(Credit / Voting) Referral System

My wife and I were talking about a way to bring more people into the game because we like it here.

She suggested for a referral system to be implemented which we recalled from back in the 2moons days.

It would work as follows:

- You refer a friend and he/she will get a link to create an account or it doesn't have to be a link, it could just be an extra field on the account creation to name the aco****/character name of the person who referred them.

- Your friend plays the game and levels up to 55 (to prevent people from abusing).

- Once the character hits 55, have the system automatically reward the person who referred them.

Rewards:

- The first thing I'd say is whatever Carl would like to give away as a reward, however among my suggestion it would be Credits per account referred or it could be an item that does not drop in-game.

I think this would motivate current players to refer friends and bring more people to play the game. The server should get more players which also means more votes and possible more revenue for the server.

Please vote and lets see what the community think of this.

 

Actually leveling a toon to 55 is quite easy. So this suggestion is still ABUSABLE... credits are definitely a NO NO, Account-binding rewards would be great. Costumes, A no, coz it can be remodeled to an npc item and traded. hmmm I dunno what good reward can be.

My opinion is no for this suggestion.

 

It is easy to level up to 55 :S

I mean yeah if you go and grind your way to 55 without vip you ll spend lots of time. But if you know what quests to do,you ll get there in 3-5 hours...

 

I like the idea really much, but it's hard for it to happen here.

As jchernandez said, it's easy to abuse the referral system, since leveling to 55 in gamez takes around 3 days worst. It would work better if it was IP-based rather than account-based alone.


However, this thing will work really well in Crystal imo.

 

Yes, and those people who knows how to level fast will be tempted to abuse it somehow. Rewards rewards, temptations temptations, abuse abuse...

Of course, I am not saying this suggestion is not good for new gamers, but it is abusable.

actually I messaged Ashtar asking for items for me and for my friends that will play on crystal. I said it would be a good thing to set goals for the newbies, the eagerness to wear good looking costumes/weaps/gears will increase their interest into playing. Although I am aware that this guys are really addicts to MMOs, what I am worried about is if they encounter bugs or something really crappy in-game(like unbalanced pvp, reason why I decided to endorse crystal to them)

 

those who voted yes, is greedy.

i vote for no

 

I don't really know about that.

She certainly can't go out of her way and start giving stuff to random people, y' know.

 

She can do it if its her own items

 

well it was worth a try, almost like a suggestion. But wrong of me to sneaky PM it. Had no taste of making a fail suggestion thread at the moment, fail message would be more likely that time.

not really

I voted no too

 

its a "NO"............in same ways it can be abuse.....its toO easy to get lvl55. some peoples wants that too much would make hacks to get them kill mobs easily...and make some fake name. ^^ so its a big "NO"

 

Voted yes, might be good for actual newbies.


I got enough lol, full plate ABG is good for me.

 

i vote for NO
try to think for negative side first pls.
this system will lead people to do multiple accounting,then lead em for do multy voting which against the rule.
and how dare are u try to suggest this to adm,im sure they will not realize "multy voting and give em reward" cause it already state clearly on forum rules.
/big LoL

 

ur opinion is welcome,

but think of the thread starter too, it was his freedom to suggest. No harm done, its not like its gonna be implemented right away when people post on suggestions.

 

Thanks to those that have replied to the thread as your opinions are more than welcome and it also helps me think of other ways to help bring more people to the server.

As jchernandez stated it's just a suggestion and I'm just looking for a way to help the server get more players and more votes (legit votes).

There are other ways to get a referral system going besides having player level a character to 55 and you're welcome to post any ideas if you have any at all. (hint to WindWalk)

Now I know what you are all saying about getting a character to 55 but the way I see it is is like this this.

If you give players say 10-20 credits per referral, if someone wanted to abuse the system they would spend 3-4 hours level one character for 20 credits tops, 10 at the least, for them to get 60 credits which is what you'd make in 12 hours (at 20 credits per referral), they'd need to spend about the same amount time as they do when they wait for the voting cooldown and if they did abuse and voted their own account at the same time, it'd be no different than when you get double the credits when it's at 20 per vote. (you make 100 every 12 hours).

I'm not talking about a massive amount of credits per referral, a referral is meant to be an incentive to refer someone to play, not big rewards.

 

My vote is also "No" for this. Leveling a toon is far to easy and this although a nice idea would be abused so much by current players of this server. :sick:

 

It's not for being greedy...ofcourse Carl could modify this idea by adding IP limitations, it's not something that has to EXACTLY like that. And he doesn't even have to give that big of an incentive...this idea is for GETTING people to try out the game. How? Well we don't have advertisements everywhere...word of mouth is just as good!

 

i aggree a bit with your idea but not 55...

lets say 5 mufflers for the 3 months they stayed active.

 

or 1 muffler for a successful referal who reached 55 and stayed active for at least 3 months.