Advertising and Donation setup

[SpaceHiker]

Start up some ideas

[HateTheFake]

Theres enough room at the top right to do a small advertisement/banner. Seeing as pepsi was one of our first sponsors it might be the first place to ask. Use the money to advertise on sites like ebaumsworld, miniclip, ect.

Use a paypall donation link on the trenchwars.org site. Maybe make it a star system? Bronze - 10 dollars+ Silver- 50 dollars+ Gold- 100 dollars + And when you upload someones twd profile it will show them with a bronze/silver/gold star and a Total amount donated. So Spacehiker GoldStar- 150 dollars

Either use the money for advertising or better servers to help prevent lag. Or better yet more servers in other countries?

[Ronn]

If I donated money how will I know it would go to good use and not be pocketed by someone?

[HateTheFake]

But the best way to get back old players. Send a forum message. There has to be 10k people registered to these forums, all you need to do is have an admin send a Merry Christmas email or something and even if 1 percent come back thats 100 people.

Edit: Members: 3,467 so 34 people at 1 percent

[Stabwound]

Ya know, SSC Ops should do something like that, but I'm not sure how easy it is to rip a list of email addresses from the database the biller creates.

[HateTheFake]

Ya know, SSC Ops should do something like that, but I'm not sure how easy it is to rip a list of email addresses from the database the biller creates.

true thats why i stated forums, we got like 4 k people to advertise to, just need to send an email. If staff really wanted to repopulate the zone this is probably the easiest step they can take.

[Fluffz]

If I donated money how will I know it would go to good use and not be pocketed by someone?

EXACTLY! And if you as player do not trust the current system what are the chances a company will?

Ill just trow the idea of founding a legal institution out there again. The only problem is that such an act would require real life interaction and everyone is being a pussy. Basically i would need like 4 ppl to sign some founding documents (that include what could be called a mission statement) and SS would be a legal person (just like the red cross) with a bank account and post address, no cost or liability involved (of course only as long as you dont violate laws, eg steal money from this "union").

This first step however is useless, we could than sell membership cards to the community (that basically do nothing jet) or ask for company sponsorship. Meanwhile we would focus on getting a new client/server done and create infrastructure that doesnt rely on a single person. Saving SS can only succeed together, everything else is just a slow painful decline i am not interested to join. Top down approach wtf.

[Doc Flabby]

Just by sticking google adwords or simlar in the spare banner spot you could make around $20-30 a month on a forum like this. Alternativly use it to promote other zones like it used to.

[Pure_Luck]

I like some of these ideas and will present them. We can see about setting up a legal thing too since that seems to make sense. I know I can show where all the money goes so people know too .

[Soja]

already donated 10 bucks i believe Pure Luck can be trusted with this since he does pay for the server i believe. so i can help as well

Also Hate the Fake has an interesting idea its always good to be competitive since humans are competitive in nature giving metals for the most money given is a good way to start off your campaign of reviving the zone. Another is you can give special privileges to members who donate more than 100 dollars. Or something like that

[Melon]

We could set up a webhosting site, and get our monthly hosting through it.... oh wait. Anyone know where my money is going on that?

[kthx]

I don't think that people should be given anything for donating more than a thankyou and their name on a donation website.

If we start giving out special bonus's in game for donations we turn into... adventurequest or fallensword or any of the other crappy games where the amount of money you give out makes you more skilled. I am completely against that.

[Soja]

I like the either idea u gave in a thread where it should be 4 links donating to which one u want.

[kthx]

Yeah, I honestly think that is the best possible solution to the donation thing, when you tack that on with the idea to make the donations show up in an account that all players can see who donated what, and how much money is in the pot. And where we can see the receipts online as to where the money is going. I think this would honestly make everyone happy, and even have people who didn't want to donate because of the above reasons donate.

[HateTheFake]

Trying to get some other support from other zones, seeing as we all have a vested stake in ss's future

http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=22247&hl=
http://www.extreme-games.net/forum/v...p?f=39&t=20487