[Ginger]

I was leaning more towards a weekly avatar contest for the community as a whole, and said avatar would be featured on the front page for a week, or in an announcement, and given a special prize of 10 runes or something. Trisphee staff would do the judging. I think this will help to encourage newer users to want to beef up their avatars and create quests for fancy items. To get said fancy items requires activity around the site. Can't the site afford to put 10 runes a week into someone's account, to keep the community stimulated enough for new and old users alike to stay, and keep active? What's the point in staying if there's nothing keeping our interest, besides posting? I don't necessarily feel this way, but I'm sure plenty of users who have been a member of the site feel it.

I think a monthly raffle for a set of current monthlies or choice of a yearly item, paid for in aurum or 1 rune per ticket, would stimulate more activity. It would also act as an aurum sink.

I realize in order for the community to be active, the community itself needs to be active. But we need stimulation to stay active. Besides the crane game, we have nothing to do but post. I'd be happy with the same generic games that are on other sites, like Tetris, for small aurum amounts or random cheap common generator.

I by no means think of the staff as invincible, and I do understand all of the hard work they're doing. I guess I've just been appalled that Fenris has left staff, and basically abandoned the site with not much word, except that her real life job takes a lot of her time.