[Illusion]

Originally Posted by littl3chocobo

ok that was much easier and you do have a valid point on how easy it could be to abuse resets, of course there would be limits to the resets and they would not be /easy/ goals, 50 posts is never going to be viable but 150, 250, or 500 would be and this is to say that the rewards would not be super high


i still think though that 1000 tokens for one rune is a fair amount, with posting goals becoming exponentially higher there is a drop-off of how many people will choose runes over items and i still feel that as long as tokens are hard to get but not impossibly so there is incentive, also newbies see this cash currency being able to be bought with work instead of cash and think it is worth it to post a lot, by the time they realize it is very hard to make enough they are (usually) invested in the site. this is a basic business practice AND it has been shown to work

as long as we moderate it is feasible and viable

please explain the 100 posts bit? i don't understand where you get your numbers

Average aurum you get from posting (when I see it) is around 40 aurum each post, times by 100 = 4k. Which is where runes are typically priced (if not more) if someone actually tries to go out and buy them right now in general (I try to keep tabs of prices right now, sort of hard when the marketplace needs to be revitalized in someway). But I'm just generalizing the number. Even if someone A is sell and then person B is willing to buy 20 runes for 20k that's still 500 posts compared to having to make 10000+ (not to mention there being other ways to make aurum.)

Still it's easier and more worthwhile to just buy runes with just aurum, runes no matter how high you price them won't influence people to post more. And to just have people waste 20k tokens on 20 runes, wouldn't be very prudent of the system that it has set in placed.

by the time they realize it is very hard to make enough they are (usually) invested in the site.

That's so evil, I like it. But not in this way. That's actually a good way to lose people. It's like putting a plunger on a dogs head with a treat tied on a string at the end of it. They're be active to get the treat, but they will never get one through that method. Granted 20 runes isn't incentive enough while you still have regular posting/aurum in general.

But still evil. SO EVIL.... I like this evilness side of you. Wanna do brunch and talk world domination?