Since the economy on the site is screwed up (which is kind of bull because this is starcraft not 2009 economy) I suggest we can rent SCV's for a certain amount of time that mine us minerals depending on how long we rent them, that way we can get minerals faster and not complain so much about store prices.
Of course we would have to rent them with vespene gas, that could be aquired through making posts that would last a long time and be important (NOT INCLUDING "What the heck are you listening to?" and other null topics)

Or perhaps you can leave it to random chance in the forum games, or actually post well-thought out and relevant posts in topics that merit such discussion.

I don't understand this obsession with minerals, I just give mine all to Corbo for contests.

Though I've been very anti-mineral in the past, I now understood that there is a point in having them - donating to contests and tournaments. Though they are useless to me (when disabled, of course), maybe they can stimulate someone else into making something beneficial to the mapping community.

I enabled them again, but it is a bit annoying that I can't have an avatar or a title now. It will take me quite some time to get them back again. It still is unclear to me why can't the admins allow everyone have atleast a small avatar and a title. One of the arguments that seemed logical is that such a system makes it impossible for peoploe who just came here once or twice to waste our gigabytes, but that can be easily fixed by coding in a feature that removes avatars from people who were inactive for longer than X days.

Stupid idea is stupid.

Smart idea is smart.

Why do I say this? Well, the first one defeats the purpose of minerals, at least partially. Also, how would you decide what threads merit getting vespane gas? Leave it up to the mods? They don't have unlimited time. And, SCVs costing gas? WTF? The second one, however, actually helps SEN.

And btw, Probe > SCV.

It would be funny if there was like, an scv a probe and a drone. Three workers for EVERYBODY on sen. You get 8 minerals every 8 hours if you have it or something. And the only way to get it is by stealing them from other people. Each worker has a different way to be stolen from the person that has it. You can only have one worker maximum at a time. When it's stolen you get a notice but it doesn't tell you who stole it. Then they could leave a message in that notice to taunt you further. "HAHAH YOUR SCV IS MIEN NUB :3"


EDIT: Maybe it would be cool if like after you've had the worker for a maxium time that you lose it and it gets hidden in the magic box's or a raffle ticket.

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Jan 5 2009, 10:42 pm by Pigy_G.

MOOSEY DO THAT!!!! That would be SOOO funny. And epic.

EDIT:
I assume you mean "One of each for the whole SEN", not "One of each for person"...

Yes I corrected it, thanks for pointing that out.

I agree that minerals are kind of useless, I liked when avatars, titles, and signatures were free but you could buy shadow and color names and titles. I think you get minerals pretty fast, Ive gotten like 250 in about a month... (well i guess thats not that fast)

I say more games. Sen Slots? line up 3 zerglings (or mudkips or what ever the hell those are) and win some mins!

As of five posts ago in this topic I do not support this idea anymore, I just threw it out there for the public.
Mods can close this if they want, I think minerals are stupid period, Why should people have to buy a signature and more space for an avatar? I would understand more space for PM's or colored names, but for a signature and a 20KB avatar is just stupid.

I don't really care. I used it as an example

Agreed.

Sometimes I wonder if I was lying when I said avatars are free.
Normally I'd threaten to instantly ban anyone perpetuating the idea that avatars are not free, but it's been a fairly long time since someone has suggested it.

My avatar wasn't free.

Is that why there's a Signature Enabler and Title Enabler sold in the store but not an Avatar Enabler?

I had to buy my stuff from the store. People like DTBK got noticed for cheating by purchasing items for negative minerals.

I've never done that

has anyone gotten their dldb or portal advertising to work? Mine breaks.

Portal advertising isn't implemented, but the DLDB advertising has always worked for me (I've used three of them).

A crappy extremely low size avatar is free. You shouldn't have to pay for more space for an avatar, you should just have a limit on how much KB it is.

I think the 3 stealable workers is a really cool idea.

Maybe we should make a thread about it. We'd need to include how you can steal the workers.

That thing would be sooooooo cool... And probably pretty easy to implement, too.