I would like to make a donation
I'd like a day job option, where my toon can give this relief worker a day off and take her place while I'm offline.
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Can we please get something implemented where we can click on her and donate some inf/merits?
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Inf is not money!
Not that I'm against a donation idea
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So the entire auction house is based around how popular you are? Sounds like highschool all over again
Love the donation idea, or even the replacement day job idea.
Can we please get something implemented where we can click on her and donate some inf/merits?
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I realise the battle on this was lost a long long time ago but ...
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Yes I know "Inf is not money" in the strictest sense, but it's quite easy redefine our points of view to make the resource called influence effectively apply to anything you want within the game. This whole argument about whether Inf is a form of currency or not has been mostly just a matter of people not being willing to be flexible with their interpretations.
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Screw inf! I'd like to give her a fruit hamper to say thank you for all the hard work handing out leaflets and standing around for hours.
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Obviously when Laevateinn/Witch-Girl said "can we donate Inf" to the relief worker what she meant was "can I use my public INFLUENCE as a hero of the city to help the relief worker."
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How about if she gave out repeatable missions where you show up at charity events. No XP, but double inf. Content? A couple of talk-to convos (maybe they can go towards your 5 a day morality missions?) then putting on a staged fight for entertainment against some badly costumed AV look-a-likes.
Shouldn't take more than 5 minutes and gives you an inf boost, could be useful for lowbies who need an inf injection for DOs, especially considering how it's going F2P, lots of new players!
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How about if she gave out repeatable missions where you show up at charity events. No XP, but double inf. Content? A couple of talk-to convos (maybe they can go towards your 5 a day morality missions?) then putting on a staged fight for entertainment against some badly costumed AV look-a-likes.
Shouldn't take more than 5 minutes and gives you an inf boost, could be useful for lowbies who need an inf injection for DOs, especially considering how it's going F2P, lots of new players! |
On a similar theme:
How about you talk to the relief worker to sign up for charity work, then the next time you log in with a different character on the same server: the phasing technology is used so that your original character appears as one of the heroes talking to the crowd of citizens?
Totally pointless but you'd get to have tow of your characters side by side
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I realise the battle on this was lost a long long time ago but ...
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The battle on this subject will probably never be over but even NC soft has all but given in on the idea that Influence, Infamy, and now Information are anything more, or less, than the games equivilent of cash. Back when GR was first announced there were posts here from self proclaimed experts that if a villain crossed over and became a rogue or .. heaven forbid!! .. a hero all the infamy they had accumulated would be useless on the blue side. The reasoning was, of course, Infamy was the villains reputation in the Rogue Isles not cash and since the venders in Paragon only awarded heroes who had agained influence through their good deeds.. a villain that leveled or wanted to purchase inspirations, etc.. had to return to the Isles to do so.
OBIOUSLY we now know that isn't the case. A Hero can go vigilante, travel to the Rogue Isles and as soon as he or she steps through the door and out into Cap Au Diable or whichever zone they arrive in... every CENT of their influence has been magically converted to infamy. When a Praetorian reached level 20, now I suppose level 25, and decided to come to Primal earth as soon as they step off the portal their information has been converted to influence or Infamy depending on which side they picked. Sort of like going to the bank before you travel abroad and converting your CASH into the currency of the country you will be visiting.
Even the desciption you get on influence by accessing help on line reads like this....
Influence is the commodity of heroes. The more a hero does in Paragon City, the more “pull” he's got with various people and organizations. Heroes may spend Influence as if it were currency. Influence is tradable and can be lost due to Defeat or Task failure. Influence can be used to purchase Inspirations and Enhancements from Contacts or Stores. |
Now with that flame war started on to the OPs suggestion. I like it.. maybe we could get a badge called Social Worker. My question is if we could donate influence to the relief worker.. aside from a small form of inf sink .. where would it go and how would it be used. Here's an idea..
