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

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yes

[pron]

no

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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.

[MAGGIO]

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.

THIS IS BULLCRAP! Quite a few adults around here. Throw $20 on it and act like you give a crap. I got you Mr. P this friday! How about its a pretty cheap game to play so the dues are due.



Oh and btw make prem affect in game pros. what do you have to loose? Give a shot... its not like your making any money.... matter fact sounds like your loosing. plenty of games have in game pros for prem. Im just saying, prems are worthless with out it. only reason why i even throw in money is just to help out and YOU WOULD THINK many others do the same for the same.

Maybe we stop calling it premium account and start calling is subscription. $5.00 a month gives you unlimted what ever. unlimited arcade, unlimited PMs, all forum stuff unlimited. Special Bling Bling under user name (not dull arse gray)

Maybe limit some things in game like times you can sell on market per day or some other stuff but subscribers get unlimted. i dunno get creative and stop relooking at things that never flew before, and start pushing the limits regardless of opinions. fact is if there was a choice of a few "incomfortable changes" or NO GAME AT ALL, i think we both know the answer.

[jkl9926]

well im still kinda newly back to the game and had just kept forgetting to buy a prem but i always had one in WoW and that was when i was 12-13 so i forked over the money so atleast i can contribute. and i mean tbh all of us can afford to pay up atleast 5 bucks a month i dont suggest doing it like that cause it scares off new members but those who have played for awhile should be willing to do so.

[Missionary]

ingame benifits need to be used, so many other gaes give ingame benifits for purchase of the equivenlant to our prem account. somethings would hardly make much of a difference. coz lets be honest, everyone who comes to this site comes to play the game. askin people to pay for a prem account which gives them no ingame benifits seems abit stupid.

the bank one needs to be done imo
update "scores list" quicker is a good one
longer GE aswel
extra nation jumps
change name on forums
unlimited arcade usage (or say 25-30 free plays a day)
CTF free entry

why not say you have to have a prem account to create a nation??

[KelpKris]

why not say you have to have a prem account to create a nation??

This reminded me one thing that actually bothers me when my nation is being automatically created. It's that I have to destroy/disband the nation if I want change the tax and thus the nations that are being created a few days before the round starts can also change the tax second time a few days earlier, unless I disband my nation too.