REVOLUTION!(system change thread)

[Kazuya]

I think something that would be neat is to start rewarding more (or differently) for posting, and if we're going to keep items and the like relevant to the game, maybe make zeni much easier to obtain.

One of the great things that I miss about the old system (the one we had before VJ completely clusterfucked all of us), is that it mattered when we bought stuff. Everybody loves zeni, too. What I am thinking, is that since there is a way to reward XP for such and such amount of words, why not have such a system in place to earn zeni automatically? And for that matter, why not have something that goes along with that system of XP and Zeni to go towards "levelling up"?

Example:

Let's say someone makes a 1000 word post. They earn (and just bullshitting here with the formula) approx 5 xp. In addition, they also earn around 50zn, which seems pretty reasonable to me for a 1k word post. It works out to about 5zn per 100 words.

Let's say that our levels will go all the way up to 100, and scale by 15% each level from level 1, and at each 10 levels, it adds an extra 1000/5000/10000 etc. at the 10/20/30th level. So, if we start out at 0 at level 1, and it takes 1000 words to reach level 2, that post will get us to level 2. Level three will add that 1000 words plus 15%, so to get to level 3, we'd have to post 1150 words. Level 4 will be 1322.5 (can be rounded up to 1323, decimals wouldn't make sense in this type of system.). so fourth and so on.

With levels, we can earn certain perks, gear, weapons or able to train for certain techniques. Obviously with this, the higher the level, the better shit you get, and more shit you can train for opens up. I think with something like this, it will give us more...what's the word I'm looking for...incentive? to work towards these goals. More incentive = maybe more activity. More activity = happy chubbs soul sucking monster.


EDIT: Reading Sig's stuff up there, maybe we can do something more with that awards thing? it's been stagnant from what I can tell since the Invasion saga, which was months ago. Maybe we can do more novelty awards, like "Such and such forum whore award" or something. Or "Highest poster" or some shit. some kind of community recognitions to make members feel like their more involved would be nice.