[LordSkie]

personally, I think it's an awful idea.

Simple answer being, the way the game's set up- a low level player has SOME chance of catching up. They have few advantages- cheaper energy refresh costs being the biggest, and low xp requirement to level being the other. The advantages high level players and donators have is vast amounts of extra energy and AP to train and do crimes (and well earned through time and money).

But to now give them a further advantage by increasing donator advantage to give more energy refresh for credits would not be good, at all. The only thing that balances people that can't drop $100 at will from those that can is the fact at lv 30+, energy refreshing purely to attack and train becomes EXTREMELY expensive. So they have to rely on their (already substantially higher) energy refresh rate. Which, to me, is ample.

The advantages to donating can be measured in cash (higher house), endurance (higher training) and donator status (higher refresh rate). No need to ramp this up any higher, IMO.

*edit*

Just read through a few posts, and I totally agree donators should have benefits. And they already have plenty. But there has to be some kind of cut off- does anyone here honestly think it would be fair to have, for example, an elite gun that can only be bought through a $200 donation? Making too big a divide between those that can and can't donate is a bad thing indeed, and you'll end up with a game where only rich people bother to play. Rafal has been playing this game solidly practically from it's inception without donating, yet (apart from level, which currently is the only thing donators don't have a huge advantage on, which is proposed to change) is way way behind on all stats. And I know him well, he's as active as can be.