A few suggestions (oh no myths back) (in General)

Yep only been back a week and time for a suggestions thread :P Who knows there might be a few contests in a while :P

1) new_players
Shouldn't exist, I remember CB, it was chat chat chat and if chat died down a new player would ask a question which would begin a whole new conversation, get rid or at least have a poll about it, puting a new player in a room with 3 other people is not a great welcome to what should be a thriving community.

2) NUB
Money side of it should be scaled, full bonus for the first week, 50% for the second week etc...

3) Auction Feed
Should either replace fight feed or be in addition to, showing the 3 or so most recently ending auctions.

1) I doubt if merging the two rooms would help the activity levels in chat at all.

3) There are RSS feeds for auctions I think.

1) Can't really talk about it, not chatting much.
2) NuB should be abolished and replaced with a RB.
3) I'd actually like an auction bid feed, but some might find that it
"dumbs down" auctioning.

I agree with Eurynome, but I don't think an auction feed would dumb down auctioning. It might help to level out some of the erratic sales.

More items would be sold at a fair price (not too low) if we had such a feed, I think. Might even...

...make Mr.C obsolete? (do we have enough active players here for that?)

Of course the feed would need to update like the fight one does. Instantly, when a bid is made.

We don't have nearly enough people to get rid of Mr. C., but the feed would get rid of weird things like this:

http://www.carnageblender.com/gc/view-one.tcl?classified_ad_id=127566

Yeah, I figured I was being overly optimistic. It would still help reduce the number of auction abominations, like you said.

I like #1.

1 is a good idea (While you're at it, someone find a way to stop my CB chat from freezing randomly, if constantly, whenever I open a full screen application. Rather annoying.)

3 is a fantastic idea.

2 is meh. People are so anti NUB actually proposing to change it just brings on the horse beaters with their wiffle ball bats to claim for the Rolling Bonus.

I agree number 2 is at first glance a bit of a jumping on a popular band wagon. However I think if you think about it there's two things that must be true :
A) Jon wants to reward new players with a bonus
B) Most current players feel the reward is far too huge and there is a very large backlash to the NUB players specially who sell stuff for USD

so therefore the only answer is C) scale down the NUB bonus. Imo doing it in a stepped system so that the reward decreases means hopefully there would be less "right my NUB is over, time to sell up" plus at the very start new players have a lot of cash to experiment with.

At the end of the day you're meant to work hard in a game to get the best stuff, at the same time you don't want new players with pikes and leather gloves good balance and a third way to be found imo.