Veterans awards system

Hey all,

So it came into my attention that on the Aion EU there will be the feature of the "Veterans awards".

The idea is that there will be some special rewards for the old-school players of this server who has shown and proved their loyalty through the time and that they kept the server alive in-game and its PvP.



How could it work?

Well, let's say that every 2 weeks, players will receive something like a coin or a another reward for being active in game. These coins at the end of the season, each player will be able to redeem them for in-game items.

How could the players prove that they were active?

There could be a NPC were players would register before they enter any PvP zone. The players would just submit their name, race and class and the survey ticket would be sent to the High Council of Gamez.

OR

A survey could be sent out every 12 hours to every player who is online. The player should send the survey ticket back with the info of his:
- IGN
- Race
- Class

This way the Staff would know who is active and who is not. The ones who are online at least 5 days a week, they would be considered veterans after the season end.

How long would the season last?

This really depends. I would suggest to set a season to be 3 months.

Rewards for being active?

Yes, every time the player will submit his survey, he should receive automatically a coin rewards or let's say "Veteran cookie" which could be used in the Season shop.

What about the Season shop?

Nothing fancy such as ABG or other PvP items, but some remodels or titles or maybe medals or candies or scrolls. Make a shop that will appear only at the end of each season and will last for a short period. The Season shop will be different from any special web shop and the purpose of it will be to keep the players active in game.

How about the prices of the Season shop?

The prices will differ from item to item. The best items will need more coins to be spent on them. The expensive items will demand the players to be active longer than just one season. Let's say that I want to buy the "Flaming hat" which will cost 200 coins. It means that I have to be active for 2+ seasons.


It's just a rough plan of an event I have in mind. Typing this at the same time, while I type a business report so I might review it later and improve the former idea.

Cheers~

 

hmm i like it. Its a good way to keep players logged in

One thing that should be added is the fact that they should be online for x amount of time before the survey would come.
Otherwise they just log on - survey - log off.

 

Well, now that you mention it.. Maybe if there would be the NPC where players will submit in-game their surveys, then they'll should submit one when they log in and one when they log out in order to make it fair for all who stay online and play.

The online time counter is kinda problem here

 

They could script the survey to appear after a fixed amount of minutes being in the world.

 

I guess it's possible. Nice idea Maart

 

How does Carl benefit from that?

 

His servers will have stable population. People will find a new reason why to log in every day.

 

Hmm lets see.
if it works he might get more votes. hell even more donations. who knows xD

 

Why would you vote/donate more, because of a feature that requires you to be online? Your argument is rather invalid.

To clarify:
More players online, yes. More donations - not likely.

 

I want abg not coins!

 

My argument makes it less invalid because i said "Might"
But if u wanna go that route.

Give me a good reason why people would donate on this server now lol. and yeah, they still do

 

Well, in order to get more donations, then Carl should add durability meter to the items. Then people will either farm AP or just donate for a new set.

But the point of this suggestion is to keep the population at stable level without seeing people to quit because of the bugs or the lack of the interest for the Gamez features.

 

And then we're back to the original point where Carl doesn't, EVER, implement anything that gains him no personal goods.
What was the last suggestion he bothered applying? The must to be logged in to vote, helping him trace multivoters.

 

Well then the shop must be equipped with some shizzle stuff. most of the people here are greedy hoes and they wouldn't give z crap about some remodel item.
And i recall, MOST. inb4 flame because someone will missread and feel offended.

 

the Zergfest?

 

whaha. i gues u could call that a gamez feature xD

EDIT: its prolly the most unique aswell....

 

Duh.. People, it's just a suggestion in order to keep all of you from QQ'ing that there is no special shops and crap like that.

Besides, the population is dropping down because there is nothing great to offer to the new players and make them stay. Now that we talk about, the old ones leave because of that too.

It's like the rewards that were given during the AP wipe, but with better organization and a better schedule.

 

old people leave because of zergs not because population decreases

 

When there are less people to PvP, they form zerg and they fight as a mass. This is the result of the population's decrease.

 

aion was designed to be a group game (zerg game)

so we can't do anything for it..

if people want to play aion without zergs they have to go to other servers with low population