If I may input about races (and donations),

Started by Spades_Neil, 27-05-2012

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Spades_Neil

In most of our RP, the core focus is around humans. Mutants, animals, mythical beings, were all options for donators. That was fine because the focus was mainly around humans.

Such is not the case in Star Wars.


Star Wars has a very rich variety of sentient alien beings. It would be a really good idea if we did something differently for a change, in that we gave a selection of different non-human races that every player could start as, without being a donator, so as to deeply enrich the roleplay. Unlike non-human races in our other servers, there's no distinct advantage that needs to be policed by donating.

Provided not all should be open obviously, as we need something to market to players to keep a small income of donation cash to help HGN pay for its bills. However, there's a ton of stuff otherwise at our disposal that we should utilize. Droids, Space Pirates, Mercenaries and Bounty Hunters, those could still be donors. Yet, the day-to-day races that we meet in the galactic community should be open to all players so long as we have the resources to add them to the game (such as models).



Anyway there's my thoughts on the matter. I'd like your opinions.

Tom

Force sensitive and Mandalorians as donor flags is a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very bad idea.
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Oh boy.
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Das_Uberman

Quote from: Tom on 27-05-2012
Force sensitive and Mandalorians as donor flags is a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very bad idea.

Agreed, they should have applications, very strict applications.

Jedi/Siths themselves should either be event only, or restricted to highly trusted people, with a max of 1-2 on each side.

Steven :D



Spades_Neil

Quote from: Tom on 27-05-2012
Force sensitive and Mandalorians as donor flags is a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very bad idea.

I'll have to agree with that. Made the edit.

RG4ORDR

Quote from: Spades_Neil on 27-05-2012
Quote from: Tom on 27-05-2012
Force sensitive and Mandalorians as donor flags is a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very bad idea.

I'll have to agree with that. Made the edit.
How about no special donation flags for Star Wars?
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nKe

Just make experienced, veteran, etc. flags for donors.
And ofc add the usual wildlife flags.

Gonztah

Imo no race should be donator only. Rarer races could be controlled with apps. As for the donations they could be like in SRP (Merc etc.)

Spades_Neil

Quote from: Gonztah on 28-05-2012
Imo no race should be donator only. Rarer races could be controlled with apps. As for the donations they could be like in SRP (Merc etc.)

That's what I was thinking, in a nutshell.

Star Wars is too diverse a universe to just limit it to humans.

Recreas

Quote from: Spades_Neil on 28-05-2012
Quote from: Gonztah on 28-05-2012
Imo no race should be donator only. Rarer races could be controlled with apps. As for the donations they could be like in SRP (Merc etc.)

That's what I was thinking, in a nutshell.

Star Wars is too diverse a universe to just limit it to humans.

Agreed, it would be odd to only see Humans, though what about making some standard races free to choose and others not, for example Botians and Chiss, Twi'lek could be free for all to pick but Wookie's are rarer (They are after almost being wiped out by the empire.)
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RG4ORDR

Quote from: Recreas on 31-05-2012
Quote from: Spades_Neil on 28-05-2012
Quote from: Gonztah on 28-05-2012
Imo no race should be donator only. Rarer races could be controlled with apps. As for the donations they could be like in SRP (Merc etc.)

That's what I was thinking, in a nutshell.

Star Wars is too diverse a universe to just limit it to humans.

Agreed, it would be odd to only see Humans, though what about making some standard races free to choose and others not, for example Botians and Chiss, Twi'lek could be free for all to pick but Wookie's are rarer (They are after almost being wiped out by the empire.)
Races such as Wookies,Transdoshians,Killiks, or something along the lines of that should have atleast 2 admin authorizations for it. Same goes along for people being being mercs,bounty hunters and Mandalorians. And Recreas what's a Botian?
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Ragolution

While this is all nice and all.
Peace, free love and burgers for everyone...

>>Bothan

The question is if every race is application-only...

