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| '''''WARNING: This vaguely humorous and semi-serious article requires a major infusion of humor, beer, and cookies before it is fit for public consumption. If you possess such rare and highly valuable building materials, you should consider donating them for the Greater Good!'''''<br>
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| ==<span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''The Facts'''</span><br>==
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| ''It's 2012. There are 10,000 some active players left in Malton. Many/most of the oldest groups still active are down 10-15 something odd players active. Many have even less.''
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| ===<span style="width: 50%; border: 1px solid red; background-color: #000000; text-align: justify; -moz-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -webkit-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -o-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -ms-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); box-shadow: 2px 2px 5px silver; padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px; color: white; font-size:larger;">'''FACT #1:'''</span> <span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''Malton is nothing without community.'''</span><br>===
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| The wiki is still active, but the realities of the in-game world and the wiki have become strangely disconnected. Status reports have not been updated in an eternity. Many groups on the wiki no longer exist in game. Some groups in-game are still active and have a substantial force, but one couldn't tell by looking at their wiki pages, which were lasted updated in 2007. Many of the larger groups still active have abandoned the wiki completely, retreating to their forums, while other groups may or may not be active, but no longer even have a forum.<br>
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| ===<span style="width: 50%; border: 1px solid red; background-color: #000000; text-align: justify; -moz-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -webkit-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -o-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -ms-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); box-shadow: 2px 2px 5px silver; padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px; color: white; font-size:larger;">'''FACT #2:'''</span> <span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''Malton is a "Zombie" apocalypse.'''</span><br>===
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| The current dwindling number of active players places the zombie population at 34%. In a large majority of Malton, players can travel for dozens of blocks without seeing a single undead. If there's no undead to fight, then what is there to do in the game?<br>
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| While other games come and go, receiving crazy graphics updates and patches that require gigabytes of downloads, Malton remains true to its roots: a simple, fast, text and colored block game. The basic skill needed to play Malton is easily acquired, but the community driven aspect constantly evolves the experience.<br>
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| ===<span style="width: 50%; border: 1px solid red; background-color: #000000; text-align: justify; -moz-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -webkit-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -o-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -ms-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); box-shadow: 2px 2px 5px silver; padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px; color: white; font-size:larger;">'''FACT #4:'''</span> <span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''The number of new players in Malton has dwindled to almost nothing.'''</span><br>===
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| Although Malton still sees its fair share of new signups, the majority of these accounts go inactive after the first time they are killed or level one, whichever comes first. A new character's first days in Malton, particularly for rookies, can make or break their experience. If they find empty and ruined buildings in deserted suburbs, they likely won't keep playing. On the other hand, if they run into a massive hoard and are killed in seconds, they definitely won't be back.<br>
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| ===<span style="width: 50%; border: 1px solid red; background-color: #000000; text-align: justify; -moz-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -webkit-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -o-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -ms-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); box-shadow: 2px 2px 5px silver; padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px; color: white; font-size:larger;">'''FACT #5:'''</span> <span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''It is harder to start a new group in Malton these days.'''</span><br>===
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| With even the most ancient and storied groups run to the ground for lack of recruits, no one can argue that a new low-level player will have an incredibly hard time finding recruits to help them build up a strong group.<br>
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| ===<span style="width: 50%; border: 1px solid red; background-color: #000000; text-align: justify; -moz-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -webkit-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -o-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -ms-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); box-shadow: 2px 2px 5px silver; padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px; color: white; font-size:larger;">'''FACT #6:'''</span> <span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''An unorganized survivor is a dead survivor.'''</span><br>===
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| Without clear coordination, survivors have an incredibly hard time maintaining the supply lines vital to survival. This includes barricades on safehouses, fuel for generators in resource buildings, and working revive points. Even freelance survivors have an easier time working closely with other survivors in moderately populated areas.<br>
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| ===<span style="width: 50%; border: 1px solid red; background-color: #000000; text-align: justify; -moz-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -webkit-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -o-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -ms-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); box-shadow: 2px 2px 5px silver; padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px; color: white; font-size:larger;">'''FACT #7:'''</span> <span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''The majority of zombies have gotten lazy.'''</span><br>===