Depending on the size of the donation the relief worker awards those for their generocity with an inspiration of their choice. Keeping it at the set prices..
a 50 INF donation awards one tier 1 inspiartion of your choice
No idea on the prices for other tiers since they are acquired through drops and the only place to BUY them is at the market but lets say
100 INF gets you a tier 2
250 or 500 earns you a tier 3
prices may vary but that was just to put SOME figure next to each. I'd avoid going higher since the Super Inspirations awarded during Itrials are AWARDED DURING I Trials or purchased only in Ouroborus using merits.. in short they are only available to 50 levels. And the new dual and team inspirations are awarded through gaining levels in the rewards program.
Basically we are making the relief working into a sort of inspiration vender but the inspiration is like the flower or button you get for your donation to a worth cause.
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Back when GR was first announced there were posts here from self proclaimed experts that if a villain crossed over and became a rogue or .. heaven forbid!! .. a hero all the infamy they had accumulated would be useless on the blue side. The reasoning was, of course, Infamy was the villains reputation in the Rogue Isles not cash and since the venders in Paragon only awarded heroes who had agained influence through their good deeds.. a villain that leveled or wanted to purchase inspirations, etc.. had to return to the Isles to do so.
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Personally I was happy with the idea of influence as "influence" right up until they planted a shop in the middle of most zones that buys and sells things and survives on a taking a percentage. I still think it a shame that it wasn't framed as something like Star Labs instead of an actual auction house.
I'd now like to apologise for bring up the tired old subject in an otherwise interesting thread. I promise not to do it again
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Actually...
For the Halloween event, if Trick-or-Treating is still enabled, it'd be nice to have what I'd nickname the UNICEF option. Any door that we might normally get a Treat on, there's a percentage chance that it will also add "inf" to a special "donation" collection. Then as we're going around knocking on doors, we can fundraise.
As long as they're datamining, they can set an amount of "fundraise X, and word spreads across Atlas that additional relief supplies have reached Galaxy thanks to heroic efforts; fundraise Y, and wow, the influx of funds have allowed for additional search-and-rescue teams to work in Galaxy..."
You get the idea.
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How about if she gave out repeatable missions where you show up at charity events. No XP, but double inf. Content? A couple of talk-to convos (maybe they can go towards your 5 a day morality missions?) then putting on a staged fight for entertainment against some badly costumed AV look-a-likes.
Shouldn't take more than 5 minutes and gives you an inf boost, could be useful for lowbies who need an inf injection for DOs, especially considering how it's going F2P, lots of new players! |
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I'm still a little confused. I love the idea od donating to charity but how does giving INF translate into some non profit organization getting actual cash. Now I do frequent other on line sites where it is possible to make an actual cash donation to whatever charity is being collected for by accessing your credit card information of file.
Unless they turn that relief worker into a charity division of the on line store where NC Soft does have access to our credit card info.. handing her 1 billion in influence just means you are now out 1 billion in inf. You really didn't help anyone..
If they can find a way to make that donation actually help people, like the folks in Japan or ,, (older example) the folks in New Orleans after Katrina ,, I'd be happy to donate.
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*cough cough* Wendy, once again, you're reading too much into things and taking things far beyond what the OP intends.
The OP would like to donate to the Rebuilding Galaxy City Foundation, or a similar concept with a different name. This is called an inf sink. It really is that simple.
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*cough cough* Wendy, once again, you're reading too much into things and taking things far beyond what the OP intends.
The OP would like to donate to the Rebuilding Galaxy City Foundation, or a similar concept with a different name. This is called an inf sink. It really is that simple. |
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Otherwise ... handing over INF without getting a thing for it, badge, salvage, ect, just seems slightly silly. If ithey want to create another inf sink and expect players to flock to use it...come up with an idea that makes sense.
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�Those women are prostitutes? You said they were raising money for stem cell research!� � Sheldon
Now if someone actually came up with a way to donate to Real World charities trying to help REAL people that actually NEED help.. I'd gladly open my wallet
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To this relief worker here:
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Can we please get something implemented where we can click on her and donate some inf/merits?