Suggestion Voting rewards

[Velenne]

Last time I voted I got 4 iron. I was... underwhelmed. If you want people to vote, they need a little more incentive because, let's face it, not everyone immediately grasps the benefit of making a server like this more popular. Here's my suggestion:

Each vote on a given day grants you a Key item. A chest at spawn works like a slot machine. Right click the chest with the Key and a window appears whose central block is a rotating slew of items. It comes to a slow rolling stop on your reward.

Rewards scale from booby-prizes to great gear. The sky's the limit. It's also a good way to tease some of the items sold in the server Shop.

 

[gabrosen]

Interesting Idea.

 

[BorkMork]

It's also a good way to tease some of the items sold in the server Shop.

Hm, that can be a good idea actually, can get someone an example of what we have to offer and can increase the chance of someone donating or buying it.

 

[Wizardteepot]

Oooh! I'd love for the possibility to win a lore scroll!
I totally support this idea.

 

[Adara_]

This sounds like an interesting idea. As long as it remains purely aesthetic, or at least not overly op. We don't want people getting a huge advantage just cause they voted once and got lucky and say got some god gear, or something like that.

 

[FatPoulet]

Systems like these are best used and balanced when the items are purely (to not upset anyone) aesthetical. It would indeed be a great way to add collectibles.

And should they be tradable or not? Because a very cool and rare collectible selling for high quality items is basically the same as giving away high quality items...

 

[Wizardteepot]

Well, currently, stuff like lore scrolls and stat tracking aren't tradable (at least, to my knowledge). So, unless the whole system needs to be reworked and a lot if code needs to be dumped in, I'd say they should just remain untradable.

 

[Magpieman]

Regarding voting there are a few reasons we have not pushed it in the past. Firstly we do not like spamming everyone reminding them to vote and telling them other players have voted. But we do need to remind players and encourage new players to do so in some way if we want a voting system to work.

The second reason is we do not think voting makes much of a difference to the traffic Loka receives. We know we cannot compete with mini game servers or factions who provide in-game advantages when voting. Therefore we will not make it on the first few pages on these sites. Every little helps yes, but we do not feel its worth it for the downsides of chat spam about voting.

Then the last problem is we cannot add our own aesthetic items to Loka. We would never add vote to win or pay to win to the server. We are very very limited with what rewards we give out and would prefer to use these for other things. This could be a prowess shop for playing VOTA or planned features in the future.

Having said this we are always open to ideas so if you can think of ways around these problems we are all ears.