I am not the boss in my studio. I am a producer. I have been strongly recruited and kindly declined along with two others in my studio....from the same source, i might add. We lost one to that studio. The two others...one was a producer and the other is about to be promoted. I can see people wanting to be at the top and i do too.....but, i am not willing to get there by jumping ship. I have invested funds, both notes and diamonds. not to mention the relationships i have managed to develop. I am highly loyal and see more worth in working with my studio to achieve those goals together. bigger "bang" that way for me!
Loyalty is noble, but for the jumpers, do you believe these incentives (mentioned above) would be enough to make them think twice about jumping?
New Thought
In football there is a spread.... is it possible to implement one with dueling studios? I know that it gets incredibly difficult for upper tier studios to find another studio to battle unless the top five developed a rotating schedule?
I'm lost here. I understand the spread in football... so when the underdog team covers but still loses, what is the payout for the losing team. Besides the fact that every team wants to win every duel, it's not like anyone is making wagers on the outcome.
- The weekly MVP, how do you see that being defined?
- the person to achieve the most personal goals within Studio Member Successes (proposed in initial posting)
- Recruiting a new member? That would have to work based on making invites, and might get intrusive, but it's not that bad of an idea until it gets annoying for the player receiving the multiple invites. The invitee would need to have an opt-out feature to invites.
- Could ask new member if they were recruited? by whom? easy
- Could create poll when accepting an invite or joining a studio....more challenging, but could create an opportunity for feedback based on poll questions. EX. Where you invited to join? if yes, [select person based on drop down list of studio members] if no, what made you join this studio [drop down of potential answers plus others option with space available to explain]
- Diamond vouchers - how do you see this working?
- There is an option on the page to buy diamonds. lower right hand side. I don't necessarily want to purchase a minimum of 250, but it could work.
1. So the MVP is an aggregate of:
- Shooting star (fastest levels acheived)
- Sugar Momma/Poppa (biggest donation)
- Couch Testing (recruiting a new member)
- etc....
I could see that. For some reason, I was thinking it might have been based on some other criteria.
2. Recruitment Star - Asking players who recruited you could work now outside of any development. Was the secondary way (using a poll) something that would be coded into the game?
Sidenote: I could still see this getting out of hand, with people recruiting players from established studios to the point of irritation. Not that THAT doesn't happen already - but this recognition would only help to further encourage it.
3. Diamond vouchers, may not be available on every game server, but if they are, this is entirely do-able now. Maybe Playata could introduce smaller cost diamond packs for such give-aways. ..
-TB
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