How does Silver make money to keep the server up?


P.S.  - Can we get rid of the autoplay, please? It's... REALLY annoying regardless of what's being played.

RG4ORDR

Quote from: Ragolution on 31-05-2012
While this is all nice and all.
Peace, free love and burgers for everyone...

>>Bothan

The question is if every race is application-only...

How does Silver make money to keep the server up?


P.S.  - Can we get rid of the autoplay, please? It's... REALLY annoying regardless of what's being played.
Ask for general donations? It's not hard really, honestly the special flags to people who donate on ANY RP severs is plain stupid because it gives some players an advantage over other such as SRP donate 20$ get a Stalker suit and weapons.
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Thanatos

What would you say about the Miraluka? Or would you not consider that race even near our location?

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Ragolution

Quote from: Thanatos on 31-05-2012
What would you say about the Miraluka? Or would you not consider that race even near our location?

They're near-human.
Near-human aliens are pretty redundant/silly/trivial.

Tom

Quote from: RG4ORDR on 31-05-2012
Quote from: Ragolution on 31-05-2012
While this is all nice and all.
Peace, free love and burgers for everyone...

>>Bothan

The question is if every race is application-only...

How does Silver make money to keep the server up?


P.S.  - Can we get rid of the autoplay, please? It's... REALLY annoying regardless of what's being played.
Ask for general donations? It's not hard really, honestly the special flags to people who donate on ANY RP severs is plain stupid because it gives some players an advantage over other such as SRP donate 20$ get a Stalker suit and weapons.

No one VERY VERY FEW people donate cause they like a server.
Quote from: TheAndyShandy on 05-12-2013
Oh boy.
Strap yourselves in, it's time for the great 'obligatory' SRP resurrection of 2013/14/15/16/22

Spades_Neil

Here's my idea:

Pick something else to make them donate for.

RG4ORDR

Quote from: Thanatos on 31-05-2012
What would you say about the Miraluka? Or would you not consider that race even near our location?
Eh, you're talking about a race that's entirely force sensitive.
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Gonztah

Just make stuff like experienced mercenary, experienced pirate etc. If you make races donator only it's just... blah.

Recreas

Quote from: Gonztah on 31-05-2012
Just make stuff like experienced mercenary, experienced pirate etc. If you make races donator only it's just... blah.

Well, like said before, Wildlife or near wild would simply be a good idea to put up as donator status. Who doesn't want to play as an Ewok O_o....
But about experienced mecenary... it's again, pay 20 bucks and get suited up. The reason why most people donate for SRP and FORP is because they
can play bloodsuckers, Mutants and etc. A special creature with special powers, there's the problem. When it comes to Star Wars, those creatures play a took big role to just assign to anyone with some spare cash in his/her wallet.
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Ragolution

Quote from: Tom on 31-05-2012
Quote from: RG4ORDR on 31-05-2012
Quote from: Ragolution on 31-05-2012
While this is all nice and all.
Peace, free love and burgers for everyone...

>>Bothan

The question is if every race is application-only...

How does Silver make money to keep the server up?


P.S.  - Can we get rid of the autoplay, please? It's... REALLY annoying regardless of what's being played.
Ask for general donations? It's not hard really, honestly the special flags to people who donate on ANY RP severs is plain stupid because it gives some players an advantage over other such as SRP donate 20$ get a Stalker suit and weapons.

No one VERY VERY FEW people donate cause they like a server.

No kidding. Aceon hasn't gotten a signle donation EVER. FUCKING EVER. NOT ONE.

Lucky Pig

Quote from: Recreas on 31-05-2012
Quote from: Gonztah on 31-05-2012
Just make stuff like experienced mercenary, experienced pirate etc. If you make races donator only it's just... blah.

