What should be Bearbones' main focus?

[Verdigris]

[quote author=salem link=topic=16585.msg392324#msg392324 date=1524358199]
tbh, the idea of a tnw ship is v.. offputting. i don't want to spend bones on stuff like "oh your character gets a.. big gun" when i could be spending it on stuff like art on site and stuff. it also has always been kind of restricting- and there's never been a problem with super OP characters in tnw. i feel if a ship it added, people might but stuff just to buy hem and the characters will end up, you know, overpowered.
i mean, if it's for abnormalities like.. 6th sense or a literal third eye, then yeah, if it adds more creativity and unrealistic things, but not if it's gonna be kept realistic, if you know what i mean?

on the note of what you can spend your bones on, i do just want to point out that trading bones for art when there's nothing you can do with these bones is kind of... just not going to happen? nobody really wants to trade for a currency that they can't use for anything, so if wnr wasn't shop based, or big enough to really care about buying things in the shop with, and nothing tnw goes into the shop, then there's not much point in keeping bones... at all?
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  seconding this, while I do agree that loosening some of the restrictions on WNR shop-wise might be nice, discontinuing the shop entirely would majorly devalue bones
  artists who accepted bones as payment could possibly buy others’ art with bones, but that’d only get so far

[crows]

that’s what we’re trying to figure out, if we can’t come up with something feasible it’d be likely there’d be no shop for tnw and bones would be used more for ooc currency, art/advertising/something else among those lines

[dannychan]

[justify]At the same time, if we decide to get rid of bones, what about the people with art shops? Sure, there’s PayPal, but that’s an 18+ site and if you’re under 18, your account will eventually be removed.

I don’t like the idea of a TNW shop, tbh. We’ve had TNW for a while now, and suddenly adding a shop is just... very sudden? And TNW has been doing just fine without one, and honestly I think it’s benefitting from the lack of a shop right now. Plus, there isn’t much we can add to a TNW shop in the first place. Keeping track of bullets will be very hard for both staff and members, guns can be scavenged, we’ve allowed people to use solar panels so why make them pay for it, etc..[/justify]

ninjad but his

[Sheogorath]

Bones for art? Why would someone sell art for bones if they can't use those bones for anything? Maybe to buy header advertisements? Idk tbh.

edit: ninja'd a ton

[dannychan]

Bones for art? Why would someone sell art for bones if they can't use those bones for anything? Maybe to buy header advertisements? Idk tbh.

edit: ninja'd a ton

bc what's the point of using paypal when most of the members on site are under 18?

edit: bones could be used in shop to buy things offsite like DA points that can be sent to their DA account?? immmmm not sure?

[Sheogorath]

[quote author=Sheogorath link=topic=16585.msg392344#msg392344 date=1524358791]
Bones for art? Why would someone sell art for bones if they can't use those bones for anything? Maybe to buy header advertisements? Idk tbh.

edit: ninja'd a ton

bc what's the point of using paypal when most of the members on site are under 18?
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Okay but bones are worthless without something to spend them on. If I were to sell my art, why would I want bones if I can't do anything with them? What I'm trying to say is, without a shop or something to spend them on, bones are worthless. :-P We need something to spend these bones on, it doesn't have to be a TNW shop, it can be header advertisements or something...maybe?

edit: idk how that would work, bones for DA points I honestly dont know, sounds cool though.

[Asyli]

we could transfer the usage of bones or something? like crows said, make it more of an ooc thing where you can buy like small badges or buy to advertise things and (i think at one point) someone said to buy to change the color of your username or something like that. all i know is that a tnw shop would be basically pointless because now you have to decide what a luxury is and what it is not and that freedom that people have gotten used to could be infringed on and it's just... a blegh thing, you know? especially when the community itself is doing such an amazing job at monitoring the realism.

another solution: get rid of bones

[dannychan]

hmmmmm
maybe implement a pet game of sorts?? and you can use bones to buy them?? like the little clickables and they grow a lil if someone clicks them??

[dannychan]

[justify]I’d say yeah, find other ways to make bones more usable. Header advertisements, badges, colored usernames, and maybe even for main game events. So, if I wanted to form something like GOC, I would pay 10k bones for it or something.

A pet game would take a LOT of effort to implement. Coding, artwork, money, etc etc.. Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible, just. challenging to make? [/justify]

maybe pay to get your own board but it costs a bunch of bones?? i'd pay for that.

ye i can see how the pet came would be difficult oof

[Sheogorath]

[justify]I’d say yeah, find other ways to make bones more usable. Header advertisements, badges, colored usernames, and maybe even for main game events. So, if I wanted to form something like GOC, I would pay 10k bones for it or something.
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sounds good to me, if that's what staff decides on.