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2002 the famous game "Mafia the Game" appeared. That game with its deep story impressed me more than any other game so far. The story is still outstanding and would be worth a great mobster movie.

Maybe around 2006 I met the german community for this game. I was impressed. The forum was mostly a mix of forum and roleplay around that game.

I was impressed and a little sad I joined that community not in its starting times. But, I loved the idea of bringing this community to even more live ... by making it alive. One part of the forum was the "Sturtzbeer" ( which is today the violin case bar, called starrys beer today often).

I started with one player, Frucade, who visited daily as the one person the growing game, after a while we have been becoming around 25 regular players. Rick, the bartender of the bar, played his role now ingame, you do not want to know what he filled into his beer, if he ran out of regular beer.

We also had attention seeking people, hater, toxic, but we handled it

Nothing lasts forever and the community around Mafia the Game moved on, my small community left the game for other things after a few years. Thats normal.

I never had the skills to run a big community, so sorry guys.

BUT I understand how a great community needs to work. The admins on mafia the game have been neutral and consistent. By that everyone had a great time.

If I would handle a forum or a discord for downtown, my idea would be similar to how the mafia the game forum was. And that was very straight.

And that would be the way most forums are working these days successfully.

It is a game, people have the chance to give something and the more you give, the more you get back in life. If your idea is to seek attention, annoy other people or destroy their fun, what do you get back in real life for that?

In my small community the players made some buildings, ship and some interieur, like the bar chairs, the bar desk, the old piano. A lot could be possible in a positive community.

Welcome

There would be a lot to write and I do not know where to start.

Before I start, you need to understand, that I only earn money if players do not block my ads. If you block them, I do not get a penny back from you playing the game.

For several reasons, a lot of players left the game. I think all in all it is normal, players leave a game after a while. Interesting fact, players have been playing the game 2.2 million hours since November 2021. With the big update in November I tried to increase the playerbase and as everyone knows, it went not good and I had to take back most changes. My target to have more players and have them longer in the game failed.

Improving the playtime of new players is essentiel for the game, so, if you pro players make new players quit or ragequit the game, you are part of killing the game.

The more players come back to the game and the longer they play it, the more the game is seen on crazygames. The game lost many ranks on crazygames and that reduces the income I have. Guys, do not get me wrong, I do not earn enough money with downtown to make a living of it. But I want to increase the player numbers so I could justify to myself to add more content.

I added tons of content to the game for you pro players, the race mode is something I added to make it more interesting especially for the new players, but I hope you guys like it, too.

As I never make any promises, I share my idea what I will add next to the game, to make it more interesting for new players. I will add a team deathmatch mode and hope it improves the playerbase.

You guys really could support me by beeing helpfull and fair to new player to become a part of the community, and not blocking my ads.