Extremely Important

[Reijin]

Originally posted by Aqua
3. I assume this is if we applied my suggestion. In which case, you could apply you ever-famous static reward to active staff. I for one have no problem with staff getting some sort of bonus for dealing with all of this shit. Or, you could always just try to talk them down :-P. But I wouldn't think that the staff here, writers that they are, would have a real problem getting their RPs out there. But as i said, I'm open to whatever there... static reward... reward given by admins to their subordinates... however you see fit really.

Ok, let's get to point three.

Not all staff are going to be as active as the members. Members might be insanely active during the next few months in hopes of gaining an edge by that system, and staffers would be busy doing this work regardless. Some staffers, like Bardock, competent writers by large, have issues that do not allow them to regularly be on the computer so a majority of the time they have to choose to either do something staff related, or roleplay, which usually equates to staff stuff first, catch up on all the posts on the board and updates second, then roleplay if you have time. It actually does take a few hours if you are only on in short bursts once a day or so.

Some staffers and members are still having some serious issues losing the old techs. We are considering a reimbursing system that will allow them to possibly gain something to rebuild with.

Of those suggested, I'd like to throw my suggestion out there to see your opinion on it. The ONLY reason I'm not throwing out the many other suggestions is because I don't know if those members want their stuff public yet. I have to actually paraphrase it a bit to avoid giving out some information that I don't believe we've mentioned yet.

"Let's take all the techs out there and assign a value number to them. All members who are still active by the time we do the reset will begin with a number bonus for their activity. Any new people will simply join without this bonus and build from there. A static bonus across the board for the former members that stayed active."

Amending that post I made in the staff forum, I followed up with this:

"Then allow these new members to buy any tech that they can afford using this number bonus they recieve. They then lose what they haven't spent. They may not be able to afford a tech they really want, but everyone would have equal opportunity to choose from any tech within that limit to keep balance while rewarding them with the access during character creation."

Now to amend it with what I'm reading currently...

Here's something I want your opinion on to see if this will cure your ills, and then after you post I would like to see member opinions on this.

NEW VERSION:

"Let's take all the techs out there and assign a value number to them. All members who are still active by the time we do the reset will begin with a number bonus based proportionally on their activity, using the new reward system to gauge this as if it had been implemented right now. All new joinees will be devoid of this bonus and will simply build their characters from there.

We then allow these new members to buy any tech on our list that they can afford using this number bonus they recieve. They may only choose one of these techs and it will be considered an innate trait that they may include into their character's creation, such as race or history. They then lose any points that have not been spent in this manner.

They may not be able to afford the exact tech that they wish, and powerups will be exempt from this list for balance reasons, but that depends solely on their activity from the starting date forward. Everyone will have begin the game at a level that is based on their activity to this point.

Staff members will begin with a number bonus to be chosen at a later time that will allow them to remain competitive with the members for their help in bringing this project to life.

Essentially, on a list of techs, how active you are from now until the reset will determine how powerful of a tech you may choose for your one starting tech to build your character on."

How does that sound to you?

(After Aqua replies, I will post saying if I am ready to hear other member responses to this, but for now, please let me get a feel from just Aqua)