[Illusion]

I've been suggesting a monthly referral contest for a while now... The few problems with it is that it's easy to fake a referral, and that by even having a (must complete so many posts) we might have another instance of a user randomly chatting to themselves to not only fake out the contest but make easy Aurum as well. If we would use this idea we would have to think of an idea around this.

The only thing I see working is a Avatar contest system, but it would have to built on a better idea and functionality than Gaia online's system because if you ever been on Gaia you would know the 1 - 5 star rating system is too broken, and people who advertise their entry the most usually wins.

Now a auctioning system.. Here's my idea for it, make a weekly auction (or less; it would need trial and error) for new exclusive DI quality items. People can buy tickets for 1k each, or 1 per 1 rune (with bigger bundles that sell more tickets for smaller and smaller price reductions the bigger the ticket bundles you buy.) Now what this will do is to create rarity in items. Because lets face it, if you want a item on this site as long as there is enough people on and you have runes or a fair amount of Aurum you can easily get it. Having rarer items would help stimulate the economy because people will be selling items and start questing to get the rarer items. Making more users active because of their questing, and simply posting more in general for money for tickets.
And I say practice the length of the auction for 7 days or slightly less. We need questing on Trisphee, and because the Auction would run every week or so there will always be a chance to gamble for one of those rare items you've been drooling over.

And for games, we need games that can be used universal and can bring people to the site. I really liked the decision making choice game we had back during that Desert event, it was really original and fun. (Although people easily saw through some of the steps in a long run.) I rather see Trisphee invest time in making a editable quest/decision making game like you where users could edit and make their own story to send to friends on the site (or to link their game on facebook for their friends to come in and play without making an account. But they simply can't play any other story based games unless they make an account, they can only play the ones that you the friend post to facebook.) Also by completing the quest, that user can offer up rewards from their own inventory or money with a certain amount of funds you can edit and place into the game. Also if your friend finishes the story and there is a reward, have it say "Make an account and claim your reward for a jump start on trisphee" or something along those lines.
(And who's to say that staff can't run their events with this free user system as well? Using our main trisphee story and using this system would make reading and experiencing the story more fun as you could have a multiple choice system as you explore trisphee's story in your perspective.)

Also! It would be nice for a animal game, and re-use the items themselves and make a click-able pet game of them. With the bonus that you can wear any of the animals poses as they grow up or "evolve". So sort of like evolving items, but with more focus on simply making the creature themselves. You can make signatures where other users have to touch or love their animals, and people without Trisphee accounts can click and give their animals more love as well.

And finally, a monthly design contest? Eeeh.. Yes and no, we have a hard enough time to get people to participate in those during events. Because normally the person with the best drawing/pixeling skills tends to win, even though I've seen some people with crappy art skills but awesome designs brushed to the side. I've seen sites do contests like "Make you best art piece using only the spray can on MS paint" which limits the contest in it's own right. That and we needs contests like these FOR our events because that's what really keeps events standing out. To have events AND a monthly contest would overflow the site with too many contests, while it's nice to have SOMETHING in between big events. We would have to think of something that everyone could participate in, and to hide other people's entries so other people won't be intimidated to enter.

That's just a couple of ideas I thought of on the spot, but remember our 2 problems right now are member retention, and members joining. So think of ideas that would not only have people join, but to stay after doing so. Kill two birds with one stone.