Slight thought on refilling time

[Jackwolf]

From what I've read one of the larger issues with free and simply verified accounts appears to be that the time added to the account is simply refilled and not added onto what's there. I don't know if this has been covered before, as the above thread about P2P is very long and I've not had the free time to peruse it - but here's my simple thought on it.

Have it so you can 'bank' up to say, double of what's refilled. Nothing terribly amazing, but not so awful either.

Free account refills 7/week - account can hold up to 14 hrs. So if someone has an hour left over they then have 8 hours the next week, or for more casual players who don't play every week they get the benefit of playing for 14 hours.

Verified account refills 14/week - account would be able to hold up to 28 hrs. Same premise as before, greater benefits.

The only people it benefits are more casual players persay, who wouldn't really want to put down for a month's subscription since they wouldn't be able to play ~all the time~ anyways and feel they wouldn't get a good run for their money.

[DaniAngione]

I like the idea of being able to 'bank' twice your week hours for weeks you couldn't play so much, etc...

Last week I had like 1.5 hour left when the time refilled and I felt bad because it felt like 'wasting' the money I paid for the verification. However, feeling bad because of that, I overplayed this week and ran out of time on Friday
So having a little bit of flexbility for weeks you're really busy X weeks you're not so busy, etc, would certainly be nice.

However, I'd go ahead and say that this should be a verified account benefit. No banking of hours for free acounts (or maybe a reduced amount, like... up to 10 hours)
For two reasons:
1. Even though we know it is NOT the same (because we're talking about two weeks against one), being able to bank the same 14 hours that verified accounts get would create a sense of 'low value' to account verification.
2. On the other hand, having this as a verified account benefit would encourage more people to acquire it, supporting Jorb & Loftar to continue their work - which is a positive thing.

So, that's my opinion I like the idea of banking hours!

Alternatively, the ability to bank twice your weekly amount of hours could be a new Store Purchase itself, cheaper than account verification (something like $7) but that would be a boost for free accounts and an even greater benefit for verified accounts!

[Jackwolf]

Honestly I don't think allowing free accounts to bank any time would cheapen verification at all, because verification is still getting double the benefits that any free account would get - which is precisely the benefit of verification.

Admittedly I am a free account right now as is, but I fully intend to get verification sometime soon and wouldn't feel cheapened any less if both types of accounts got the same benefits.

Spoiler: Reason for no verification is that I'm a college student, and if I buy it now my grades will _tank_. >.>

[jorb]

Will consider. Thanks.

[Jackwolf]

My pleasure!

I can't think of anything else to add to this aside from potentially giving verified up to 42 (3 weeks) of potential refill to make verified a great appeal to casual players, but as originally presented seems good as-is in my opinion.