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@gladson1976 yes, the system I'm proposing is meant to keep non contributing users at low levels while allowing contributing members to get ranks somewhat easily at the beginning and then harder to harder.
If you have 100k points, gaining the next 2 levels would require to fill 1 request each, then going from rank 7 to 8 would require to fill 2 requests and so on.
On the other hand, if you just want to wait, if you have 100k points, gaining a level would require 277 days of waiting. The system is meant to create the following dilemma for non-contributing users: ‘’Do I wait 9 months to level up or do I just buy an item at 10 bucks and level up immediately’’ It is inspired by freemium models in gaming and my system is just a very basic progression system.
I dont understand the last thing you said:
‘’.. but according to this.. i will be getting 90 points for site visit.. which means it might take a bit more time to accumulate and i would have less to give out..’’
Right now you are getting 50 pts a day and assuming the new system is in place you would be getting 90.
This only matters if rank means something here. Right now, it doesn't.
Other than that, they mean nothing because, currently, rank means nothing.Yes, that is correct. But as I said, if this implemented, there will be a way to make rank matter. Certain things could be limited to certain ranks. For instance: new posts to the main site cant be downloaded by under rank X for at least X number of days, etc.. Rank 1 can only download items posted greater than X days ago. Things like this could then be done, without penalizing people that dropped levels just because they bought stuff.
Certain things could be limited to certain ranks. For instance: new posts to the main site cant be downloaded by under rank X for at least X number of days, etc.. Rank 1 can only download items posted greater than X days ago. Things like this could then be done, without penalizing people that dropped levels just because they bought stuff.
This would suck really bad to start with, but as you get used to it, I think it would work.
@Frank21
I also agree with this!If they leave things they way they are now then I'm quite happy with that.
Why not just make every item's price vary according to rank? The higher your rank, the cheaper the item. This way:
1-Higher ranks really mean something and are easier to maintain.
2-Multi accounting only dillutes your progress.
3-Lower ranks are encouraged to rank up.I would also remove rewards for uploading anything; as a matter of fact, uploading an item should cost points, and the rewards should depend only on how often the item is downloaded (but they should be higher). This way, if you try to fill up the blog with garbage nobody wants you will end up draining your points.
(I'm sorry, I said I would not pester you with any more suggestions, but I couldn't help it)
I would also remove rewards for uploading anything; as a matter of fact, uploading an item should cost points, and the rewards should depend only on how often the item is downloaded (but they should be higher). This way, if you try to fill up the blog with garbage nobody wants you will end up draining your points
Its not necessary, the uploader already only gets points per each download. If nobody downloads, then uploader gets no points.
This isnt COD, why is everyone so obsessed with "rank"? Who TF cares?
pfffffft ranked competitive pirating leaderboards lmaooo
It is not about competitiveness. It is about showing participation/filling status or something along that line. Showing that you are not a deadbeat pirate, LOL! Sharing is one thing, but to rely on everyone else to fill your content is looked down on. Make sense?
I know people don't always have the money to just buy a product hence getting help here with sharing. I got it, and I am not downing anyone about that, but it is like having an old friend stay with you for a week to help him/her get back on their feet. When that gets pushed to two weeks, ok, it's cool. They need the help, and then it turns to months and so forth... do I need to keep going!?!Unless you're just busting balls being wise guys, but whatever!
I'm sorry but all this comparing points on this site is reminding me of those mobile game ads that are like "sorry you only have 15000 combat power in league of clans, we can't be together anymore! my new boyfriend has over 5 million combat power!"
I have no idea why it's a good idea for people to "pay" for anything on a fuckin' pirate site!?
The entire purpose of a pirate site is to get a product meant for purchase for FREE, I mean, IF we were to buy ANYTHING, it would be the products that we would have ordinarily bought instead of going to a pirate site to begin with!
Equally absurd is making said pirate site an exclusive, "Only VIP members gets to download for free because they earned the right" convention... ⇐ It's absurd because it negates the very people that keep the site relevant...
And while lurkers are NOT the site's "best earners/VIP members" for their arbitrary artificial income, it is indeed they, whose sole reason for even coming to the site, is TO NOT PAY FOR THE THING THAT IS FEATURED ON THE BLOODY PIRATE SITE TO BEGIN WITH!
Sure, maintaining a site's costs are a vital reality that the site's owners must adhere to, but that burden falls on the site's owners, and not the people that the site itself is trying to attract as members, and if you make the point of entry's requirements too steep, then they'll simply go to another site…
I have been a member of countless underground/pirate content-trading sites that failed because they wanted to get rid of lurkers and rely exclusively on members who are the site's main content providers, the problem of that logic always comes out the same for the site…
A once-flourishing site that has been reduced to nothing more than a small group of content providing VIP members ends up trading content that they already have, so it's no longer a content-sharing site, but a small group of the same 20 members with no new content being traded…
So, they decide to make a site to trade content open, but then the same 20 members get angry because they feel that it's not fair for them to be the only ones providing content, so they make it an exclusive VIP-only restrictive site, and ends up chasing off lurkers which make up the near-entirety of the site's visitors!
Therefore, they end up repeating the same situation needed for a content trading site to begin with. And so the cycle continues again, and again...
The fact of the matter is that you cannot force lurkers to become content providers, as they come to content-trading sites because they don't have content to begin with!
@3dartist2k22 bro where do you think the assets on the site come from? Someone has to pay real money for them, and shit's expensive. We don't have some back channel method of getting the asset files directly for free. There's gotta be at least *some* give and take to keep things balanced.
Pretty much everything on the blog was at some point bought and paid for with real dollars by a member of the site that shared it. That's the only way requests get filled and stuff makes it to the site. And the fewer people there are buying things to share with us, the more we depend on those people and the more control they have over what happens here. So it's good sense in general to have as many people as possible contributing at least something once in a while to the site.
Ultimately, the lurkers that contribute nothing would not change anything at all about *this* site if they disappeared and went somewhere else.
@3dartist2k22, wow, two whole posts (both complaining) over 7 months appears to be your total contribution to this site. What exactly are you providing to this community (other than complaints)?
@3dartist2k22, You'd be singing a completely different tune if YOU where the one spending real money to buy stuff and share it here. You'd be getting pretty damned sick of the tens of thousands of deadbeat leeches and parasites who think that they are entitled to an endless avalanche of free stuff. All of you could disappear and it would make no differe...no wait...it would make a HUGE difference because those of us who have shared wouldn't feel like we where just feeding a bunch of ungrateful hangers-on and bloodsuckers.
Buy one item, just one measly little item and share it you freeloading sponge.
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