A thought on the donator problem.. Donators Day..

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Glamrin

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For a while now I´ve had an idea and with the recent donation problems I thought Id share it and see what you think about it. As it seems to be at the moment Platinum donators have pocketplane and silver and gold donators gets their scarecrow illusions and such.. but other than these things the only time donations and donators seems to be mentioned in game is when donations are running really low and the servers future might be threathened... My thought is that Id like to see donations being discussed or mentioned in a more positive light/way in game and the idea I have is to create a Donators day say once every other month or once every quarter of the year.

The Idea with the Donators Day would be that on that day once every other month (or however often it would be taking place) some special event or something special would happen for all of the donators / or where donators are invited to take part (taking part or not would ofcourse be optional!). It would be a great way to say thanks to donators and also a positive way to remind the rest of the server that the donations are important and needed.

Ofcourse there are a few important things to keep in mind.. whatever event is taking place or whatever happens on the donators day it shouldnt in any way affect the gameplay / balance between donators and non donator players.. ie for example naturally there shouldnt be any items available only to donators (atleast not any overpowering ones), however some examples of things that could happen would be for example a sneak peek at a new zone... a Tmap event / competition like the one that took place for everyone who was online a while back, Some donator quest for the day only or if imagination or time is really low for the people planning it maybe even a double xp day for donators only... (ie all things that wouldnt give donators anything that any non donator player couldnt get (or get something equal of) as well if spending enough time on it).

Those are ofcourse only a few examples and wether you like the above ones or not isnt so important for the idea in itself.. ie a positive way of reminding everyone in game about Donating (without being nagging about it).

// Gladis
 
I agree, this sounds good.. Propably the main reason people don't donate Silver/Gold is because they don't get anything too special compared to the normal non-donator players. And as for the Plat, it's just too expensive for most people. And at the moment, I'm very worried about the server, we need more donators. Donating should become a more attractive option for people.
Item with illusion: scarecrow won't propably do the trick but could be a fun item.. Pocketplane, I bet, is great tho'.

Just saying this because.. I want the server to stay up.. And just that seems not to be enough for everybody. Or they're just out of cash. (and no, this ain't just talk! ;P I'm starting to donate too as soon as my bank account transfer to moneybookers is complete - it said 2-5 days, argh.. lol)
 
Hey, it used to be that you got nothing for silver/gold, and you got the illusion scarecrow for plat. When the current system was put in place one guy argued that it was terrible because now people HAD to donate and oh god the horror jeez!
 
Perhaps more 'fun items' could be looked at? If a clicky scarecrow is possible, and it is only for fun having no stat changes or anything, then would it hurt a great deal to make a couple more?

Perhaps a couple more low levelish illusions for silver, that get better as you go gold/plat? I'm not saying 20 illusion clickies or anything, but perhaps another one or two per level of donation? I believe that it is currently possible to get a dragon clicky whilst in pocketplane, but what is wrong with enabling that for outside play? If it is a problem with coding such as the fact that there aren't dragons in all zones I can understand, but otherwise I could see something like that being an incentive.

Aside from illusion clickies, perhaps even add an item that WOULD be useful, but not overpowering, such as a shrink or grow clicky? The ability to do either is more for convenience than anything else, and I don't believe affects gameplay at all. I know that there are a couple items in game that already do this, not to mention spells, but it is just another idea of something people may be willing to donate for.
 
I know that character moves dont happen anymore. How about a small charge to move a character to another account. This will up the server funds a great deal I am sure.
 
We're not selling donations, and we really really don't want to stretch the benefits any further. Not that it's a bad idea, but if people don't want to donate when they can get a whole zone to themselves, nothing we will realistically offer them is going to change their mind.
 
Damn, I knew I forgot something hehe. Kynd and I have two main chars, each on our one and only accounts. Zoning/dying is a great inconvenience when it happens at the same time, with each of us losing one or occasionally both to crashing.

I am sure a lot of other people out there are in the same situation, as it still seems to be something that you hear someone mention at least a few times a week. I know someone else suggested that it be available to donators, but I think either Rabb or Wiz squashed that suggestion. As Kynd said though, allowing it at a small fee, perhaps another $5 or so, would give the server a bit of a boost. Or perhaps even incorporate both ideas, donator only and with a small fee? I know Kynd and I at least would be happy to do that to have one single character moved. :)
 
How about one day a month all the non donators get mooch icons?

Ok, bad suggestion... couldn't help myself :)

Craig
 
Kynd said:
I know that character moves dont happen anymore. How about a small charge to move a character to another account. This will up the server funds a great deal I am sure.
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How about things stay the way they are lest we become yet another Knghtonline-esqe server, with non-donator lockouts, and GM's who only deal politely with paying players. Just an idea.
 
I think things were staying the way they were 4 months ago, and still are!
 
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