Money Making Ideas

[royalblue]

Or you could just put watermelons in the shop.

Lopdo-autographed watermelons?

[Ratburntro44]

Nope. Just watermelons.

[royalblue]

Nope. Just watermelons.

5 circles and 3 double circles?

[Ratburntro44]

Nope. Just watermelons.

5 circles and 3 double circles?

Those can come later.

[canag0d]

Been thinking of an idea.

Create a new form of currency which u can buy with real money & shards (but relatively expensive with shards to motivate people to spend $). Let's call it "Ladder Shards" for now.

With this new form of currency will also be a new game type called "VW Ladder" or something along those lines. The only way you can play or enter a room of this type is if you have enough Ladder shards... Lets say 10 per game. There would be a limit of say 3 or 5 ladder games per day per player.

Then players can play like a normal ladder system. The benefit to this is that you would weed out alot of trolls, and non serious players because of the pay element. This would create a relatively easy to monitor competitive system for existing VW members to compete in, while motivating new players to get better and possibly become spenders. From my experience, competition is the #1 reason people spend on free to play games. I know I would be glad to contribute to something like this.

Additionally, we would have a few trusted members of the community be "ladder mods". I know cheating/trolls would already be at a minimum, because of the pay element, but for that added level of protection. They would periodically spectate ladder games, and make decisions and rulings about ladder issues, limiting the work someone like Lopdo would have to do. But, on a more positive note, these mods would also reward good behavior, politeness, friendliness, and generally nice things. They could reward players when they see acts of kindness and encourage a good gaming environment that is competitive, but also fun.

Well, I doubt this would happen, it may be too much work. However it would be cool

P.S. I will probably be starting a ladder league of my own soon

[royalblue]

Nope. Just watermelons.

5 circles and 3 double circles?

Those can come later.

I miss bladehacks. We need more clueless people for me to critize.

[calleharnemark]

Been thinking of an idea.

Create a new form of currency which u can buy with real money & shards (but relatively expensive with shards to motivate people to spend $). Let's call it "Ladder Shards" for now.

With this new form of currency will also be a new game type called "VW Ladder" or something along those lines. The only way you can play or enter a room of this type is if you have enough Ladder shards... Lets say 10 per game. There would be a limit of say 3 or 5 ladder games per day per player.

Then players can play like a normal ladder system. The benefit to this is that you would weed out alot of trolls, and non serious players because of the pay element. This would create a relatively easy to monitor competitive system for existing VW members to compete in, while motivating new players to get better and possibly become spenders. From my experience, competition is the #1 reason people spend on free to play games. I know I would be glad to contribute to something like this.

Additionally, we would have a few trusted members of the community be "ladder mods". I know cheating/trolls would already be at a minimum, because of the pay element, but for that added level of protection. They would periodically spectate ladder games, and make decisions and rulings about ladder issues, limiting the work someone like Lopdo would have to do. But, on a more positive note, these mods would also reward good behavior, politeness, friendliness, and generally nice things. They could reward players when they see acts of kindness and encourage a good gaming environment that is competitive, but also fun.

Well, I doubt this would happen, it may be too much work. However it would be cool

P.S. I will probably be starting a ladder league of my own soon

So, you want a free online game to be wanna-be pay to play?

[canag0d]

Not at all. You still play VW as normal like now. But you can choose to participate in this ladder. I'm thinking maybe $3 to $5 per month would allow you to play max # of games every month. Also you can use shards to play as well (but you wont be able to play the max games per day/month).

There would be a leader board (similar to rankings now) that would show ladder standings. Nothing would change, except for those who would want to play. If this did happen, I can't see how anyone would not want to play.

[Joshua]

5 circles and 3 double circles?

Those can come later.

I miss bladehacks. We need more clueless people for me to critize.

Is that a pun or..?

[calleharnemark]

Back on topic.
1.To encourage people to buy deluxe map editor we could add achievements for creating maps bigger than 40 regions or creating more than free maps.
2. If we should have ads, we could add the option to skip ads for lifetime premium users.
3. When you create a game you can make it exclusively for premium users thereby reducing less serious players, if we assume those without premium are less serious. I think cheaters and secret allies don't wanna spend money or shards like premium to get more xp and stuff so they prefer the easy way.
I will try to come up with more.