Bonus for bringing new players?

[pooper200000]

I know that graal is spread by word of mouth mostly. I was wondering do the players get some form of bonus if they bring x accounts to the game and they become p2p?

[Chompy]

never heard of it.

[Waltz5]

Nope. Unix was planning on implementing a referral system. Basically you would get "x" amount of points for a certain number of referals and then could "buy" things like extended gold/vip time, or items on GK (or Fairyland). He told me "we have already technically implemented
but we need to decide what object to sell and not unbalance the game." That was about 1 1/2 years ago so who the heck knows.

[WanDaMan]

People would easilly abuse this system.

[pooper200000]

Originally Posted by WanDaMan

People would easilly abuse this system.

if they were to bring players and the players upgraded only.

[Tom]

Alot of other games AND forums work like this, its a good system. Good job you brought it up also.

[pooper200000]

1. Can anyone naswer if they know of any bonuses in place?
2. Thank sam for changing the title I kind of made a boo-boo when I made the title.

[Spark910]

They could do rewards based on groups of referals.

So, 1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 7-9, 10-15, 16-25 or whatever, then it's less abuseable as there is not a reward for each referal as such, and they can set a maximum, say 100 in a year, or space the last groups out far, like 100, 200, 300 etc...

[Chompy]

but what would the reward be? ...

[Tyhm]

Well, if it's the playerworlds bringing in new players, they could get a percentage...mind, I doubt it'd ever be enough to retire off of, but it's nice when your hobby buys you a cappucino now and then...
The players, well, gold time, VIP time...I have my own issues with VIP, but that's me...a dev server...
Oh, and if Global Gralats take off, you could get those...

[Rufus]

Like I said in http://forums.graalonline.com/forums...ad.php?t=69341, which seems to be slitting off into many different topics..

Referral systems are one of the most highly effective, yet inexpensive techniques used to generate a steady flow of customers. The referee, however, needs the proper incentive. What players need is encouragement to pay for Gold, as their money is the greatest factor to them. Helping them save some could be an effective form of incentive, wherein if a player 'recruits' new members to Graal, he/she can be rewarded with say, 3 days on his/her Gold account per Gold signup.

With a requirement of the referal system being to recruit someone who then buys a Gold account to gain an incentive for yourself, the system would both benifit Graal and stop players from abusing.

Essentially, a few days added for free to an existing customer will do no harm, and a few new paying customers would surely make up for it.

[Tyhm]

Hmm, I wonder...how easy is it to make one of those php sites, you know, with like 'u=Tyhm#upgrade'? It's a little thing, but it'd make things smoother if the upgrading player isn't asked to remember the proper accountname of the person who refered them - especially for people with hard to remember accountnames. It's petty, but everything that streamlines the process even a little is worth the effort.

[Draenin]

A text field could always be inserted where a user is asked after they pay for a subscription who referred them to the game. If they enter a user's name, the point would ge given to whoever that is. The reward shouldn't be server-specific, however, because certain people might not like certain servers and so on.

[Mykel]

1 month of VIP (or gold?) per upgraded referral?

Sounds fair.

[Rufus]

Originally Posted by Mykel

1 month of VIP (or gold?) per upgraded referral?

Sounds fair.

No it doesn't, lol.