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Here are some possible things that both exist and could exist to help alleviate this. As for what a \"subscription\" would cost, I don't know (no more than 1-5$ / mo). This is just a brainstorming thread. **With my current set of beliefs, the game will not be pay to play, nor pay to win**, but it might be \"pay to access some [optional] content.\" The game will also, **always** be open source. No exceptions.\r\n\r\nI also want to be very clear: **I have strong doubts of this game being super duper profitable**; all I'm looking to do short term is cover the costs of the infrastructure so the game can keep innovating. I plan to take any earnings and invest them back into the game **unless** it takes off, in which case it will probably have to get turned into a proper business (or adopted into my current legal entity).\r\n\r\nHere are some possible avenues for revenue generation:\r\n\r\n* Donate button\r\n* Patreon\r\n* recurring payments through another medium\r\n* \"stretch goal\" unlocking (patreon goal: unlock X class for everyone! -- otherwise, only donators would get it)\r\n* microtransactions (but really, what can you microtransaction here?)\r\n* player run advertisements getting priority (they could still make them normally, but they wouldn't have any sort of priority)\r\n* running player advertisements into X players adventure logs, or via IRC.\r\n\r\nHere are some possible benefits:\r\n\r\n* Change your class at will (provided you've been that class before).\r\n* Buy a teleport to (nearly) anywhere at any time.\r\n* More ways for players to keep on top of their data (RSS feeds, more)\r\n* More integrations with other services\r\n* subscriber-only worlds (and by extension: boss gear, classes, guild locations, etc)\r\n* Data feeds offered to other developers who want a live feed of IdleLands updates in their game\r\n* larger inventories\r\n* exclusive guild hall (seats all buildings)\r\n* larger adventure log\r\n* higher item stat caps\r\n* titles\r\n* free boost to town crier events\r\n* fame\r\n* VIP access to content (1 month preview)\r\n* a special pet \r\n* less time between actions (9 seconds instead of 10, for example)\r\n* discount on in-game items (via shop, guild shop, guild buffs, etc)\r\n* always online player\r\n* access to a subscriber-only IRC server\r\n* the ability to remove providences at will\r\n* access to the \"clubhouse\" (not yet created) which could have a bunch of trainers or other miscellaneous benefits\r\n* optionally receive a daily/hourly summary of your character\r\n* access to a bouncer on the subscriber only IRC server\r\n\r\nThings that will never happen:\r\n\r\n* (automated*) Advertisements of any form on any website (If there is a relevant site that wants to advertise to idlelands, that would be fine)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/IdleLands/IdleLandsOld/issues/comments/241801707","html_url":"https://github.com/IdleLands/IdleLandsOld/issues/708#issuecomment-241801707","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/IdleLands/IdleLandsOld/issues/708","id":241801707,"user":{"login":"seiyria","id":763609,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/763609?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/seiyria","html_url":"https://github.com/seiyria","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seiyria/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seiyria/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seiyria/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seiyria/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seiyria/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seiyria/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seiyria/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seiyria/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seiyria/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-08-23T17:01:15Z","updated_at":"2016-08-23T17:01:15Z","body":"People could also be added to a special add-on section to the hall of heroes, if desired."}}
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