Modification Give Platinum more features.

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  1. Bagels

    Bagels Dedicated Member Bronze VIP

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    As the title says. Right now, the only advantages platinum has over gold is access to the songlist and more tokens/cash. It would be fine if platinum was only slightly more expensive than gold, but platinum is $20 more than gold. I doubt anyone would want to pay $20 for access to a songlist.

    I suggest we split up the features of gold and platinum and give gold a few less features and give those to platinum (unless some really good ideas for new features for VIPs is added, I'd love to hear those as well) or just combine gold and platinum and get rid of one entirely. Personally, I'm more in favor of the first option.

    Feedback would be appreciated.
     
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  2. Viral

    Viral Devinity's Finest Forger Platinum VIP

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    Reduction in item store contents.
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  3. SilverMario

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    Wow when you steal my idea feelsbadman.

    On a serious note, how bad would it be to make it so they can force an event like once or twice a day?
     
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    jeffreythe00 Dreamer Platinum VIP

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    If it wasn't too much of a reduction, maybe.

    Not that bad.
     
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  5. classic

    classic Community Member Platinum VIP

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    Or instead of voting for a random event, you get to choose which event you want. If that's what you meant @SilverMario
     
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  6. SilverMario

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    That is what "force event" happens to do lol. Force event is the admin command that lets them do it for like testing purposes, platinum players I bet would love this so they can play their favorite event while they're on.
     
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  7. Conan

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    The second option would be in my opinion, better.
    As you said bagels, the only advantages platinum has over gold is access to the song list and more tokens/cash.
    And as a player, playing for more cash and a song list isn't attractive.
    Some of the gold players may be upset because they'll lose what they have paid to have.
    The second option may be more " respectful and reasonable " towards gold players.
     
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    Wolfgang Veteran Member Platinum VIP

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    Keep in mind that Devinity is not the type of community that is bloodthirsty for donations. The reason we don't give pay-to-win benefits is because that's not the type of server we're looking to have, our donators are supposed to be people who are trying to support us not ones who are just looking to get ahead in the game. However I do feel we should reward our current Platinum supporters a little more, I'd say we should be looking for more the cosmetic type of items though.

    @SilverMario i suggested something like that about a week ago. I don't feel they should be able to force though, maybe just vote for specific rounds. We don't want them overriding admin commands
     
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  9. SilverMario

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    It's not something that would be that big of a deal, since the least bought rank right now is platinum. It's nice to just force a round once/twice a day to play events you like instead of having to vote for an event because chances are people won't like the event. But implementing voting for specific rounds would be a nice perk for platinum players.
     
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    Donkie Founder & Senior Developer Platinum VIP

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    I agree on the force event stuff. I'm just not sure if we really should have a vip rank cost fucking 50$
     
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    Wolfgang Veteran Member Platinum VIP

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    Might as well keep it until people stop buying it :p
     
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  12. jeffreythe00

    jeffreythe00 Dreamer Platinum VIP

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    If we had higher levels of VIP, people would buy them.
     
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  13. SilverMario

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    Maybe change platinum to gold? Or make platinum only $30 ame gold like $25?
     
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    Wolfgang Veteran Member Platinum VIP

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    Why are we marking down prices if people are still paying for them
     
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  15. SilverMario

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    Have you seen the chart of how many platinum players there are? Also $50 is absured for a rank that just gives more server economy and just song requests. We need to either give more perks (Like forcing 2 events per day) or lower the price of it.
     
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    counter Moderator Staff Member Server Moderator Platinum VIP

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    I think the cost of platinum is fine if people wants to help us pay for the fees. I personally would donate $50 just to help keep the community going.

    What platinum really needs is to be more rewarding (not pay to win shit) --> expressing our gratitude
    • Rainbow Physgun/Player Color
    • Exclusive Accessories, <static> 'pets' even (?; something Dawson and I can come up with)
    • Voting for specific events (forcing would cause abuse in their favor)
    • ???
    VIPs in general:
     
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  17. SilverMario

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    Forcing once or twice a day, how could that be abused lol?
     
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    counter Moderator Staff Member Server Moderator Platinum VIP

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    I'm not sure myself but there could always be potential abuse for everything. It's just not a good idea in general; it might piss off the players
     
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    It's once or twice a day, they dont have to know that a platinum player forced it, and I have no clue how to abuse it. Just disable allowing to use it if a random event was voted on for the next round or an event is coming up in the next round.
     
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    There should be some type of cooldown for any type of event voting really. Maybe for 3-5 rounds every time a vote is successful
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    -----> maybe that could fix concerns we/others may have
     
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