Research and development

[Astyanax]

An idea for the next reset, to help with uses of money on the 1% side...

 

Research and development

After a reset, the selection of items and equipment would be modest, but functional. Players can donate money and experience to R&D to hasten introduction of new types of items. Donations may be general (split evenly among all item types [e.g., guns, bombs, addons, etc.]) or targeted (for a premium, donors may select a class of equipment [e.g., bombs] to support. After donations reach an unstated(?) threshold, the item becomes available for purchase.

 

Note that specific items can't be researched, only item types. The item that becomes available may not be exactly expected. For instance, highest available bomb is HE missile, but the next bomb researched could be equivalents for Tau, Smart, or some yellow prox bomb. Another example might be researching new ships... the next ship developed could either be a terrier, spider, or weasel, but there is no certainty.

 

Donors may receive a % discount, possibly based on the amount donated... maybe a % discount of 0.25*[amount donated]/[total donations]

Edited May 8, 2012 by Astyanax

[Cheese]

good idea, but entirely too difficult to implement

[spidernl]

Not really all that difficult to implement, just a fair bit of work changing HSCore.

[Cheese]

work = difficult

[Astyanax]

Another implementation might be for players to donate towards additional temporary HS features, such as +1 priv size for a week, global x1.5 kill money for a week, or 15% less experience loss when gifting for 1 week.

 

Little things that players already want that might be a slightly broken, except they can actually have them for a little while if they're willing to pay the price...

Edited May 9, 2012 by Astyanax