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agree with you and Alexunder

Lower price of supporter can make more proffit - because of more customers

to yodabig

In ex-USSR there much more territories )
So "in a few miles" - LOL )

I think it would be best to go with minimum salary($)... GDP isn't an accurate indicator to calculate the minimum standard of living.

Last edited by LA-Kampot at 5/30/2011 9:51:03 AM

And if people can afford to buy saporter for $ 40 then he will get angry because someone buys less than 20. We have different incomes.

I think we should lobby our respective governments to create a fund for BB supporter, a safety-net program for those that can't afford it. Rich countries could also provide funding for poorer countries, something like BB-Aid. Haven't heard anything out of Michael Moore recently, we could get BB funding and marketing at the same time!

Heh..yeah i was just kidding. I'm all for the BB's doing something to level the playing field on the cost of supporter.

i don't support the idea of categorizing countries but i have another suggestion..
the price of the Supporter package can be dynamic according to a formula..
the higher the percentage of people having Supporter in a country, the lower the price of the Supporter package will be in that country..

in this case, assume that Haiti joined the game and they have 5 active users with one of them being a USA citizen on vacation..
if this guy buys Supporter, %20 of the users in that country will have been supporting the game so three-months Supporter price will decrease to (let's say) $8..

personally this make the supporter package even more expensiv, in country where just a few people could afford it. the next thing is, that you maybe wait for other people making supporter before buying it. Maybe the other way round could make sense, that the first supportership in Haiti is pretty cheap, and it get more expensiv when some people have it - but also there i don't see much sense in it.

I´m all for Moutinos proposal, just with the following modification:

if you sign up your supportership on a tuesday, you get 10% special discount, unless it´s a third of the month, when you get only 15%, or on saturdays with full moon, then you get 20% plus one dollar for each cup round you survived in the season before last. Unless of course your starting name has a C in it, or it is your birthday, in which case you don´t get any discount at all.

To sum it up: what exactly is the idea behind your proposal? I don´t see ANY advantage of making the system any more complicated than necessary, nor that it makes any sense that the price you have to pay is changing all of the time (which it would be in your system, because sign ups and supportership sign ups especially in small markets would trigger BIG fluctuation in the prices over short periods of time).

Why are you against a discount system based on the "poverty" of a country at all, if you agree that a discount system itself could be useful? What´s the weak side of the "zones" model? And what´s the advantage of using up server stuff by inventing new, completely unasked for calculation of suppoertersship value?

How about a simple league system?

You have like ... 6 different prize categories. If percental supportership drops below a certain rate over a certain time, it might go one prize league lower (but not through the bottom, so every country has a "hard cap" in both directions), while it rises one level if it surpasses a certain level over a longer period of time. Prizes would regulate themselves given time like that.

Last edited by LA-seelenjaeger at 5/31/2011 1:11:05 PM