VIP Items?!

Hi-hi, FTRP Community!

So I am going to make this as short-and-sweet as I possibly while getting the message across.

For as long as I can remember, the only changes that have ever been made to the VIP shop was the VIP Item of the Month. If you don't know what that is, the VIP Item of the Month is an item up for sale on a monthly basis with a given price. Often times, these items are premade and detailed, usually meeting up to it's value in CC. But even the Item of the Month is on and off when it comes to it's monthly routine.

The suggestion I am making today involves a lot of rearranging of the VIP shop but all in all, little harm. Let's start with the current options the shop give you:

VIP Statuses :

Possible Bundles:

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Possible Items:

My Suggestions?
- Consider all of the above.
- Consider making it so that the VIP status is universal for all accounts owned by that primary user. (Meaning, you aren't VIP on just one account, but all of your accounts)

For sub fourm Would like to say might wanna go high end price on that since dont want a ton of them around. Isnt places we dont have already for unknown lands?

I can agree with a re-arrangement and adding some more things to buy.
However, I think we should remove VIP priority (because wtf even is it?)
I would also say that no this shouldn't be for all accounts.

I also wouldn't mind more VIP positions

Bump.

Shard wrote:I can agree with a re-arrangement and adding some more things to buy.
However, I think we should remove VIP priority (because wtf even is it?)
I would also say that no this shouldn't be for all accounts.

I also wouldn't mind more VIP positions

I think someone who purchases a VIP status including "VIP Priority" gets that little cut in price if they want to purchase another VIP status. For example, if someone buys God VIP for $250, but wants to buy Mythical VIP later on, they will only have to pay another 250 for it instead of the initial $500 (or so the value is, I think). It's either that, or access to anything that'd only be available for people who have purchased statuses.

I second the point on VIP not being universal for all accounts, as that would defeat the purpose of only getting a set number of benefits for purchasing a status. It would also encourage those interested in VIP statuses to rank-up quickly so they can make additional accounts, while I know that (even though it's unlike myself in some ways), some are more into their character's story than getting into the job system ASAP.

Just as I include on all other counterarguments I've made on suggestions, I apologise if this sounds aggressive. Oh, and I second Shard's first point too!

Chrono wrote:

Shard wrote:I can agree with a re-arrangement and adding some more things to buy.
However, I think we should remove VIP priority (because wtf even is it?)
I would also say that no this shouldn't be for all accounts.

I also wouldn't mind more VIP positions

I think someone who purchases a VIP status including "VIP Priority" gets that little cut in price if they want to purchase another VIP status. For example, if someone buys God VIP for $250, but wants to buy Mythical VIP later on, they will only have to pay another 250 for it instead of the initial $500 (or so the value is, I think). It's either that, or access to anything that'd only be available for people who have purchased statuses.
Yeah, that's actually how it works price-wise

I second the point on VIP not being universal for all accounts, as that would defeat the purpose of only getting a set number of benefits for purchasing a status. It would also encourage those interested in VIP statuses to rank-up quickly so they can make additional accounts, while I know that (even though it's unlike myself in some ways), some are more into their character's story than getting into the job system ASAP.

Just as I include on all other counterarguments I've made on suggestions, I apologise if this sounds aggressive. Oh, and I second Shard's first point too!

To be honest.. I'd rather there be an option where you could "buy H Rank for 1 account" as a separate entity for much cheaper than the bundle, itself.

If we make H-Rank purchasable, I'd say you'd have to be S-Rank beforehand. Buying Regular VIP Status only gets you the easiest rank to acquire (C-Rank) after all, while buying it for B-Rank will only tick one job off your list. From what I've seen, the current H-Ranked role-players here are some of the oldest, so making H-Rank purchasable would almost make their extreme devotion seem like nothing, compared to a single day you can spend to get C-Rank, or a week to get B-Rank - the amount of time it takes to get each rank only appears to increase per rank after that. I hope you understand. I am in no way intending to ridicule your idea, but rather countering it, just as I countered a point or two about the initial suggestion here.

I don't think Ana means buying H rank, Chrono. I'm pretty sure she means buying the ability to hit H rank without paying the full $25 for VIP and getting a bunch of other unnecessary stuff with it. Make it like $5 just to be able to hit H-rank. Seems fair, since you don't get the $5.33 worth of jewels, 350 exp and don't get access to demon or god slayer positions.

VIP priorty means that if someone with VIP applies for something at the same time as someone else without VIP, they'd get it. I was told this by an old member when it was actually a thing that happened. c.c Now a days, it's not really looked at.

To be fair.. VIP priority probably isn't taken into consideration.  So it's removal wouldn't effect a thing, TBH.

But yes, what Almyra said was true.