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| Instead of a continuous drive to assault survivor positions followed by a period of downtime, where the hoards pull out to other suburbs, giving survivors a chance to reclaim the suburb and prepare for the next offensive, the zombies today are content to ruin buildings and then camp out in them permanently. This destroys the critical game mechanic of balance, meaning that survivors have an incredibly hard time taking back permanently ruined infrastructure. Thus, the critical challenge of Malton is ruined, and survivors have no choice but to retreat to zombie free suburbs. At the same time, there are not enough zombies to go around, and many suburbs are left with no undead action at all.<br>
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| ===<span style="width: 50%; border: 1px solid red; background-color: #000000; text-align: justify; -moz-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -webkit-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -o-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -ms-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); box-shadow: 2px 2px 5px silver; padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px; color: white; font-size:larger;">'''FACT #8:'''</span> <span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''The PKer vs. Bounty Hunter metagame is broken.'''</span><br>===
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| Although there remain plenty of PKers, there are few dedicated bounty hunters still around. Thus, PKers have only average survivors as targets, survivors who are already hard-pressed to keep the undead at bay and maintain Malton's infrastructure.<br>
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| PKers require the same ammunition and supplies as regular pro-survivors, and face the same limitations when zombies are permanently located in ruined malls and police departments.<br>
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| ===<span style="width: 50%; border: 1px solid red; background-color: #000000; text-align: justify; -moz-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -webkit-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -o-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -ms-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); box-shadow: 2px 2px 5px silver; padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px; color: white; font-size:larger;">'''FACT #10:'''</span> <span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''The code of honor once shared by most PKers has grown dull of late.'''</span><br>===
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| In years past, a large number of "respectable" PKers who held a code of honor once kept other, more dastardly PKers in line. However, these groups have suffered the same member drain as others, and are no longer a match for lone, honorless lowlifes.<br>
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| ===<span style="width: 50%; border: 1px solid red; background-color: #000000; text-align: justify; -moz-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -webkit-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -o-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -ms-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); box-shadow: 2px 2px 5px silver; padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px; color: white; font-size:larger;">'''FACT #11:'''</span> <span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''Inter-group communication and operations is at an all-time low.'''</span><br>===
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| While most groups hold alliances of some kind, very few of these have actually seen use in recent times. Indeed, even some of the oldest and largest "Alliances" are now a distant memory, with only handfuls of members left in ghosts of groups.<br>
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| ===<span style="width: 50%; border: 1px solid red; background-color: #000000; text-align: justify; -moz-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -webkit-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -o-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -ms-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); box-shadow: 2px 2px 5px silver; padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px; color: white; font-size:larger;">'''FACT #12:'''</span> <span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''It is impossible to hold large buildings without a large and dedicated force.'''</span><br>===
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| Even against small zombie hoards, these buildings will fall. Once they have fallen, it will take only a small holding force of zombies to keep the buildings ruined and out of action. Yet, it would require a substantially larger force of survivors to clear and hold them again.
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| ==<span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''The Solution?'''</span> <span style="width: 50%; border: 1px solid red; background-color: #000000; text-align: justify; -moz-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -webkit-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -o-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); -ms-transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); transform: rotate(-2deg) skew(0deg); box-shadow: 2px 2px 5px silver; padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px; color: white; font-size:large;">'''12 x 12'''</span>==
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| <span style="width: 50%; border: 1px solid red; background-color: #000000; text-align: justify; -moz-transform: rotate(4deg) skew(0deg); -webkit-transform: rotate(4deg) skew(0deg); -o-transform: rotate(4deg) skew(0deg); -ms-transform: rotate(4deg) skew(0deg); transform: rotate(4deg) skew(0deg); box-shadow: 2px 2px 5px silver; padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px; color: white; font-size:large;">'''The Plan'''</span> Gather together a force of at least 12 individual groups which currently have around 12 active members or less. This combined taskforce will then tour Malton, clearing and retaking buildings, reviving zombies, and the like, all while looking to achieve the goal of acquiring at least 12 new members for each group.
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| There are still plenty of active survivors who are unaffiliated. A large majority of these are newer, lower level players, but plenty of Malton veterans have returned only to find their past groups long gone. The goal is to find the friendless survivors new groups out of the many great groups that are struggling to stay on the stats page these days.
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| Why Malton 12 x 12? Why not 10 x 10? Simple. It's 2012, there are twelve months in a year, and I figure we've got about 12 months to unleash a full scale Malton campaign or watch the city continue to fade away. And getting 12 new members for 12 groups which currently have 12 active members means a gross of new recruits. Should be enough to take on the Dead. Perhaps.
