NO U!!!
I had over 1k minerals and was soo freacknig near to get my Name Color!!
THAT, IS, UNCOOL!!!!
Plus, there is no new Game for us, poor community

Will you shut up about minerals. Jesus. Nobody cares. We ALL had minerals. Now, NONE of us have them. Deal with it.

says the guy with a name color...

if you want a better star:

Also, when I modify, I get:
Though I'm sure you already know this.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Feb 2 2009, 12:38 am by rockz.

Yeah, name color has absolutely nothing to do with the current mineral situation.

I will fixy things, just give me a moment.
I had to take a nap ;o

No, I had completely forgot to add that column on sen. Thanks.

I really didn't do anything. Besides maintain the bug list and constantly bother IP to fix them.


Let's rip minerals out and be done with it.

Yes, please.

If we disable minerals, we can't play the Games heh?

And the downside is?

As long as you let me keep my name color and keep it somewhat rare, I don't mind with removing minerals. Just... find some other way to get PM space, please. I deleted like 100 already. And I used one of those PM items I bought for when they were like 40 minerals.

nice.

I really meant for them to be in smaller increments and cost a lot less.
Serves me right for not making the store. Oh well.

Eh. I think that the name color should be expensive (now that I have it and all minerals are wiped, of course I do ), but items like avatar and such, being basic forum features, as well as things like PM space (Do you guys really have problems with enough space? Having an open DLDB, I rather doubt it) should be less expensive, maybe ~200 each.

I was referring to PM space increases. Possibly even something like increments of +10 with StarCraft upgrade-style pricing.

My general idea behind minerals was to gradually accquire stuff unique to your account. (which is why I would rip out transfer of minerals and items) Someone wouldn't run around and register 60 accounts because they wouldn't be able to keep their stuff. Meaningful punishments. And cool stuff for people that deserve it. Meaningful rewards. Control. That sort of thing. Far beyond a silly game.

I wanted minerals to flow better in the last system, and flow they did. Especially since a lot of people handed out their minerals to other people.
I suppose it did cause an inflation of sorts in store prices.

In the new system, minerals will flow ultra slow and store prices will drop considerably to reflect that. It'll allow for better control.
As far as what moose just said, I plan on doing. Smaller iterations, smaller costs, and probably an upgrade factor (10 minerals for 30 pms, 10+3 for 30 more, 10+6 for the next 30...).

Edit: Practically ninja'd!
And yeah, what moose just said again. No more sending of the minerals.

Ah. Yes, that's a good idea. Wait, so we can't send minerals any more? What's the problem with flow?

Flow essentially allows members to reward each other, much like the Karma system. It allows for competitions like survival. I don't really see how inflation could be caused by this, especially when there's a sending tax (albeit small). What, it went from the people who wouldn't use it to those who would?

If you take out sending minerals, you need to add something to let people donate to contests. Or better yet, just don't take it out.

Oh, someone broke /a in the shoutbox.

What was /a to begin with?

The only problem is that it is not very reasonable to expect everyone to start out as a "new member" when we aren't. Perhaps if it could reference off v4 data (if you had it..)