Incentive for donation: p99 online store

[Bones]

Lol good shit Bayleo
I agree, too. Devs already stated they will NEVER give in game items for any reason.
Also, to whoever said they took out the masks/stones too early, they didn't. Sorry you got here too late.
I wouldn't mind something like a Sir/Lady title either.
Although I honestly would prefer a suffix title to a prefix one. Something like Bones the "___" instead of Sir Bones which just sounds gay to me :P

[Zithax]

I also had another idea to throw in, have the dev's compile a list of known bugs and let people pay tokens to boost an issue they want fixed faster to the top. enough people donate the issue gets fixed faster

[Spud]

Originally Posted by mgellan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Can we get a free armor dye job for a donation? Not game changing but I wouldn't mind changing my goofy orange bronze to snazzy black or even an Iron Man red and yellow [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Pretty sure the #dye command in eqemu could be scripted to make it easy for GMs to do or create an NPC and update the perl script with toon names....

Regards,
Mg

I dont understand armor dye at all.

The only way to tell whether or not someone has good gear or not is by the color of the armor and what weapons they are holding. Theres only 4 types of armor per race everything else is just a different color variation. Green chainmail = mid level ranger, light blue plate = planar paladin. How do you tell who is rocking ivy etched and who has green dyed chainmail?? Is it really ivy etched or did the guy just donate $10 and dyed is armor? is he even a ranger?

I quit when this stupid stuff like this was implemented so i dont even know how it worked

Originally Posted by bionicbadger [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Give everyone that hasn't donated the prefix "Cheap Bastard" to their in game characters

lol.

[KilyenaMage]

For God's sake....NO ARMOR DYES PLEASE.

If I see people running around in neon green / pink outfits everywhere I'm gonna be REALLLYYYYYYYYYY pissed off.

[Tallenn]

I am against anything in game. Smacks too much of Smed cash to me.

I really like the T-shirt idea, though! Baseball caps would be cool too.

[Spud]

Im for something simple like the Lord/Lady thing.

Its nothing crazy but you can tell who donates and whose a cheap bastard. Or you can tell who just joined the server and who didnt.

Or we can just go with bionicbadger's idea and label everyone with the "cheap bastard" which you can only have removed when you donate 'X' amount of dollars.

Same idea lol

[Xumosa]

Originally Posted by Spud [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Im for something simple like the Lord/Lady thing.

Its nothing crazy but you can tell who donates and whose a cheap bastard. Or you can tell who just joined the server and who didnt.

Or we can just go with bionicbadger's idea and label everyone with the "cheap bastard" which you can only have removed when you donate 'X' amount of dollars.

Same idea lol

yeah id imagine the title idea would be cool...untill almost every lvl 50 you see is running around with the same title...then it kind of looses its cool right away

[JaVeDK]

Originally Posted by Xumosa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

yeah id imagine the title idea would be cool...untill almost every lvl 50 you see is running around with the same title...then it kind of looses its cool right away

Agreed. Titles were special back in original EQ. Few had them, and whenever you saw someone with a title, you were awed and tended to remember them.

Due to legal issues I'm against any kind of in-game rewards, but in principle I'm all for rewarding those who donate. Board titles/privileges or points that can be used for a discount to buy real merchandise in an online store would be awesome.

[jilena]

Even titles and other such in game I think is a bit lame and will encourage the "buying your way into coolness" attitude. I think selling something with part of the money going to fund the server, or maybe holding contests outside the game would work good, if someone has to have a LOOK AT ME I DONATED thing going maybe something on the forums...

gamerswithjobs for instance does an annual donation drive, typically it works like this:

1.) if you donate over X amount (like 10$ or something) you get entered into a contest to win X video game merchandise
2.) if you donate you get a nifty little icon next to your name on the forums that upgrades each year you donate, like year one might be a giant dildo, year two you upgrade to a cheeseburger, year three you get a platinum grill, year four you get some gold chains, etc etc You can't buy ahead so if you want the coolest icon you have to donate every year.

*shrug*

Anything more than that or selling merchandise is lame and cheapens the game.

[Chucck]

You people do get the actual concept in "DONATING", right!? Its called a donation, you give and you don't get anything back. Anything else would be considered buying. You would be buying said titles, items, tokens. There will never be anything ever sold for real life money(even if you still try to argue its for donating) ingame due to legal reasons. You want a reward for your donation(once again, defeating the actual purpose)? You get one everytime your allowed to log into THEIR(not ours) server and get to play on the game they created, and it gets to remain constant and functional.

Yes I have donated, no I don't want anything other then rogean not to go into debt and have to cancel the server. All this other crap is what ruined EQ,EQ2, UO etc.