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| The taskforce of groups will include both mobile groups and those groups normally located in a single suburb or region who wish to participate.<br><br>
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| <span style="width: 50%; border: 1px solid red; background-color: #000000; text-align: justify; -moz-transform: rotate(4deg) skew(0deg); -webkit-transform: rotate(4deg) skew(0deg); -o-transform: rotate(4deg) skew(0deg); -ms-transform: rotate(4deg) skew(0deg); transform: rotate(4deg) skew(0deg); box-shadow: 2px 2px 5px silver; padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px; color: white; font-size:large;">'''The Tour'''</span> As part of a twelve month campaign (or however long it takes/we have), we get the taskforce of groups mobilized and move through every single suburb in Malton. Sounds simple right? Well, here's the rest of the idea. The taskforce is followed up by a massive undead hoard, which gives the taskforce enough time to secure every building in a suburb and prepare defenses, then launches an all-out siege on the suburb. When the suburb is finally totally ruined, the hoard pulls back one suburb and gives the taskforce enough time to revive, rebuild and restock, then move out to the next suburb. Rinse and repeat for 100 suburbs.
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| '''''Alternate idea:''''' The taskforce and the undead hoard begin at opposite ends of Malton and make their way into Malton, ruining or rebuilding suburbs in alternating, opposite directions, until finally meeting up for the "Big Bash" in Ridleybank. Eventually, the taskforce will pass through and begin repairing what the undead had already destroyed, and the hoard will ruin what was previously repaired. That, or everyone will just be dead in Ridleybank and it's game over.
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| Both these ideas operate on the principle that not every group, survivor and undead, will be part of the taskforce or the hoard. However, the more that are, the more fun it will be.
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| '''''Why the bloody hell?:''''' Simple. It's all in the game. And the way the game is going, it just might be game over soon. The ultimate goal is to get the entire remaining community together for the most fun adventure possible with such a small community left. And to rebuild the sense of community and action so beloved of days past.
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| '''''You're insane!:''''' As Kevan is my witness, time will tell if my idea is doomed to fail. Either way, it is my offered solution to a growing problem. Whether it gains momentum is beyond my control.
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| I have talked with the leaders of many old groups recently, and all agree that attracting new recruits is a problem these days. There is simply not enough of a community left. And while there are plenty of active and large groups left, these may be mobile or in more populated/ high profile areas. The problem is one of scale and location, and for now small groups permanently located in one suburb, it is sure a problem.
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| ==<span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''Frequently Anticipated Questions, Arguments, Random Outbursts:'''</span><br>==
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| '''Q:''' '''''I'm a PKer/PKer group? What can I do to disrupt you activities?'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' Do you really need to ask?
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| '''Q:''' '''''I'm a PKer/PKer group? What can I do to help?'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' Now isn't that something? Well, if you would like join in some good old-fashioned anti-zombie action, I won't hold it against you.
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| '''Q:''' '''''I'm one of the (very few) large groups left, and your idea sucks!'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' That was not very nice, and also not a question.
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| '''Q:''' '''''I'm a citizen of Malton who is unaffiliated with any group. How can I join this movement?'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' This isn't a temporary movement like "Mall Tour" or another limited time gathering of players, but rather a movement to permanently connect survivors with the groups the currently exist but are in need of members. If you like the idea, join one of the participating groups!
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| '''Q:''' '''''I'm a a freelance player and hate groups. Can I just join in the action?'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' Sure!
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| '''Q:''' '''''BARHAH!'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' We'll see you on the field of battle.
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| '''Q:''' '''''We're a zombie hoard. How can we eat your bra!nz today?'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' Join the zombie hoard counter-taskforce!
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| '''Q:''' '''''We're the RRF/MOB and we need members too!'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' Have you considered the fact that there are plenty of feral zombies just hanging about? I'm sure your hoards would pickup a number of new members by joining in the counter-strike.
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| '''Q:''' '''''I'm an admin/sysop. How can I help?'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' Spread the word! Join the movement! Heck, if your name is Axe Hack and you'd like to commandeer the entire project, go right ahead! I came up with the idea, but the solution belongs to everyone.
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| '''Q:''' '''''I'm an admin/sysop and your idea is stupid.'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' My apologies. If you have a better idea, I'm listening.
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| '''Q:''' '''''Where is the forum?'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' There is no forum. Use Brainstock or any one of the other great forums that haven't seen much action lately. Use the local group forums. Use the damn wiki! The point of this project is to increase inter-group communication!
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| '''Q:''' '''''THIS IS A GREAT IDEA! But I have some suggestions/improvements!'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' Great! Use the talk page. Or just edit this page.
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| '''Q:''' '''''I'm the leader of a group with 12 active members. Where do I sign up?'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' Just add your group to the support list below.
