There are limits, either per day or life time on how much you can earn for forum activity.
That rule is mainly in place due to people in the past "bidding up" their own auctions in the trade boards. We will still monitor for shady activity like that.
Lets offer a chance for @Larisa, @Zuckuss, or @Ron Bron to answer that one and see if it differs from my own answer.
Nexus is like big brother... Always watching!
What's really sad... I do that, and work full time, and attend college full time.
It actually helps me sleep.... Usually I have so much rattling around it's difficult unless I mentally exhaust myself.
Stickies will work the way they always have, that's not an issue. You'll be able to book mark Pages and Posts, and if you have book marks for uo.stratics.com or uo2.stratics.com for now they will still work. We won't have everything moved from those pages at launch, as many have to be manually copied from one site to the other (namely the uo.stratics.com content) due to there being no available way to convert their existing database format to the one we will be using. It will be a long process but we will get it done.
Paypal is the only method for now, but you don't have to open a PayPal account to use it. If you go to Purchase Trinkets, you can go to the PayPal page and there is an option to use a Debit or Credit card without having an account. I can talk to the Owner and see if he is looking into alternative payment methods, but at this time the only alternative is to passively gain Trinkets, or create Articles and Guides that are publish to gain the Trinkets faster than the passive gains.
Thank you for the clarification.
For the time being we are sticking with PayPal for checkout because they are secure, well known, and it also avoids the need for Stratics to see or retain billing information. As Nexus mentioned, you can also use normal credit card processing via the PayPal gateway without the need to ever create a Paypal account.
For most users it won't change anything. It's replacing "Stratics Pro" in a sense where people contribute either monetarily or through contributing their own Articles and Guides will be able to reap a few extra rewards. Mainly at this time that consists of creating their own User Groups which will have a Wall, Calendar, Group Chat Box, and a Single Forum. These User Groups will fall under RoC but won't be moderated by us, they can be set to hidden meaning they require an invitation to see, or private which means people can see there is a group there, but not access it without an invitation, or they can apply to a private group and not gain access to it unless the application is approved.
I am also, shall we say, less than enthusiastic. But I'm old, and my love/hate relationship with the increasing complexity of things in general (in both worlds) is steadily nudging that scale over to the negative side. As I stated in another post somewhere, I have decided to embrace my obsolescence. My approval or participation is certainly not needed by anyone.
its not that bad, only costs 1 trinket to upload a pic. makes alot of business sense because all those pics add up and take alot of server space.
No one would be forced to go to another site, you can still embed images. It's uploading them to our server that costs. For example.
only thing you really need trinkets for is groups, and i cant really see many people using that option unless they are a die hard. currently i really dont think it will be a problem for me, i only post around 4-5 pics a week. Only person i can see it being a problem for is someone who doesnt use the forum muchs except solely to post pics of many pieces of armor.
Everyone imported is starting from 0, though there are a lot of ways to earn them from the go, Social Group you join gives you 5, so if you join the Ultima Online group that's 5, then there are the individual Shard Groups, another 5 for each one. Just by joining all the UO related groups there's the possibility of 150.
For now Groups are all we have in place, we're looking at other features to add in the near future.
You could always write articles about any MMO you wish or Guides for our supported titles, you don't have to pay money, but Stratics is not an image hosting service.
Until they tell me I can't tell you.
i was already gonna gamecast cuz flutter asked me too. was gonna gamecast league of legends. since yall rules for gamecasting uo i would have a hard time doing because of vent conversations etc because i pvp mostly. nothing came out of it. ,i was kind of upset. but meh its whatever. id still gamecast league for yall. would that do anythign for trinkets etc?
Actually it may, we're going to be opening up a Group for LoL with the new site, once we have everything up and ready I'll get with you on it.
good deal. im a pm away and most of the people here know me anyways and how to get ahold of me. flutter. giggles. soulweaver. mithryyl elves. sage of wisdom. norrington. im not hard to find =0 thank you for your time
I'll get clarification on that from the boss once he's home from his 9-5
Excellent suggestion. As @Nexus mentioned, just by logging in the first time and joining a couple groups, you will likely end up with 30-50 trinkets and for most people, they will never run out, but will net positive each day. It wouldn't hurt to start everyone at a positive number though, instead of 0, so we will see if we can do a bulk operation like that. Good suggestion.
It actually won't cost you anything. You can make unlimited posts, and will actually gain trinkets for logging in, joining the Atlantic group, starting topics, and replying to topics. You would only be charged 1 trinket per image upload (50 trinkets can be purchased for $1).
From the TOS,
Sounds like a dumb childish system, but can probably be ignored like most of the other Stratics "features" in the past.
I wouldn't be so hard on the old staff, they operated under different slightly different goals and with an owner with a different approach than we are. Some had been around long enough I feel safe saying there were probably a bit burnt out, but they were and still remain for good people.
Im a little confused, if "private" groups are really private, why would the ROC matter or how would it even be enforced?
Largely the RoC will apply the way it does now, for public groups. With all groups, the enforcement would be handled by the group owner, Myself, in the new role as Community Manager (and possibly one or two people when and if the need arises) will be doing spot checks on community managed groups or if there is an issue reported from members of a group I'll/we'll be looking to it.
