New shop: suggestions

I diagree with it replacing the post and characters minerals, seems too situational and it will probably become too rare after the initial hype wears off.

 

Yeah I meant posting and threadin'.

I think there's a good amount of useful posts being made here. Compare that to the 99% "****load of spam" that takes place in peoples profiles. You don't actually think there is more starcraft going on in peoples profiles do you?

Also, I just don't like how you can basically avoid this forum for a month or so and then come back to a couple hundred made from profile visits. Maybe this could be fixed by lowering the minerals per visit though, but then it would perhaps be too useless. I just feel that aside from posting and creating threads, getting minerals from "thank you's" or mods would be enough.

 

Well for the most part a lot of these categories that I'm allowing minerals for (profile visits, picture additions) are to test them out.

Why don't you guys make a list of the ones that you think are useful. Don't tell me which ones AREN'T useful. Give me the ones that you think have a positive effect on activity.

 

I don't think we got minerals for messages, only visits, but I could be wrong.

As for listing the useful things, there's not much that I'd say directly relate to contribution and can be automated apart from the obvious thanks and rep. Make the third form of income posts with a minimum of X characters and that should be enough, and would ensure a very minimal inflation.

 

Why don't we just make a list and then create a poll?


Things that you should definitely get minerals for:

• Creating a new topic.
• Posting. (a set amount for the post + minerals per character)
• Creating a poll.
• Receiving a Thank You for your post.
• Random rewards by the mods for good posts.

Things that you could get minerals for:

• When someone views your profile.
• When you reach a specific amount of posts.
• When creating a new a new Social Group that generates a lot of activity. (for example: get 50 minerals when 50+ posts have been made)

I'll add more later on, or just quote this message if you want to add something.

 

I came up with something that would make the shop more interesting in my opinion, but I'm not sure if it can be done. Here's the deal:

• Pets require their prerequisite buildings from the actual tech tree.

• Everything costs 10 times as much as they do in the game.

• Once someone owns a race specific gas extractor, they automatically get half as much gas as minerals.

Example:
To get a hydralisk you need:

• Spawning pool for 2000 minerals

• Extractor for 1000 minerals

• Hydralisk den for 1000 minerals and 500 gas

• Buy hydra for 1000 minerals and 500 gas

Every member automatically gets a main building after they have chosen a race in their user CPs, preferably with an option to hide the icon (personally I don't like the look of them). This allows the user to buy the appropriate racial buildings, but not others. You could of course buy a new main of a different race for 4000 minerals.

The advantage of this system is that it's more fun and there is no hassle with setting appropriate price tags, it'd be perfectly fair.

The disadvantage of this system is that it'd require a considerable amount of work at the beginning, coding requirements and adding a new currency, etc.

But I do believe the efforts would be worth it because it could result in a fun, strong, permanent shop structure. What do you think?

 

D; then id never get the zlot i want before xmas =/

 

kuvasz I like the idea but... i wanted to get a bunch of Zerg units then 1 Zealot with the message "Wtf am I doing here?" n 1 random Marine with message "OMFG Zerg!!!"

Random = win.

 

a battle system based on statistics would be nice

example:

first you have to choose which race you are
then you get a main building
you can buy sub buildings and every # if days will produce a unit (like 30 days and you get a zergling)
you can only generate 1 unit per time (the time it takes to generate a unit may depend on the unit itself like lurker for 2 months)
each unit has a specific attack and defense points
add those points up
and challenge a battle with other members
for a specific wager
like Kerwyns fleet against my zealots...
i would win...
right?
RIGHT?!

 

I would love to enact some of these ideas, specifically the "building your race" idea, but it's just not within my capabilities :-\

 

Jon needs to go to programer school.

 

Programming is harder then it sounds. + we would pretty much be making a browser vers of Starcraft >.>

 

Hey, take it easy, jon has been working hard on fixing up the shop.
And kerwyn and i are doing everything we can to help him out. Just be patient, we just want to get the main thing working w//o any flaws before saying it should have really cool attachments like a corndog rottisary and flashing lights =P

 

I like the "race building" idea. Wasn't there going to be something like a pet fighting function that was rumored to be created when the forum changed? It would definately add to the competative side of the forum.

 

:O pet fighting? young man, that promotes animal abuse, i'm ashamed you'd even suggest that >: (

and idk, i heard about it, but jon hasn't said anything about it.

 

i don't think that would work...

I don't like getting complicated with build orders etc, while it would make the shop more complicated and time wasting, it would be too hard tot get units from different races.

 

you sould like one of those anti-pokemon people

And no, im not ashamed. Digital fighting is different than real animal fighting, just ask those inferior Digimon trainers XD

 

How would pet fighting even work? wouldn't an archon always beat a zergling?

we should have starcraft pets, for a greater variety.

I bags Dark Archon in pet fights, mind control your pets

 

I think the rumor was that their power would be dependant on how expencive they were.

It would be kinda cool to have a leveling up system basied on fighting exp and forum activity.

 

yeah, i figured it would be too much