As you can clearly see, we're adding a donation perks system in lieu of the old money-packs, which we felt allowed the richer players to just dish their money (or their parent's money) on a huge amount of money-packs and skip the entire money-earning process and damage the economy in the meantime.
The first thing to note is that your donations will be saved as a lifetime value. If you donate £5 once, and then three months later donate another £5, you'll have access to the £10 perks.
What do you want to see as perks? Obviously we're not going to have weapons or anything like that, as it would be far too pay2win, much like the old money-packs which you could use to instantly buy the best weapons at low hours.
The main ideas we have so far are new quality player-models, prop limit raises, and things such as OOC timer reductions, etc. What do you guys and girls wish to see?
Also please note that soon we'll be changing the donation page to allow one to donate as little or as much as one wishes (from $1 upwards).
(Aug 7, 2015, 07:39 AM)Faustie link Wrote: [ -> ]The main ideas we have so far are new quality player-models, prop limit raises, and things such as OOC timer reductions, etc. What do you guys and girls wish to see?
Also please note that soon we'll be changing the donation page to allow one to donate as little or as much as one wishes (from $1 upwards).
Great start ideas.
Maybe AFK timer increases?
Or special icons in the OOC chat?
Or even special skins for vehicles?
Character custimizations.
I'll donate my arm if you add the CSS CT models as a perk for either one of the packages.
Raised proplimits could work as well, but no monetary gains as far as my opinion goes.
If the server can handle it with many people using the perk, I think it should be possible 5-10 prop increase every pack so
Buy £5 - Normal Perks
Buy £10 - 5-10 Props Increase, along with other stuff
Buy £15 - 5-10 Props Increase, along with other stuff
Buy £20 - 5-10 Props Increase, along with other stuff
Buy 25 - Special Perk
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I also like the idea of reduction on OOC Timer, that is a neat idea. Possible you can have a OOC that is unlocked so you can reply
once and the reply again straight after.
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Increasing the AFK Timer to 20 or 25 minutes?
The approach sound very interesting to me.
I agree with the others there is no need to gain any money, the doubled salary is already massive income boost.
I really like the skin idea as it would increase the role play quality. Is there already a selection of planned skins or are they still up for discussion?
And I am fond of Blurr's OOC idea - that way I can fix my typos faster
And by the way, I would change the term "Lifetime" as it is a bit misleading some people already got the idea of it being a lifetime donator status.
The only thing I could think of was of simply adding a note: All donations will be combined, allowing you access to higher tier donator packs - or something along those lines.
I am against a huge increased proplimit and against disabling the OOC timer.
The increased proplimit will create more lagg, imagine if 20 donators had 20 extra props each, do the math. So an increase is fine, but not a huge one.
Disabling the OOC timer will flood OOC, which is pretty darn annoying.
(Aug 7, 2015, 11:12 AM)Doodleh link Wrote: [ -> ]I am against a huge increased proplimit and against disabling the OOC timer.
The increased proplimit will create more lagg, imagine if 20 donators had 20 extra props each, do the math. So an increase is fine, but not a huge one.
Disabling the OOC timer will flood OOC, which is pretty darn annoying.
if it were to be a 5 prop increase ever perk up e.g 10,15,20 and 25. We are running three SSD's. The servers are more then stable.
Couple ideas:
-More clothes/cars options for higher donators
-Ability to select playermodels (Maybe add more playermodels to give it more of a variety too?)
-Higher salaries for the higher amount of money donated, such as 10-20 = 3x, 25 = 4x.
Not too sure about all of these, but I thought I'd give a few ideas and maybe you'll like one of them.
(Aug 7, 2015, 11:24 AM)Blurr link Wrote: [ -> ]if it were to be a 5 prop increase ever perk up e.g 10,15,20 and 25. We are running three SSD's. The servers are more then stable.
My PC is not run by three SSD's, it is made out of wood and runs on two 9 volt batteries, joking aside, it causes client side lag aswell.
However, A max prop increase of 15 would be fine in my opinion.
(Aug 7, 2015, 11:36 AM)Rule34 link Wrote: [ -> ]-Higher salaries for the higher amount of money donated, such as 10-20 = 3x, 25 = 4x.
No, this would completely obliterate the economy.
Your other ideas are good.
My pc is bad too yet 15 seems fine. I can run the server fine when staff have over 400 props dupes down.
(Aug 7, 2015, 12:05 PM)Blurr link Wrote: [ -> ]My pc is bad too yet 15 seems fine. I can run the server fine when staff have over 400 props dupes down.
Server holds 75 people. At peak, at least 2/5ths of them are donors, probably more once this comes out.
75 / 5 = 15.
15 x 2 = 30.
30 x 50 = 1,500. <- And most likely much much more than that, including certain admin dupes that are over 400 props, plus all the non donors that may have put down 30 prop dupes. Evens out to around 2,200 props?
It would be a disaster. Forget prop increase, or at least add ten instead of 20 or 15. I like all the other ideas except for the salary increase x 4.
Perhaps a percentage off certain items depending on the donation perk?
(Aug 7, 2015, 01:35 PM)GeorgeTheBoy link Wrote: [ -> ]Perhaps a percentage off certain items depending on the donation perk?
Again, Pay2Win (Kinda, elaborate more on how much an item would be compared to its sale). I really like the idea of unlocking new items to purchase depending on which perks you've purchased.
Well, I've thought on it and I like the idea of have a few cosmetic/aesthetic perks within each donation level, amongst other things. In the £10 or £15 perk we could have military-themed aesthetics, including the CSS CT models, or some new CSGO models, and of course, the few female models that I intend to add today. While we're low on high-quality female models and don't want to restrict everything good for females behind a pay wall, these are highly military-themed and as such are suitable for specific RPs or President/VP models only. Rather than locking it to the President, however, it'd be best to allow freedom as to who wears it and simply note down in the description to kindly use it for appropriate role-plays. What do you think?