth. we get back to that point, and MR will GROW! 

So many people give Izzy flack for reacting to things the way he does. This game is his fucking life. If it does well, so does he. If someone makes an effort to hurt the game financially, they're hurting Izzy, attacking him personally. You wanna blame someone for his reactions to things, blame the assholes who decided that it was ok to cause real life consequences for actions in a fucking game.

Let's get back to the point where the Admin wack is for Dupes and Scripters, not because some asshole was threatening to fuck with someone's livelihood over a game.