The Simple Truth

[Mr President]

Right now our economy is a disaster. We have members with trillions. Our Vbookie is bugging out cause way to much money is passing through it and it wasn't made for that much. Our economy has a total of:

Money Circulation Amount : 5,185,958,767,215

in it.. That's absurd for a community this size. Credits have pretty much become worthless in value as everyone has them and even when they spend them they earn it right back due to interest rates. We haven't had anyone purchase a premium account or credits in months, and last month i floated the game a loan to keep us going for another month and i assume i will have to do the same this month. So things have to change. Here is what I am purposing.

1) All credits for each member be set to 100 and we start completely over.
2) All interest rates drop way down.
3) Vbookie has a max bet of 100,000
4) All arcade and casino games cost and winnings are set appropriately.
5) I have a log of those who have spent real money for credits. I will swap that out for premium accounts. There were only a few who purchased them so it's not like we will be giving away a lot of free premiums.

Those are the 5 main ones I can think of right now that will fix the credit problem. I know some of you will be upset over the credit reset but I wouldn't do it unless it was really really necessary. Take a look HERE and you'll see that our poverty rating is 100%. Tons of our members have trillions and nothing to spend them on. The credits are basically pointless right now and serve no purpose. So either we reset it and start new and do it all right this time, or we dump the whole credit thing altogether.

Now for the Premium problem.. We need to make premium accounts worth something again. Granted the main purpose of a premium is to support the game, but it's nice to get things along with your money. I really don't have any idea's for this. The only thing I can think of is those who purchase a premium will get free CTF passes till it runs out. But that's not really a big deal so we need to come up with more logical ideas that will give a little bang for our buck.

I really need some ideas please. The game is in great shape and we are gaining new members each set. Now we just need to get things in order to keep us secure. So whatever idea you have, please post them. And please only post serious ideas.

thanks

[Soviet Russia]

I agree them all

[pron]

Just throwing out ideas here.

Give Premium Users one free Obtain State Info op per day that will have a 100% success rate and no turn usage.

Give them access to a special unit that does something funky ( like missiles or missile defense system).

Give them access to war attacks outside of war

Give them a larger bank

Update their scores list every 10 mins instead of 20. Or everytime they hit the refresh button.

Give them another 100 stored turns, to a max of 200.

Send them love emails every month based on their turn usage.

Umm...all I got off the top of my head for now.

[Max Logan]

Just throwing out ideas here.

Give Premium Users one free Obtain State Info op per day that will have a 100% success rate and no turn usage.

Give them access to a special unit that does something funky ( like missiles or missile defense system).

Give them access to war attacks outside of war

Give them a larger bank

Update their scores list every 10 mins instead of 20. Or everytime they hit the refresh button.

Give them another 100 stored turns, to a max of 200.

Send them love emails every month based on their turn usage.

Umm...all I got off the top of my head for now.

no

no

no

no

no

no

yes

[pron]

no

no

no

no

no

no

yes

Great reasoning. Appreciate your contribution to this thread.

[Crimson Shadow]

I'm not really a fan of giving ingame benefits (extra turns/bigger bank/etc). It isn't really fair to give extras to people who have a prem, when some people can't afford one.

But we do need to do something in order to boost sales of prems. I'm not really sure what we could do that doesn't impact gameplay drastically, but I will try to think of something this weekend.

[pron]

I don't think bigger bank will affect too much right now, as indy is the main strat and with the LG formula, stockers don't do well in netting.

[Crimson Shadow]

2 of the top 5 players last set were stockers. So, I'm pretty sure they are strong.

[boostah]

put the landgrab calculator in game for them.

Stuff like that. It makes it more convienent (dont know the spelling ), but not an advantage. It will just take those who dont have one more effort (and as widely known: all americans are fat lazy bastards )

Think giving real advantages is just ridiculous.

[Cemetary]

2 of the top 5 players last set were stockers. So, I'm pretty sure they are strong.

i dont think you can really use last set as a "stocking is powerful" point

most of the good netters got suicided including 4 from one nation i suicided, none of which were stockers