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| '''Q:''' '''''I'm the leader of a large group and you should all stop wasting time and join my group.'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' Good for you.
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| '''Q:''' '''''Your idea is so great, I'm going to copy it and pass it off as my own!'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' Arsehole.
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| '''Q:''' '''''Cool Story Bro. Have a cookie.'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' Cookie!!!!!! ''*Gobbles cookie*''
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| '''Q:''' '''''Did you think this shit up in five minutes?'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' No. Actually, I first thought about this problem a year ago. Back then, my solution involved a mess of centralized forum planning, regional command structure, and a whole boatload of new groups. Having had a year to reassess the problem, I have concluded that this is the only possible "solution", short of a mass of new players. And that really seems unlikely at this stage.
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| '''Q:''' '''''I'm a one-man group and I need members! Can I join?'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' Seriously? Why not join one of the fine groups participating in this?
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| '''Q:''' '''''Guarantees?'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' No refunds.
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| '''Q:''' '''''Will it work?'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' To do what, revive the game? Or find members for groups? The later seems quite promising.
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| '''Q:''' '''''Explain entire strategy.'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' Gather taskforce. Tour Malton. Fight zeds. Have fun or die.
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| '''Q:''' '''''Enough with the questions!'''''<br>
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| '''A:''' In that case, enough with the answers!
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| ==<span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''Supporters'''</span>==
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| Have a group with 12 or so active members and want more? Think this is a good idea? Show your support below! Of course we will accept as many groups as want to join, but for now:
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| ===<span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''The Big (Little) 12:'''</span>===
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| As the Chief Architect of this <strike>dastardly devious and certainly doomed to fail, scandalous, miserable attempt at an ominously obscure and unprecedentedly unpredictable</strike> "event", I will not submit my own group to <strike>such a humiliating defeat as</strike> this event, as it will likely assume a more administrative role based on organization of this <strike>colossal failure of an</strike> undertaking.
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| So, if you've got the balls, or the beer, or both to take it, then step right up and sign your name.
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| ==<span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''Independent Survivor Support'''</span>==
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| ==<span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''PKer Support'''</span>==
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| ==<span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''Zombie Support'''</span>==
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| ==<span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''Sysop Support'''</span>==
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| ==<span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''Bub Support'''</span>==
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| ==<span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''A Randomly Undead Thought'''</span>==
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| '''''It's 3:00. Do you know where your zombie is?'''''
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| What is UD without zombies? Where is your zombie alt? What's that, you haven't got a dedicated zombie alt? Why the bloody hell not?! MAKE ONE! But only one! No zerging!
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| ==<span style="font-size:large; color:#00008B">'''Tales From Malton'''</span>==
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| |I'm a survivor. Always have been, always will be. I came to Malton in the last days of 2006, to a city filled with life... and the undead. A short time thereafter, I started up a group. It did pretty well, gaining members and eventually merging with another small group to form the Malton Department of Defense. Late 2007 and early 2008 was a high time for the MDD. We attracted new members regularly and had a strong enough force to take on some large operations. We never really got as large as I hoped, but it didn't matter. In those days, Malton was full of life, and you couldn't walk two blocks without running into members of a tiny, new groups and members of a huge, ancient group sharing the same safehouse. Anyway, by 2009 the MDD had run into a major new recruit shortage, and basically crashed, as did a lot of smaller and medium sized groups around that time.
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| Fast forward to July 2011. After years of being outside of Malton, I returned to the city. It certainly wasn't what I had left. Many of the old groups I had known had vanished without a trace, long time members simply lost in the mists of Malton. I found the remnants of my old group and made up my mind to restart it with a major overhaul, and make it better than ever. It took many months, but eventually I had built an active member base again. And then I noticed the stats page. It came as a major shock to me when I was checking recently and discovered that not only had the reactivated MDD made it on the list, but that it held a fairly average ranking for a group, of around 12 active members. And then I noticed the names of some of the other groups with 10 to 15 active members. I couldn't believe it! Even DEM member groups with only 10 active members? Some of the oldest and formerly largest groups in the game now barely clinging to the stats page? That was when I realized why Malton was done for. Well, that and a million other reasons. But there is still hope.
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| ~[http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=742574 TheFireChief]
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| ''Have your own "Tales From Malton" you'd like to share? Write it on the back of 12' x 12' sheet of plywood in #7 "Zombie Blood Red" ink and postmark it to '''"The Save Malton Campaign"''', then drop it off the roof of [[The Usher Building]]. Or just go ahead and add your story!''
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