Recent Changes/Updates and Thoughts

[IvanXLIV]

(04-23-2017, 10:00 AM)JCF Wrote: The big thing that starting with $0 is supposed to prevent is creating a zillion alts with $1000 and sending them en masse like cattle to a stripper/rodeo slaughter. Granted, that's still possible if you've shelled out cash for premium accounts, but that was never the strategy.

At this point, I believe ALL new non-premium accounts start with $0. I was told of plans to allow totally new players to start with a "guest" account in the future, as well as $1000. But for now, I'd expect suite parties to make a comeback (especially when room shower sex is implemented) until the economy finally stabilizes because as a complete newbie that'll be your best bet for possibly seeing a bed outside of generous clans/clubs.

Hello All.

I am deeply disappointed, and strongly disagree with, the decision to make all new non-Premium accounts starts the game with no money. This will only drive away newcomers, who can no longer customize their avatars from the start (by buying another set of clothes, for instance) or rent an hotel room right away. I believe that for such a measure to be fair, the devs should have begun by implementing MANY more ways to earn money in-game... and on that particular topic, male avatars are still sorely neglected.

If the devs wanted to stop abusive money farming, they could have done so in so many other ways, here are a few examples:

• instead of allowing an existing, non-Premium account to create a new avatar every 24 hours, limit the creation of such avatars to one/week (even with someone with say, twenty accounts, this means cutting his/her "weekly profits" sevenfold, which is significant);
  
• put up a daily or weekly "earning cap" per account, something like: a given account can't amass more than 5,000$/week - by whatever means (newly created avatar, minigames, etc.);
  
• lower hotel room costs OR clothing/accessory costs (but not both). If things are more affordable, the need for money farming decreases accordingly. Allowing sex in "costless places" (i.e., not requiring you to rent a room) would help, too.
  

I've said it before: I'm a paying, Premium user, I've recently renewed my status for six months, and I have the means to purchase in-game money with the new bank feature... but I still think that earning money in-game is still too complicated and tedious with the current options offered by the game. Not everyone has the time to spend days playing the minigames to earn significant amounts of cash for long-term projects (I've never hid the fact that I'm piling up my moola for an appartment - and a house, if the devs eventually comes to it).

Just my two cents.

Ivan