We will be adding membership levels to the new version of the game. right now we are thinking about 4 levels of membership.
1) Free
2) Bronze = $1.00 per month
3) Silver = $3.00 per month
4) Gold = $5.00 per month
We feel that this little amount of money can keep this site running and being updated. With each level more options in the game and site will be available. It will not necessarily give paying members a huge advantage over the free players, but these sites do cost money to run. That being said .....
I am thinking about allowing like gold members the ability to open their own shops in a town. Once they can master Blacksmith for example... the new store owner could create weapons and sell them in the game from their own shop.
This is just a rough idea to implement in the future.. What are your thoughts?
Servers, bandwidth and programming cost too much to offer it for free. Banners wont support a site alone and we only had 1 person donate any money since I announced donations. Bottom-line is if the site cant pay for itself the the site goes down. That's why so many free sites are gone now or come and go.
We feel that the prices for membership will be very reasonable for most people.
As we grow will will offer more things for members. For now we plan on hidden towns, special items, larger daily bonus.. etc...
Is it really necessary to make three levels of membership, though?
If you wanna do it that way, there might be a way to mix that with the game itself. Such as the Bronze Membership being available from day 1, level 1. Silver could be attainable once your character reaches some set level, 25 or 30 or something, and then Gold once he/she reaches 60. It may look like a hindrance, because initially no one could be a gold member. But I believe it would give players more of a sense of accomplishment and goal-orientation. It's more geared towards making it so higher-level, older players want to stay playing rather than attracting new players, truthfully. But it could also give new players something to work for rather than just immediately gaining full membership and all the benefits within.
Benefits from Bronze membership could be little things, such as more frequent monster sightings or certain priorities. Silver membership could open up new skills, trainable at certain guilds or temples which would be unavailable to those without once you reach the required level. And gold would open up all the awesome features planned, whatever they may be.
I think, unless something like that is incorporated, it wouldn't be good to have levels of membership available.
Beginning Players would be like peasants, then build in rank to give a since of accomplishment. We might also Tye this to user points ( earning points for posting in forums, participating in our community.
The terms bronze, silver and gold were just membership (paying levels) terms. We may or may not use these terms, but there are here for lack of a better word.
looking to ad like 1 hidden town for the lower level, special rates in that bank, resting areas, different games to play in the pub, special weapons to buy.
The silver level you have 2 hidden towns and also be able to go to the bronze town. and so on and so forth....
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