Hey a DF..ive come up with another idea for a way for zup to make more money..Every time someone joins a game..it should take away at least 500 coins..but every time someone joins that 500 coins..goes to zup..but I haven't entirely figured out how the game coins would turn into real money for zup to keep d games up..I'm a keep the idea in mind..tell me what u think k about the idea..and give me any other ways this idea can help zup..

Mighty,

Im waiting for a punch line

Do you really think those yellow pixels in the form of virtual coins are worth anything other in game credit for planes and upgrades.

Its late,have i just been reeled in

I've just added myself another million virtual coins... but my bank insist they can't convert those to Euros.
Why if they can do it with bitcoins I can't with this?

Grrr.... Typed out a big reply to this and it didn't post...

Anyway, the gist of it was that this is actually a pretty solid idea. It should make people buy more coins with real money, and it should cut down on people hopping out of game modes they don't like. It would, however, make it irritating to switch to the losing team to give them a chance, and to try to find a game w/ a particular person.

There's two other issues, but these can be mathematically solved.

#1: This would give an advantage to people who already have purchased upgrades& planes, and earned coins, as it will now be harder to earn x amount of coins. This could be solved by either taking stuff away from people who are already around (Don't do that, please. ), OR, you could shift the prices of everything down, and cut how much $$$ people have in the bank based on some sort of conversion factor.

#2: You couldn't charge a flat rate of $500, or any flat rate. This would utterly devastate noobs, and have no effect at all on us higher-ups who don't need money, or have no trouble getting $500 several times over in a game. You would have to adjust the join-fee based on a ratio that could be derived from your level, k/d, upgrades and planes already purchased, amount of money in your account, and maybe even ratio of shots into an enemy to shots into a blue.

Actually, Might, this was a pretty good idea!

Calvin you were not around when all a pc user had to do was watch an advert and get 5000 coins.Thats why some users have all planes maxed and still 40,000,000 coins free waiting for a new plane to arrive,buy and max out straight away.Someone bought 10 squads and gave them away.Those points were not paid for or earned.Any system involving the coins as payment for the game isn't a fair solution.
Cold hard cash is the way this world works.

....and the option of buying a years worth of monthly subscriptions ahead of time?

So would u basically bring back the lvl 8 and up servers??

Jeff- Seriously? Damn... But surely you're exaggerating, right? 40 million at 5000 per video is 8 thousand videos watched, plus whatever it takes to buy all of the upgrades for the planes.

Anyway, while it sure wouldn't be fair, it would still bring in money, and at this point, that may be the choice that Z's faced with: A fair game, or a game that lets him hire his team back.

Mighty- No, where did you get that from? Personally, I think that the game is better off keeping all people on the same servers, and letting the Aspirants learn to fight their way up. I do understand the necessity of separating us, though. Like he's been saying for a long time now, we have to make some compromises to keep the doors open.

Mighty thats actually a pretty good idea...however..
Do you still have to buy coins even if u have paid for the upgraded servers?
And like calvan stated what if someone wanted to switch??
Its a legit idea but i think more thought should be concidered such as 'Even Sides'
And perhaps we can get a daily mini game like a 'scratch to win' or 'pull the lever' to get some extra points???

Not a bad idea either..but first lets get the lag outta here..probably the #1 complaint on DF right now..

CalvinIsAwesome wrote: Jeff- Seriously? Damn... But surely you're exaggerating, right? 40 million at 5000 per video is 8 thousand videos watched, plus whatever it takes to buy all of the upgrades for the planes.

Anyway, while it sure wouldn't be fair, it would still bring in money, and at this point, that may be the choice that Z's faced with: A fair game, or a game that lets him hire his team back.

Mighty- No, where did you get that from? Personally, I think that the game is better off keeping all people on the same servers, and letting the Aspirants learn to fight their way up. I do understand the necessity of separating us, though. Like he's been saying for a long time now, we have to make some compromises to keep the doors open.

True..and ur right for the aspirants..but couldn't u just raise the difficulty up on d missions??

CalvinIsAwesome wrote: Jeff- Seriously? Damn... But surely you're exaggerating, right? 40 million at 5000 per video is 8 thousand videos watched, plus whatever it takes to buy all of the upgrades for the planes.

Anyway, while it sure wouldn't be fair, it would still bring in money, and at this point, that may be the choice that Z's faced with: A fair game, or a game that lets him hire his team back.

Mighty- No, where did you get that from? Personally, I think that the game is better off keeping all people on the same servers, and letting the Aspirants learn to fight their way up. I do understand the necessity of separating us, though. Like he's been saying for a long time now, we have to make some compromises to keep the doors open.

I never exaggerate unless I'm talking to the ladies
There was the push to get 100000 downloads in 24 hrs people were getting free coins there too.I wasn't playing at these times.

I'm not keen on the coin idea...letting me play free for the first few levels before having to purchase was hook line and sinker. I feel drawing in the masses before making them pay would be more beneficial. I would like to see an annual subscription.

Maybe Monster's right, noobs shouldn't be harassed [/i]THAT much by the game. Maybe once you hit Group Captain III, you have to start paying the per-game fee.

Eagle, I think you misunderstood what was being suggested. I think Mighty meant that we would use the coins we already use for purchases. So no, you never have to pay real money to buy coins, but this would certainly be an incentive to do so.

Christ... Who's picture was that???

true monster..