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I was speaking to someone about the theme this site has and it was decided that bringing it up couldn't hurt, so I am.

Every single person that I know (as in like, have communicated with a fair deal over time) on this site does not really care about Redwall. To add to that I know for a fact that over the years the theme here has heavily discouraged many Prom players from coming here because it feels a little creepy. Like, honestly, this website feels like some To Catch a Predator material to me. A bunch of adults on a website that is themed after something that is for kids, you know? It's a bad look. Between the alienation this site has always had from the rest of the Prom community and the fact that the Redwall theme seems to be failing now given the amount of players who don't like the theme and the overall userbase I think some discussion of a possible change could be healthy.

Now, themed Prom games are what attract the most people. A while ago myself and another player launched one themed after a video game series that was not particularly popular and the first set began with over 100 players registered. Before that I have seen it done multiple times and be successful every time save one where the game just didn't work. Themes can help, but this one is obviously not helping and even hurting somewhat considering there are still several Prom players out there and most won't play here even though the code is so interesting.

I already know a lot of people will probably not like the idea of a change, but seriously think about it, it's obviously not working out. I'm not even saying just flat out abandon the theme and go back to regular Prom theme, I'm just saying maybe it's about time everyone really thought about something that could attract more players. And before anyone blames this on Prom being unpopular let it be known that to this day Prom games are still reaching 50 players or more per set without any theme at all, and Prom in general was even more dead when I and another were able to get a game of 100 players who had never even heard of Prom before going.

What is your favorite, or at least most memorable set not just at RWL, but in Prom period?

For me it was June of 07. Back then I was teaming up with Gondor (the QMT one) and All About Revenge a lot, and that particular set we teamed up in every game we played, and one of the three of us won every single one of them. Gondor won Valhall Vintage and we almost accidentally broke the net record in it, AAR won Valhall Battlefield and QMT Classic, and I won Valhall Strategy and Valhall Classic Battle. This was also back when winning at Valhall actually took a little effort.

I've been wondering this for the last 5 minutes or so after talking to an old Prom buddy about us maybe popping into QMT again for a set, why do you play Prom?

Personally, I don't. Started 5 or 6 years ago and really only enjoyed 3 or 4 of those years, the rest was dealing with whiny and cheap players who just aid people for wins, instead of people actually getting the rank that they earned. I think this was more of a problem at Valhall and WGZ than anywhere else, but those were my main games so I got plenty of it. Taking them down is only satisfying until you realize they'll never stop so long as they have players willing to help them. Now when I go to any Prom site it's really just out of boredom, or for a little hit of nostalgia. Seems like the quality of the games and the quality of the players themselves has gone [what I consider] down in the last few years and I was just never a big fan of spending my time playing against people who have no idea what they're doing. Part of the problem with my activity might be that from day one I had a clear goal, which was to take a win on every Valhall server, and once I did that I just kind of said screw it.

anywaysimdoneramblingnow