Offering Gifts for Returning Players

[cbk1994]

A good start would be removing the penalties for quitting, such as allowing players to get their houses back after they fall.

[Drakeero]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

A good start would be removing the penalties for quitting, such as allowing players to get their houses back after they fall.

I think this would be a real good start. It's the reason why I quit for so long before eventually returning. I'd be back much faster if all my houses didn't go poof.

Until GK gets more content and more security with alternate accounts [if that's possible] offering rewards does sound a little easy to abuse and kind of a cheap "here, take some more token items! and maybe some other stuff ultimately unfulfilling because the server is so dead!" that might backfire. Let's see how many people will come back over time if there's some sort of "Home Insurance" where the house may disappear from the island maps for cleaning but can be reaccessed later.

Yeah yeah, I can guess. HUGE waste of resources on the server that'll add up fast storing all those. [Although haven't a lot of them been sitting around for ages anyway undeleted?] If houses have to eventually be deleted for the sake of server maintennance then make home insurance have some sort of tangible cost to help with that. Just make sure there's a free alternative: Like a traditional bank or some such that will hold a simple list of items rather then an entire level or three.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Drakeero

Yeah yeah, I can guess. HUGE waste of resources on the server that'll add up fast storing all those. [Although haven't a lot of them been sitting around for ages anyway undeleted?] If houses have to eventually be deleted for the sake of server maintennance then make home insurance have some sort of tangible cost to help with that. Just make sure there's a free alternative: Like a traditional bank or some such that will hold a simple list of items rather then an entire level or three.

Items from fallen houses are already stored indefinitely. Not sure about the levels themselves, but it's not a huge deal.

[Drakeero]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

Items from fallen houses are already stored indefinitely. Not sure about the levels themselves, but it's not a huge deal.

Awesome. Still like the bank idea for long term item storage but if houses can be saved I guess its a moot point.