[zafo999]

Just wanted to expand on this with some of the highlights from a little brainstorm we were having earlier about ideas for doing something with the POE. Like having it so that once you reach a certain amount of POE, you would "unlock" things like custom colors and tags. As opposed to spending the POE like money. This was part of the chat:



trying to think of what else besides custom tags before I post though... would we be able to allow larger avatar sizes or maybe more space in the signature area? ... kinda lame but taht's all I got...
Maybe different colored layouts for the whole site. Like, what do they call that. Shells?
[29-09, 15:05] TheChosen Yeah. With enough POE's, you can customize the colours of your Abandonia.
[29-09, 15:06] Kugerfang With enough PoE, you can bribe the police!
[29-09, 15:07] zafo999 Maybe we can start up an extra section buried away somewhere that restricts access to people who haven't got a lot of POE. A VIP area or like a Country Club where they talk about how much better they are than everyone else
[29-09, 15:09] zafo999 they don't have it anymore, but there were forums on www.fightersgeneration.com that had a money system like that. They had weekly lotteries you could enter, and you could get weapons and items and each post would list the characters "inventory". Just for kicks we could have unlockable inventory items that are famous items from like, adventure games and stuff. that would be appropriate!
[29-09, 15:10] zafo999 1000 POE gets you a choice between the Tiki Erection Statue from Leisure Suit Larry 3 or Wirt's Leg from Diablo
[29-09, 15:10] zafo999 etc etc etc
[29-09, 15:11] TheChosen I was once thinking about suggesting a mud where people would play and use their POE's to buy stuff like weapons, clothes, beer and stuff like that.
[29-09, 15:12] zafo999 that'd be cool




Also, inspired by the forums at www.gameartisans.org, I thought that we could create special tags or trophy icons for the winners of competitions or tournaments. Each one unique to the contest it represents, so forum members could start to accumulate kind of a trophy shelf associated with their account.

I like the lottery idea but a system like that would require that the POE be spent instead of used as an "achievement" system which would be easier to implement.