Another Community Outreach Message

[Jalau]

I had an idea awhile back of donation goals, not really rewarding the individuals who donate but the entire community. Seeing the monthly costs, if that goal is met for say 3 months have a double xp weekend for the community similar to the Christmas event.

That would be really great. A good example is the new EULA of Minecraft, that says you aren't allowed to sell pay to win stuff anymore as a server owner. So most servers switched to cosmetic items and stuff like epic effects ingame. Maybe you could add ideas like Team Fortress 2 did (Strange Weapons that count kills and other stats and also hats/armor with epic effects etc), also most Minecraft Servers now sell whole Network Booster (One buys it, activates it for a hour and everyone gets double /triple the exp/gold etc) that could maybe destroy the game but maybe there are some ideas that aren't too op that still don't make donators receive more then visual or global buffs/features. Make being a donator more intresting and feeling awesome without giving any pay to win advantages.

[Alpha]

I personally look forward to the release of Bannerlord and do expect us to carry over NordInvasion to its new modding system (I hope it lives up to expectations).

I really want to help this time. Not only whit map making.

[Jalau]

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I personally look forward to the release of Bannerlord and do expect us to carry over NordInvasion to its new modding system (I hope it lives up to expectations).

I really want to help this time. Not only whit map making.
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I could also help, just need to read up the scripting language of bannerlord then. If it's uses a language like c# or c++ instead of a custom scripting one I would need to read up nothing but the api.

[Jalau]

I am not talking about breaking the game with xp every single time some donates x amount of dollars cause that would be pointless. What I was saying is if... [quote author=Kip link=topic=42512.msg228072#msg228072 date=1428880359]

North America

53 EUR

~56 USD

One dedicated server

Current donations: ~8 EUR

The NA servers cost $56 a month, set the goal to be $168 USD which can provide 3 months of the server charges. Same concept with EU, and AU servers. I really don't expect the dev team to add a sparkle every time I shoot an arrow, or anything outside the lore of the mod.
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I don't say that you need to expect this but most games that aren't pay to win do it like that.

[Rezev]

Add Pay Safe Card donation option.  ;D
Many people don't have paypal.

[Telemachus]

Or don't really trust Paypal security, some people just don't or their parents wont let them.  What would be wonderful, but don't know if doable, would be a "purchase donation" via Steam.  People can gift games, why can't they gift donations to mods? 

Here's a question - If you do shift the mod over to Bannerlord, if and when it is released, will everyone get to keep their characters/levels/gear; or do we have to start over from scratch?

[Nka19]

Or don't really trust Paypal security, some people just don't or their parents wont let them.  What would be wonderful, but don't know if doable, would be a "purchase donation" via Steam.  People can gift games, why can't they gift donations to mods? 

Here's a question - If you do shift the mod over to Bannerlord, if and when it is released, will everyone get to keep their characters/levels/gear; or do we have to start over from scratch?

Most likely scratch, as it's a new game, and wouldn't be more fun to start over on a new game to experience full fun of it?

[BlackSniper]

Would be great if you bring the Donators Torch back. I'm sure many would donate some money to get it and to help the mod

[BlackSniper]

I agree. New players also like to have exclusive items like the Donators Torch. I'm sure that there are plenty of models we could use as Donators item:
http://forum.nordinvasion.com/index.php?board,77.0.html

[Jalau]

Yeah, like a "Skin" selector for items also maybe so if you have the item another item with same stats but a diffrent model can be chosen.