So its our job to keep new people on the game?

You're damn right it is our job as players to keep people on the game. Players are the blood of Mafia Returns. The more people that sign up and stay, the better the odds of expanding and creating more things. This isn't a mega franchise, its very grass roots and supported with love and respect for the game and what it provides us. If you don't understand that, I'm sorry.

"you are kind of cock-blocking the user that is waiting for your contact, cock blocking the other sponsors, and greatly hurting the advertising we are doing by locking the new users into jobs that will never result into a crew contact."

I dont understand what you mean by blocking. does the contact to a sponsor upon completion of 3 jobs only happen 1 time for a new user? So, they're not able to do jobs for other families also? thus making multiple contacts across the game?

I must admit, I am bad for having my sponser ability toggled off, but that's not due to me not wanting to mail new people to get them interested in the game, but that's just because I have been idling, or leaving MR on my PC/phone when I am working etc, and yet I will be punished because I forgot to click on a button? I understand the thought process behind it, but I feel it is a tad bit harsh, especially when at least half of my recruitment messages are ignored, people carry on doing my jobs and then join someone else. I hope my post doesn't come through as discourteous, as it is meant to be a helpful input into this topic.

I don't know if this helps, but may be a logo could be put against a characters name in the jobs section to indicate that it is a new master account, so that way people will know the importance of that recruitment message?

I had honestly hoped that players who were designated sponsors would turn it off if they were unable to contact people for whatever reason. I guess I had high hopes for that ability to be used.

If you feel that making it so that there is a wait before its turned back on would help then I am all for it.

I agree with Joey and what you did before however maybe there would be a way to limit it so we are not giving them actual Crew Leaders but more of a tutorial system? We can keep new players on an Island of their own which can teach them the many ways to play, such as their own RIA's to race for but in a limited format so that they do not gain too big of an advantage over usual hitters.

They can run a few free jails with a maximum of whatever you felt would be best so if you feel 3 would be enough to get them going and understanding how jails work, or higher, they can also do a few free MIA's for the same reason. I know a lot of this sounds like we are giving new players free stuff but that really is how I feel it should be for a brand new character.

This game has many ways to play between earners, and hitting, and once you reach that hitting level you realize there is so much more work to hitting than just playing casually, true hitting in X amount of days requires a lot of dedication, the kind of dedication that may not reach out to a casual audience. Earning and Units would be what could reach out to a casual audience but many times they are not ever remembered for what they do, when a city dies the people thanked are the Leaders, very few every state the members that were awesome let alone by name, maybe this is something people should look to change for the future.

But back to the point I definitely think giving brand new players a haven of their own to learn the basics of the game is a much better start, as I have recruited many new players and even wrote up a massive guide for them and helped them throughout it and they simply did not enjoy it and left the game. A place for them to do this without having to worry about other players may help a lot in finding out if the game is fun for you or not, especially without the ability to sign up learn a little piece of the game then get killed in a war days later.

I get that people thought you were interfering with the game, but if the above I mentioned is possible with a form of lets say NPC Crew Leader and not actual players, I really don't think anyone has anything to complain about in what you mentioned.

Anyways this is just my views as I was speaking on this earlier today and figured I would post it here since the discussion is being raised.

I have never intentionally ignored anyone looking for work that has contacted me in the past.  However, I recall getting messages basically saying  so and so has contacted you and has not heard from me but is still not in a family... Bewildered, because I thought I was toggled off. Maybe I missed something but never intentionally. Also, I want to add there were two periods where I have been bombarded with contacts and I had to turn off because I RP with anyone who knocks on my door before I send an invite. There has been times when I felt like I needed to consult with my upper structure (CL) before a decision is made. This is and can be time consuming. Thus why I strongly feel new arrivals are not given enough time to get on a family. I thank you for caring. ;)

I was referring to past kin. I am too busy robbing graves right now to sponsor. lol But this is good to know for future reference as I plan to rise one of these years. ;)