Free Paids part II

M MoopsOP

OP 20/12/2011 · 09:19 PM #1

Well everyone, its that time of year again. Santa Moops is going to hand out free paids. However, I can`t think of a good fun way to do it, I don`t want to do PM`s again because I already did that and it seems too subjective. And a raffle seems too boring and lame. Any suggestions?

tl;dr how do i give free paids away D:

Thanks in advance to TBK for giving me some turn based paids to hand out this time around :)

C Crack

22/12/2011 · 07:41 AM #22

Or u could give it in a different way.. eg.. normally taxers like guards, virals or aminers get hit for borders.. why not eg give to a collective or maru (hint) who gets hit, but always try to be out of dp much longer than they stay in dp..

I would nominate myself since my slow is unpaid but i would rather see alphacentauri as a viral, maru or guard.. maybe it could spur him to have a remake of gc..

C Crack

22/12/2011 · 07:34 AM #21

Or u could give it in a different way.. eg.. normally taxers like guards, virals or aminers get hit for borders.. why not eg give to a collective or maru (hint) who gets hit, but always try to be out of dp much longer than they stay in dp..

I would nominate myself since my slow is unpaid but i would rather see alphacentauri as a viral, maru or guard.. maybe it could spur him to have a remake of gc..

A AshyLarry

22/12/2011 · 02:23 AM #20

moops, you could give them away like radio dj`s do with tickets. what ever number person to pm you that hour or day gets the paid

S SPIKER

22/12/2011 · 01:06 AM #19

SPIKER just put his hand out and says , just hand it over to me , ; )

W wingnut

22/12/2011 · 12:19 AM #18

you should do something with the forum. like an award for most interesting thread, or thread that gets flaming the best. It would be nice to see something happening here other than maybe one comment posted 35hrs ago.

M MoopsOP

21/12/2011 · 11:48 AM #17

If I did option 1 then I wouldn`t do it through feds, I would just allow people to nominate any player, then players with the most nominations would get paids. If I did option 2, I would announce the times a few days in advance, I`d pick them 12 hours apart so most time zones would be eligable, then the PM`s the came in first after the exact time I specify would be winners

F FlashysDomain

21/12/2011 · 10:39 AM #16

moops...with some feds, es[pecially this time of year, they can`t get ahold of players in a quick fashion to ask...

Maybe do a mix of both?

i`d suggest announcing it...give it a few days...then go through the nominations and select.

R rogueassassin

21/12/2011 · 10:22 AM #15

chaos random times, its still unfair for the fed-less people =\ plus there are very few feds some with like 2-3 members as said before. atleast the random time gives everyone a fair chance due to it being random lol. plus newer fed mates might not get many votes being new and all..

M MoopsOP

21/12/2011 · 10:15 AM #14

Hmm, I like that wicca, here`s what I`ve come up with then

1) I go the nomination / voting route with chats / banners / advertising

2) I pick 2 times, 12 hours apart, the first 5 people to message me at each time win (10 seperate winners, can`t win twice)

So there`s an organized voting way to win, or a borderline random race to PM me first. Order vs Chaos. WHAT DOES GC WANT?

:3

W wiccawilow

21/12/2011 · 09:12 AM #13

advertise in chat, pm leaders of feds or an active member of said fed to nominate someone (for the nominating idea) ask staff to give you a banner (if badwolf allows it) or alternatively ask staff to make it a mini event from you

D DraconianParadise

21/12/2011 · 06:50 AM #12

I want a paid because i can;t buy one ! Don;t have a credit card =-/

M MoopsOP

21/12/2011 · 05:10 AM #11

Well here`s my thoughts about the ideas. As far as a competition goes, I was hoping to give around 6-7 paids, give or take 2 or 3. In my opinion, it would take a very long time to get that many battles interesting enough to win a paid, let alone enough interesting battles to *win* a paid over another battle. If that makes sense.

The problem I have with the fed idea is that there isn`t really very many feds. And lots have inactive leaders.

I`m ALWAYS a fan of giving paids to new players (who have been around more than a week or so) or to players who have never been able to be upgraded. (no credit card, no spare money, etc etc)

I was thinking maybe a spinoff of the fed idea, where people could be nominated to deserve a free paid, and if people vote for them they will win one. I just don`t know if there will be enough of a response to something like that. I only got like 20 pm`s or so last time I did this. Out of the ENTIRE game only about 20 players asked for a free paid. So I`m not expecting a huge turnout here lol...

A AshyLarry

21/12/2011 · 04:26 AM #10

1) give it to your fed mates / friends
2) give it to new players with facc
3) some type of competition

R rogueassassin

21/12/2011 · 04:12 AM #9

The problem i see with the fed thing is well..not everyone has feds specially some tb players :S i did like the most interesting battles idea tho, like the most epic win from under or a counter from 4x that fails something along those lines...as for tb well, some servers are kinda inactive =\ but i do know some people play most/all so maybe have someone be a target and build out on and off who ever has the best stack (to promote stacking in game) or the most wins against sed person will get the prize. i know it might be alil harder for slower servers but still should be able to still build out 2-3 times a day maybe :S then the person who helps could maybe get a tb for helping out?

C Crack

21/12/2011 · 12:50 AM #8

If its tb.. Give it to someone on tb or someone who will wanna play tb..

S Seifer

20/12/2011 · 11:01 PM #7

give them all to me

M MajorDinero

20/12/2011 · 11:00 PM #6

You could have a best battles contest or something.

Give the paid to someone that has the most interesting battle.

F FlashysDomain

20/12/2011 · 10:55 PM #5

Or give one to fed Leaders and have them select which of their fed mates is deserving...

F FlashysDomain

20/12/2011 · 10:54 PM #4

Print out rankings, toss a dart.

That is, of course, after all empires starting with the letters Flashysdomain are selected...

M MoopsOP

20/12/2011 · 10:19 PM #3

Lol wicca, didn`t mean to imply raffles weren`t awesome :P
Just not awesome for something like this, if I had bigger prizes, or could afford to do it weekly or monthly... then a raffle would be more awesome :P

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