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Bear wrote:Like in Maple Story, they have the Cash shop, you can use money to buy special items.

As long as the items don't give any advantages I'm cool with it. It should be more like "look I donated to this project" instead of "I paid for this superweapon and now I own you all! Muha!".

Maybe a t-shirt with "I donated to TMW and all I got was this lousy in-game t-shirt" printed on it.
Although you couldn't see the text on it in the game. It would just show like a t-shirt with a TMW logo on it and the description would say what it says. Maybe we could have bronze, silver and gold shirts.

Bronze: < 10$ donated
Silver: 10-50$ donated
Gold: > 50$ donated

A gold shirt? I dunno how that would look...

They could be red, green and blue... I don't care.

That'd be kinda discrimination amongst the donators and would create the pressure to donate more. I don't think that's a good idea per se.

I'd just settle for the merchandising.

Something like this?

I seriously like that shirt design, but I guess we could work on the text a bit..

mmmm. Thats a good idea. You could raise money by having a clothing store where you buy clothes (or you could buy them in-game, but they are very expensive). This doesn't mean that you shouldn't be able to find clothes in game, its just that the shop should offer exclusive material. It could be an non-expensive way to raise money for TMW, giving something back to the people who buy it.

"Moichandising, moichandising, where the real money from the MMORPG is made. TMW the T-shirt, TMW the Coloring Book, TMW the Lunch box, TMW the Breakfast Cereal...TMW, the Flame Thrower!" *FOOOOOSHHH*

'Ooooohhhh...'

if that flamethrower is in-game, i'd want one... heck, actually i want one irl too
now, where's to the merchant selling oversized "lord helmet"-style headgear?

What would be awesome is Plushies! Ragnarok has porings(Pink jelly balls >.>), as we have Maggots XD

we definitely need a more representational creature than a maggot as our symbol critter...

The fire goblin would be great if it didn't resemble certain Pok?Mon too much.

And I like the maggots..

I think there should be ways for the original TMW dev team to make money (donations, premium accts etc.) but have all the money go to a) sourceforge or b) getting good servers.

I'm against players gaining advantages via real cash. At least on the official server (which should in our case be more of a guideline for other server keepers, imho). I have no issue with an another server doing this and benefitting from it even if no money finds it's way to me.

Draicone wrote:I think there should be ways for the original TMW dev team to make money (donations, premium accts etc.) but have all the money go to a) sourceforge or b) getting good servers.

Maybe they could make money using advertisements.

Kill a slime, get a "Mars Bar".

Kill a dragon, get a case of "Budwiser".

Recuperate your character in a "Ramada Inn".

Travel to another area using a "Greyhound Bus".

Enhance your characters stats with some "herbal viagra".