[Thor]

Missed that last post of yours when I read the first time.

agamemnon Wrote:But, what I believe is happening here is that the super donators are advancing waaayyy beyond the non-donators and it is becoming more difficult for the non-donators to keep up.

It is not suppose to be equal between donators and non, we give money for that exact reason. Take that away from us and we will stop giving money and the site will die due to a lack of funds in no time.

Quote:Ideally, if we had several hundred players fairly tightly packed between, say, level 25 and 45 with a healthy spectrum of every level (especially top levels) dispersed amongst several gangs or gang families, it would be more competitive.

It will, in a while, these kind of games/sites didn't build in 1 day. There is already ~3X more players above lvl 20 then when I was 20.

Quote:But, I agree that it would get frustrating (thanks abysmal) when someone spends the same amount of hours in the game flies by you because he donated $200.00 in the past two months and you only donated $10.00 or could not afford to donate at all.

I got past 200$ months and months ago and I'm like 8th if not further for the total in donations. See why some people are faster or further than others now? You can't do jack about that, some people have money, others have none while a few have a ton of it.

Quote: But, I agree that sometimes the benefits from donating allow for too great of a chasm between the super-donators and minimal- or non-donators.

Maybe you'd prefer a game like Diablo 2 where the makers didn't give people the opportunity to go faster than average? and where [at least] 25% of the players found the bugs and weaknesses in the game and hacked it and now it's right behind casinos for the "most people that went bankrupt because of" list?
in that game, you can be lvl 99 in 3 days and be competitive with those who's been playing for 5 years if you can spare 500$. Want that? Me neither. This game is well built but every1 has to accept the fact that donators give money for 1 and only 1 reason, to be better and stronger than those who can't.