I heard from a friend (Surge) that he was on a server that would give you points toward a monthly prize from that server site. I thought I would throw it up for consideration to draw more players to the web site and our servers. Would this be a possible idea ? I don't know how you would keep track of individuals points, unless you can modify the stats program. I don't know what type of prizes to give out or if the donations that come in could support a prize.
Like I said, it's just idea that maybe we can expand on...
Just sponsor small tournies on your servers were the best 20 pubbers getting split up into teams, and the winning team each wins a free prize (something under $20 each).
Another thing to do is have it where everyone past x amount of hours on the servers is entered into a raffle. Since you kick spectators anyways it should be okay. Plus, even at night having a few idlers will help people stay on the server or at least try and join.
To answer Ruger's ? You could have one for each server TF2, DOD, COD4 or use it for the servers that are not staying live . But that decision I would think it would come from the leadership of the clan, first after discussing if this would encourage pubbers to use our servers and if it would draw on more pubbers to join the OWS.
As far as prizes are concerned, maybe something under 20 bucks, i.e. iTunes gift card, Walmart gift card, New Egg if they have one or OWS shirts or other items.
This could be also mentioned one the first page of the web site for new vistors, and possibly on the server ads during ingame play.
As a pubber, I don't like the idea of points per hour to get a prize. We have a lot of pubbers who play A LOT and only three people would end up getting the monthly prize. Or you would end up giving out dozens of monthly prizes per month because EVERYONE is upping their hours to win a prize.
We want it to be equal and fair, and relatively cheap.
I think a raffle for people past say 10 to 20 hours a month, or something like that is the way to go. If you reach that, you get ONE ticket. That one ticket is put into the raffle container. This is best because instead of dozens of monthly prizes (and paying for shipping for those monthly prizes) there is only ONE prize given out per month, and at random.
And to make sure they reach the hours, we have a thread that is created monthly, and the people who want to be entered go to the thread and post their stats page when they reach the designated hours. This way it keeps it down to people who are interested, and helps people join the forums.
"I think a raffle for people past say 10 to 20 hours a month, or something like that is the way to go. If you reach that, you get ONE ticket. That one ticket is put into the raffle container. This is best because instead of dozens of monthly prizes (and paying for shipping for those monthly prizes) there is only ONE prize given out per month, and at random."
As far as what the prizes could be I guess that would be determined by how much the clan can afford to give. It would be nice if we got more contributions, but that subject has already been brought up. As far as the hours to track , I would believe that the stats program could be used to monitor the time played and like you mentioned, you would have to enter your name into the forum thread to enter the monthly drawing. Sounds good... lets see what everyone else thinks.
Could we really get this working? Do we have the extra people to watch this?
If so it sounds like a great idea, I think Hostile would live a OWS gaming thong!
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