• VIP durations will be changed to 30 day increments
  
• VIP via item donations will be removed
  
• VIP reservation slot package will be removed and replaced with: 2 week VIP package ($5)
  
• A 3 day VIP trial package will be added ($1) for people to try out VIP
  
• NZD currency will be removed (due to currency conversion)
  
• The store on: Jailbreak, Combat Surf will be heavily tweaked. Expect a lot of content to become 'VIP only'. As of right now the VIP store is extremely small compared to the public store. This would be okay if people donated for credits this does not occur due to the credit economy (more on this later). Note any items removed from your account will be refunded as credits equal to the credit price purchased at.
  
• VIP will shortly be fully automated (integration with servers and websites). People will lose VIP perks at most 1 day after expiry. People will gain VIP perks at most 15 minutes after donating (funds clearing).
  
• New VIP features will be coming eventually
  

• Gifting of credits is (from right now) disabled. Credit gifting threads/etc will be closed/removed from now on. Credits will now be obtained only through playtime, plugins on server, Invex competitions (comp night), JB awards etc. This change is needed due to the fact that some players have accumulated massive amounts of credits (100k+) and distribute them to many players. This means these people no longer require as much credits and thus will not donate.
  
• The credit economy will need to fixed as new store items come out. One option is to price new items insanely high, but this isn't fair to the average player. Another option is to reset every players credits to 0, and take every XXX amount of credits to equal 1 month of VIP. This needs some discussion below.
  

• As of right now, obtaining Admin is fairly achievable on Invex. We've never had a 'trial admin' rank because we believe an admin should be able to admin in full capacity from the start. One issue is people who purposely apply for admin for the purpose of getting free included VIP (some past admins admitted to this). We, of course, want to give free VIP to our admins as a thank you for admining the servers but at the same time, we notice admins no longer financially support the server. For this reason, some discussion will be occurring about admins getting VIP.
  
• One of various things will happen: Admins will only get VIP after 3 months of being an admin OR Admins will no longer get VIP for admining. Being an Admin will be looked as a very positive contribution in a senior member application. Senior members will be able to select 1 server at a time to receive VIP on (but can't receive it on the same server for more than 2 months in a row). Veterans will continue to receive global VIP.
  

(16-12-2016/12:58 PM)Forgotten Wrote: 7. Thank god for automatic VIP payments, I wish we had that 3 months ago ;(

(16-12-2016/12:58 PM)Forgotten Wrote: 1. Hmm, credits turning into VIP sounds good only as a ONE TIME THING for this change, if they've reached a certain amount of credits that is, like 10,000 = 1 month 5000 = 1/2 a month, and you can do the math from there. I don't see a lot of people reaching over 10,000 credits so only a portion of players will be receiving free VIP because of their dedication (10,000 credits without being donated or winning giveaways is a lot). Then continue to turn off credit giving, and let them earn credits for new things in the shop.

2. For VIP admin changes, I agree with the 3 months of being an admin thing, as that really shows their dedication, however; maybe make it so you mark the playtime of when they got accepted into admin, and 3 months after being accepted, to see if they've actually been on and doing their job in that time they've been admin.

3. And of course, globals should just get perm global VIP as they shouldn't be global if they weren't dedicated and they'll receive Veteran after they resign anyways.

4. The 3 day VIP trial is pretty cool, I like that a lot.

5. 2 weeks VIP is also pretty good, don't think anyone bought the reservation slot lol.

6. The VIP guard skins are very short so it's good to see some more stuff becoming VIP only.

7. Thank god for automatic VIP payments, I wish we had that 3 months ago ;(

Those are my thought about the change

(16-12-2016/01:34 PM)Razor Wrote: First off, I believe that Admins shouldn't receive free VIP, as there are as said above, plenty of admins that apply just for VIP, and don't actually try to contribute to keeping the servers up and running.


Secondly, lately I have thought of a few ideas for VIP/Store on the servers, and have thought about the possibility of milestones. Basically the way this would work is that once a player reaches a specific playtime, either overall, on specific teams, or both, they would unlock an item in the store, get X amount of credits, or even at a very high playtime to show their dedication, a small VIP reward (a month or less). To check the milestones you would do !milestone or something like that and then it would show rewards up until around 100k PT, the rewards would go something similar to this.

10,000 PT = 1,000 credits

20,000 PT = 5,000 credits

30,000 PT = Some item in the store eg. Banana Joe Skin

50,000 PT = Month or less of VIP

And so on.

And there could be other rewards in between that, eg at 25k PT, 40k PT, 5k PT, etc.



Another idea would be the !jackpot plugin, a few players from other communities have suggested this idea to me, and I'm sure you know how it works, you can do !jackpot X amount of credits and it would give you a chance to win them, based on how many credits you put in/how many credits are already in the jackpot, eg if someone did !jackpot 90 and you did !jackpot 10, you would have a 10% chance of winning 90 credits + your credits back.


Another problem is, after a while you have nothing to put credits into, so this could be fixed with either, adding more items to the store regularly, or buying VIP with a high amount of credits, lets say around 20,000 = 1 month. OR you could buy !ws separately for the same duration for around half of that, as that is one of the main reasons people buy VIP.

Let me know what you think of some of these ideas as well.

(16-12-2016/12:58 PM)Forgotten Wrote: 7. Thank god for automatic VIP payments, I wish we had that 3 months ago ;(

Also lmao ^

(16-12-2016/12:29 PM)Bot Invex Wrote: Admins:

• As of right now, obtaining Admin is fairly achievable on Invex. We've never had a 'trial admin' rank because we believe an admin should be able to admin in full capacity from the start.