06-11-2011, 04:05 PM
Habibi Jones Wrote:Maybe you should change your guild name to [Trolls].I now want to start playing a mortal just to make the [Troll] guild and just try to make people angry all day.
Habibi Jones Wrote:Staff, have you considered adding a donation option for skills? $25 per craft skill seems pretty reasonable... It will help the players, the staff, and the shard as a whole. Just my opinion. If someone wants to drop $100 bucks to get 4 gm skills, what's the harm in that? It'll only help the server...While it is very tempting to sell craft stills to get the donations to keep the shard going, this is a very slippery slope to go down. Here's the general staff consensus on donations and a rundown of the system we have now:
When trying to come up with a reward for donations, we wanted to be able to give players an actual reward to show that they have donated, but we did not want to be like the Korean item shop games where you have to donate money to be able to have an advantage or get special items. The solution that we came up with was the Nickel system. As it is, you can donate to get nickels, but you can also get the nickels in-game, so people who don't want to donate money can still come participate in events to get these rewards. This way, we can't ever be accused of trying to milk money from people for special treatment and it levels the playing field. You can help the shard by donating, or you can help the shard by participating in events and making the place more fun, or both.
For this reason, we don't want to make it so that you can buy specific things only with donations for the same reason we don't want to sell gold to players. You're basically trading real-life money for an advantage in the game, which I think makes the game less fun for people who want to play the game normally.
With that being said, I think that the nickel system is a nice program since we can infinitely expand the prizes, swap some in/out, and it's accessible through multiple means. Anything that we wouldn't make available through that system would not be purchasable through donations.