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Alright, I'm new here, but I like admin'ing etc., so I want this to take off a bit, I want to populate the servers a bit more, or at least give it a good attempt. Ideas on this list have probably already been said, suggested, by other people, but I'm going to post this thread here so we can get a cohesive list and thread for such thing. I used to moderate for the GrimFortress community before it disbanded, so I thought I'd incorporate some of their ideas here. Yes, this is going to be a lot of typing, but you care this much to come this far, so...Perk Ideas/Donation Suggestions
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1. GF had a plugin that incorporate silly little things for donators, plugins you've probably seen, like options for engineers for hats on your sentries, or options to make yourself have an outline (though both teams could see you so this could backfire), silly things like this. I'd have to contact an old admin to see about tracking these plugins down.
2. Expand donations to in-game items as well. Keys/Unusuals can be traded to an assigned admin for a player to be allotted an approved period of donator perk time. Sometimes, unusual hats were a permanent donator status achiever (no take-backsies!). However, I realize that currently donations are monetary and used to sustain the server. Makes sense. But, not everyone wants to pay money for TF2, at least, not for perks. Allow them to trade items for it. Plenty of people traded keys for perks. These keys could be kept by perhaps a community-ran bot of our choosing, or kept by a TRUSTWORTHY admin (high up), perhaps a lower admin can handle the trades, then hand off the items to said admin, so that higher admin wouldn't be... overwhelmed. Filching items, of course, instant demotion/ban/what have you. These keys/items can be made into currency to sustain the server using marketplace.tf. It's good for trading, many, many players use it, and can link with PayPal, so it can be an additional income for the servers' sustainability.
3. However, the items can also be used for something else that may increase population: raffles. People like free shit. You put your admins in charge of advertising raffles for set event dates, be it keys, and later, if the donations pick up, unusuals. People want things. They'll show up, goof around/play on the server if it'll give them a chance to walk away with something shiny. You change/add a MOTD for a date/event for an upcoming raffle; the reward, server IP (or whichever of our servers it is), and the rest'll play out. I've actually had admins DONATE unusuals for these raffles. If it picked up, I wouldn't be against donating some higher-tier items. Some people would have to be exempt from winning the raffles obviously; we don't want a lot of people to show up only for a community admin to win the burning team captain.
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These are just some ideas from your tryharding Spy main fox furry admin. Add your ideas down below, I want this to take off, and I want these servers more populated. <3 you guys. I'll see about adding/editing the best ones to this if the thread explodes, with credit, so others don't have to scroll through Asia to find the best ideas.