Well, like said before, Wildlife or near wild would simply be a good idea to put up as donator status. Who doesn't want to play as an Ewok O_o....
But about experienced mecenary... it's again, pay 20 bucks and get suited up. The reason why most people donate for SRP and FORP is because they
can play bloodsuckers, Mutants and etc. A special creature with special powers, there's the problem. When it comes to Star Wars, those creatures play a took big role to just assign to anyone with some spare cash in his/her wallet.

Well you could always make some of the powerful ones donator only and also you'd have to apply. This application could be done before donating so you would know if you can use the species you donate for, or something similiar.

Spades_Neil

Quote from: Ragolution on 01-06-2012
Quote from: Tom on 31-05-2012
Quote from: RG4ORDR on 31-05-2012
Quote from: Ragolution on 31-05-2012
While this is all nice and all.
Peace, free love and burgers for everyone...

>>Bothan

The question is if every race is application-only...

How does Silver make money to keep the server up?


P.S.  - Can we get rid of the autoplay, please? It's... REALLY annoying regardless of what's being played.
Ask for general donations? It's not hard really, honestly the special flags to people who donate on ANY RP severs is plain stupid because it gives some players an advantage over other such as SRP donate 20$ get a Stalker suit and weapons.

No one VERY VERY FEW people donate cause they like a server.

No kidding. Aceon hasn't gotten a signle donation EVER. FUCKING EVER. NOT ONE.

To be blunt there's also no indication that the server needs donations at all. I used to be part of a nice Flight Sim community that needed like a few hundred bucks for their website because they didn't want any more annoying adverts. In a matter of days they met their goal amount.

Then, flight sim servers like the 104th Squadron run on donations too but without any sort of benefits for donors. It's a matter of communicating it, in my opinion. Also not looking corrupt and wasting donor money or seeming money hungry helps too.

Ragolution

Quote from: Spades_Neil on 01-06-2012
Quote from: Ragolution on 01-06-2012
Quote from: Tom on 31-05-2012
Quote from: RG4ORDR on 31-05-2012
Quote from: Ragolution on 31-05-2012
While this is all nice and all.
Peace, free love and burgers for everyone...

>>Bothan

The question is if every race is application-only...

How does Silver make money to keep the server up?


P.S.  - Can we get rid of the autoplay, please? It's... REALLY annoying regardless of what's being played.
Ask for general donations? It's not hard really, honestly the special flags to people who donate on ANY RP severs is plain stupid because it gives some players an advantage over other such as SRP donate 20$ get a Stalker suit and weapons.

No one VERY VERY FEW people donate cause they like a server.

No kidding. Aceon hasn't gotten a signle donation EVER. FUCKING EVER. NOT ONE.

To be blunt there's also no indication that the server needs donations at all. I used to be part of a nice Flight Sim community that needed like a few hundred bucks for their website because they didn't want any more annoying adverts. In a matter of days they met their goal amount.

Then, flight sim servers like the 104th Squadron run on donations too but without any sort of benefits for donors. It's a matter of communicating it, in my opinion. Also not looking corrupt and wasting donor money or seeming money hungry helps too.

Apparently people don't know how poor silver is.

You guys made him not go to college. (or some shit)
I hope you're happy.

Silver Knight

Quote from: Ragolution on 01-06-2012
Quote from: Tom on 31-05-2012
Quote from: RG4ORDR on 31-05-2012
Quote from: Ragolution on 31-05-2012
While this is all nice and all.
Peace, free love and burgers for everyone...

>>Bothan

The question is if every race is application-only...

How does Silver make money to keep the server up?


P.S.  - Can we get rid of the autoplay, please? It's... REALLY annoying regardless of what's being played.
Ask for general donations? It's not hard really, honestly the special flags to people who donate on ANY RP severs is plain stupid because it gives some players an advantage over other such as SRP donate 20$ get a Stalker suit and weapons.

No one VERY VERY FEW people donate cause they like a server.

No kidding. Aceon hasn't gotten a signle donation EVER. FUCKING EVER. NOT ONE.

They did, 20 bucks.

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