7 years ago
Fairer Compensation
I don’t especially appreciate people that unnecessarily moan at good gestures, but on this occasion I am going to become one of them, but for what I believe to be a good and valid reason (albeit it will no doubt fall on deaf ears!!).
The compensation package is a nice thought, and on that basis alone marginally better than nothing. But how does it actually compensate players in my position, when I have been as equally inconvenienced as those that will benefit?
To explain, I am one of many that fund much less now on old servers, if at all, but am sitting on and wish to retain high repair levels from yesteryear in case of conflict (so I can contribute on old Worlds if required, without further funding). So how exactly does this compensation benefit me at all?
This is what your gift looks like for me from a Repair capacity perspective: http://prntscr.com/k8jy5x, and equally as futile on the CP capacity front: http://prntscr.com/k8j8gj
Basically you add it on in what is a PR stunt, and for me it just runs down and erodes without contributing anything, absolutely of zero benefit!!
So thank you, but for myself and players in the same situation, that have funded on a server but now stopped and maintained their stock levels higher than their current capacities, this is about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
Granted it is great, for example, to the many who (sensibly) have never funded, but utterly useless to player in my situation.
So here’s a radical idea. Why not just 'gift' TA points (i.e. for the value of these compensation packages, maybe x per World played), so that players have the opportunity to spend it in a way that might actually be beneficial to them, rather than this token gesture that is absolutely meaningless to anyone that currently has more CP and/or repair than their current capacities?
And on that note, every day, whilst all non-funding accounts gain extra CP’s and repair time, ‘hoarders’ like me that have historically contributed significantly (financially) to this game, gain no benefit, (and which is only highlighted/emphasised everytime a compensation package is offered up).
How about a sensible and fair concept whereby the free daily allowance sits ‘on top’ of any purchased capacity/stocks, so that everyone gains the same free allowance every day, and former funding players are not penalized for historically contributing financially to your game. Meaning that those with large stocks can still farm there free allowance without eroding their stock of CP/RT, in the exact same way as non-funding players can farm a free amount daily. It is surely just encouraging players not to fund so they do not miss out on the daily free offerings. If you simply make it is the first thing to be used, and the first thing to replenish, it would surely make things much fairer?
So players that have (for example) the standard 100 CP capacity, but have stored and saved 1,000 CP’s, would still get their free daily capacity, and are not penalized for actually paying for the game.
(For clarity I am not anti players that have never funded, they are the smart ones!, just that there situation is the best, most sensible and valid example to compare with).
Anyway just some food for thought, just hope you are not on a diet in that regard.
Regards
Aegelweard442
The compensation package is a nice thought, and on that basis alone marginally better than nothing. But how does it actually compensate players in my position, when I have been as equally inconvenienced as those that will benefit?
To explain, I am one of many that fund much less now on old servers, if at all, but am sitting on and wish to retain high repair levels from yesteryear in case of conflict (so I can contribute on old Worlds if required, without further funding). So how exactly does this compensation benefit me at all?
This is what your gift looks like for me from a Repair capacity perspective: http://prntscr.com/k8jy5x, and equally as futile on the CP capacity front: http://prntscr.com/k8j8gj
Basically you add it on in what is a PR stunt, and for me it just runs down and erodes without contributing anything, absolutely of zero benefit!!
So thank you, but for myself and players in the same situation, that have funded on a server but now stopped and maintained their stock levels higher than their current capacities, this is about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
Granted it is great, for example, to the many who (sensibly) have never funded, but utterly useless to player in my situation.
So here’s a radical idea. Why not just 'gift' TA points (i.e. for the value of these compensation packages, maybe x per World played), so that players have the opportunity to spend it in a way that might actually be beneficial to them, rather than this token gesture that is absolutely meaningless to anyone that currently has more CP and/or repair than their current capacities?
And on that note, every day, whilst all non-funding accounts gain extra CP’s and repair time, ‘hoarders’ like me that have historically contributed significantly (financially) to this game, gain no benefit, (and which is only highlighted/emphasised everytime a compensation package is offered up).
How about a sensible and fair concept whereby the free daily allowance sits ‘on top’ of any purchased capacity/stocks, so that everyone gains the same free allowance every day, and former funding players are not penalized for historically contributing financially to your game. Meaning that those with large stocks can still farm there free allowance without eroding their stock of CP/RT, in the exact same way as non-funding players can farm a free amount daily. It is surely just encouraging players not to fund so they do not miss out on the daily free offerings. If you simply make it is the first thing to be used, and the first thing to replenish, it would surely make things much fairer?
So players that have (for example) the standard 100 CP capacity, but have stored and saved 1,000 CP’s, would still get their free daily capacity, and are not penalized for actually paying for the game.
(For clarity I am not anti players that have never funded, they are the smart ones!, just that there situation is the best, most sensible and valid example to compare with).
Anyway just some food for thought, just hope you are not on a diet in that regard.
Regards
Aegelweard442