Mitch (IFRIT)

I feel that the important part to remember here is that it's being proposed to remain in a dedicated section of the website. I suppect that the community would not support full blown ads. But that they could support it in a dedicated section. If I could save 10% off a purchase from a retailer for my computer parts that isn't as big name as amazon, Newegg. That if I were to have good things to say about my experience and the products I recieved or less than positive experience. I could let fellow members know and have a direct line of communication with both the representative and members. Smaller sites wants your traffic and feedback so that they can grow.

The proposal is as follows. Time and time again on Asylum, you find players looking for feedback on different gaming (Computer) products. Over the last few weeks, I have been thinking it would be awesome to have a dedicated area on the forums to list this Q&A about different products. Furthermore, it could be valuable to create this subsection. However, this subsection would be different than the other areas based upon the ability for it to be sponsored by X company. With this sponsorship, the company could list their weekly, monthly or daily specials on the forums. They would have the potential to reach over 11K members through their post. They could elect to provide special coupon codes for Asylum players to save a percentage off their purchases. Though the profit margin would lower to start. It would provide live, real-time feedback for company representatives on their products at little cost to them. The monetary gain through this offered Asylum service would help cover the monthly running cost of the community. Over time, this has the potential to grow. Although the chances of reaching a top 500 company are rather slim. Any amount of extra income would help further the communities mission. This is rather rough draft to get the ideas to the paper. Let’s brainstorm how we can further create this initiative. Edit @Olio @Paratus

Here is my contribution to helping the population grow. If a reward of some type were to be offered to players who refer a new player that has atleast x amount of hours and or days played would be eligible to receive a "reward". Either just the referring player or both parties could benefit from this. (I'm on mobile at the moment so please forgive any spelling errors). This would encourage our current players to help new players learn the community and the workings. It's not intended to be a get rich deal. But one that provides reward for time spent. @Olio

I like that even more!

Reading my mind.

Majority of APD higher ups right now

Easy there

Ahhh. Still sticking around right?!

Sorry to hear that! I could of sworn i just saw you in cadet.

didn't i just see you on cadet? what happened?!

That's my trick

It was back, and nothing happened. The same shit talkers complained, and the same thing happened as Tanoa is/ did experience.

hakuna matata

I'm holding on like jack and rose.

Inb4 you realize admins have no ability to fix anything server related.

I'm just hopeful that through sharing ideas. That all may not be viable, but that maybe a portion of each idea presented could help someone build a solid plan that they wouldn't have thought of before without reading some others perspectives.

Thanks for all the responses. I couldn't remember the actual cost of a heli. But the point here is that the taxi system is unreliable most days. And that this would add a risk VS reward. Sure, adding a vehicle garage to every DP could easily be done. But this brings some new content. I get that a 20k load out isn't worth that much in the cost for a helicopter ride. But there is obviously a need for something because there has been multiple threads about this issue. So the argument about a load out isn't the voice of the entire community.

This is just a rough draft of a idea. Being Stranded as a player is a pretty frustrating task. Let's not get into why people get Stranded. But my idea is based off the drug runner planes. What I propose is the following. If a player is stranded and they wish to not suicide to get to a town. They could call in a helicopter delivery. The cost of the hummingbird would be twice the cost of buying it from the shop. The ability to call one in would not be available if they are in combat of any sort. The current inability to store a vehicle mechanism could be used. When the player chooses to call one in. There would be a 2 minute wait until the helicopter is delivered. Once the helicopter is delivered. A task would be created where they have x amount of minutes to return it to the air shop. Once it was returned. A portion of the cost would be refunded. If the player failed to return in the given amount of time, they would incurre the full cost of the rental. Obviously this is a big undertaking to implement. But it's just an idea! Leave some feedback and please forgive my poor Grammer and sentence structure. I'm on mobile and review is difficult.

I think it's fair to say, that a alternative form of payment was used.

go to bed

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