[zenith]

I like the ideas. Yes I wanted to hear people's thoughts. And no I did not intend to belittle the person's mail to me in the forums... I wanted to get an honest response and path to a solution. I love our community, since everyone actually cares about the game. We don't suffer the same ills as many of the games like us, mostly because you guys (and gals) are so great.

I honestly don't expect more donators per 100 sign-ups than we have been getting. I also don't expect 100% of our active players to stick around the entire time. Our sign-up rate > active player > donator percentages have been very consistent since we began, so it's really just a numbers game on getting as many people to see the game as possible. Those who decide they like it here stick around.

Endurance effects on training
Endurance bonus to training has always been around, but one particular person has done a phenomenal job at maximizing it. They didn't find a bug, they found a better way either by stumbling upon it or reading the forums. This was intentional coding on my part, but I did not foresee someone pumping up the endurance the way that has happened.

Endurance bonuses decrease with level, and again this has been since the game began. Endurance bonuses will probably need to be affected by happiness more so than it is now. In fact, perhaps there should be no bonus if your happiness isn't 100%.

Donations
I hope everyone understands that yes donators should have an advantage, and never in my wildest dreams did I think someone would pass Casanova in donations. Yes donations keep us afloat, but we finally bypassed just remaining afloat last month for the first time.


Future Additions
I am working on a redo of jobs, crimes, and education (which hopefully is the next game update) to reward activity. This was already in the works before reading the posts here, it just takes time to make something balanced, even more time now since we have more players. Err has been working on an alteration to our permanent stat mod code to provide "temporary" stat modifications. We don't want to run the risk most other games fall into by releasing new additions without properly testing to see if it works.

I don't want to lead players on to speculate what changes will happen. But someone donating to the top has already happened in the past. There was no remedy as it basically ended in a wipeout of him and a bunch of upset players. But the players who enjoyed playing stuck with us and are still here.