You should give us more chances to earn 'coins.' Also have badges for doing certain things, and whenever you achieve a badge, you earn so many 'coins' compared to how hard the task was to get that badge. You should also give brand new memebers a certain amount of coins to start out with, about 500? Other than that, i think you ghys are doing an awesome job :3 It reminds me a lot of gaiaonline. Oh, and maybe you could have an original game, like how gaiaonline.com has zOMG, maybe you could make a story line for your admin characters (like the ones that show up at the shops) and make a game that goes along with that, or quests through out the site between these characters (in which you get rewards or badges for.) I hope ive been of help!

Gold is easy to earn once you get into the swing of things. I hang out in the Nations forum a lot and once you get into a good thread with good conversation, you earn gold quickly. If you roleplay too, roleplaying is a good fast way to earn gold.

Starter gold is a bad idea. I like the fact that everyone starts off with nothing and has to earn what they want. There's the Newbie shop that has cheap clothing so it does not take too long to get clothes for your avatar. Also, if you buy from the Marketplace or people in the exchange some times you can find pretty good deals.

If I remember right there was an "invitation" system that gave people gold for inviting people... and it got abused horribly... I think the 500g would cause an extreme rush of illegal mules just to get the 500g.

Storyline? Actually, there is a storyline. Typically it involed Nalin, Abel (Cain prefers Abel), and Mr. Mayor running from fangirls during the entire event and Yumeh (our star mascot) running from newbies XD. So to put it simply. We can interact with the storyline if we speak to them.

Games? We do have original games. Attack of the Fangirls, uhh... the fishing one, sardine smash, the space one, and the running one. (sorry I don't really play the games too much). Those are all original... and quite hilarious might I add. (fart propulsion donkey anyone?)

oh, yeah, if you chat it up you can earn a ton of goldies in a short time.
if you role play it's even easier to do it.
keep on chatting, you'll be amazed.

What you'll soon find, and its hard to grasp at first after coming from gaia so no blames I promise. You'll find that gold goes farther. The most expensive item here only costs roughly 200-300k. And thats like the rarity of the halo to gaia. You can earn 250 gold in the games per day (500 if you play with your mule as well) and you'll find that within a few days of that and chatting to people you'll have a nice outfit.

Gold is already incredibly easy to earn here and we already have so many ways of doing so (posting, games, Facebook likes etc.) so I don't really think that starter gold is needed. Especially as we already have a lot of cheap newbie clothes that you can buy as soon as you create your welcome thread with the 50g bonus that you get. :)

Also, we already have some original games with site NPCS. :) Attack of the Fangirls, Mad Gallop, Spazewalk, Harbour Fishing and Sardine Smash are all games that include some of our site's NPCs (Afrodonkey, Peeblo, Yumeh etc.) :)

As soon as you get chatting with people, the gold piles in! You'll really be surprised :)

I do agree with you (somewhat) on the achievements. I think it would be a fantastic addition to the site. Rather than get gold for it, however, I'd prefer we got little badges (sort of like on Ernya) and a special currency to get achievement items.

I found that being new at first it was hard to make gold. It's not like you can just jump straight into the swing of things and feel welcomed. Also having some gold would help keep people interested and stay to work things out. Also I think a few items of clothes would have been good too. I ended up buying ci's and selling them to get gold so I wasn't naked . Still getting used to the site though.

Things do cost a bit of gold and when you are starting out it takes ages to get anywhere and boredom can set in. I've already found this place has many mules so don't think you could ever stop that when it seems to be encouraged for somethings.

I do think though there should be a cheap shop with only mennie items for sale or ability of buying any item with mennies as well as gold.

_Mem_: Everyone here tries their best to make new users feel welcome. :) Is there anything (other than starter clothes or gold) that you feel we could have done better to integrate you into the site?