A Couple of Suggestions..

Hey everyone!

I apologize in advance if these suggestions have already been brought up or are in the works. I've been thinking of these ideas for a couple of days now, and I feel like they could really help the server out in terms of community, support and bringing in new players.

1) Recruit a Friend. This would be a fairly simple implementation, I imagine. Simply have a field during registration to link a character as a referal to give either the referrer or both the referrer and new player some in game bonuses. For example, if a new player said that player A referred them to the game, player A might gain some sort of token that they could exchange for prizes upon the new player reaching certain milestones (let's say level 30, 70, 120, etc for example.)

Prizes for the veteran user could be things like a 5k NX voucher, a chair, or some scrolls. The new player might be awarded with an increased exp amount for a short period of time or something minimal but useful to engage the user.

Not only would this encourage new players to start, but would also give incentive for existing players to help welcome newbies.

2) Donation bar exp event. This suggestion would be one that would benefit the players and the staff alike. In addition to the donor cash, I was thinking it wouldn't be a terrible idea to have a system where once a specific donor amount has been raised per period, a 2x EXP/DROP event would occur globally for the server for a few hours. In order to prevent abuse, the threshold should most likely be set high, but obtainable. The total for the period, as well as or instead, the remaining amount. Think of something like those "donation thermometers" (like this: http://images.clipartpanda.com/fund...l-thermometer-text-written-badge-31483461.jpg) It is important to note that this event would be global, meaning that the entire server would benefit from it, regardless of if they donated or not. On top of that, this is simply an extra insentive on top of the already existing donor cash; it would not replace it.

For example:

Donation Threshold 250‎€
Players donate 5€, 10€, etc over a period of time
Once the threshold of 250€ has been met, a 2X EXP/DROP event is announced for a convenient time for the server.
Once the event has concluded, the threshold is reset, and the next 2x EXP/DROP event will happen once that threshold is met again.

I believe this extra incentive would encourage more users to donate, thus allowing the providers to do more with the server.

Thanks for reading!

 

For 1, yes I agree with you. There would have to be some sort of system in place to prevent abuse, but it all really depends on if the rewards are worth the trouble. The rewards should be nice, but if it results in what you've said, then they would need to be toned down for sure.

For 2, it really depends on how you see it, speaking realistically, it's a pretty easy thing to implement that would definitely be appreciated by the users and they people paying for the servers. It really doesn't have a downside given that the threshold is high enough as to not spark a permanent 2x event.

 

Done!

Kimberly I can appreciate that point of view. However, I would consider thinking of it as less of a sell out and more of an additional incentive, which is why I suggested toying with the threshold. Given a high enough threshold, people most likely wouldn't be donating for the 2x event, but rather to either help out the server or get Donor NX, as they do now. I was thinking a threshold that would match the current amount of donations over a 2~3 month period.