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- Shadowsniper Viper Viperstrike
Hi All,
Some of you probably remember me as hosting the 2013 Newcomer Initiative whereby I gave out to newcomers starter packs valued at 25 PED each to get them started out in enjoying the game before their first deposit.
It came to a sad end due to RL financial problems.
Those problems are now resolved and I come back to game refreshed and renewed, even though I have had a small health issue in the time I have been away to do with my heart. No bother though, it just leaves me with less energy than normal these days.
That being said, I was thinking of starting a newcomer initiative for 2014 and wanted to get some ideas on it.
Now I don't have a world of finance at my disposal and I do want to enjoy the game as well, not just be a person just handing out all my funds to newcomers to get them started and me left having little fun at the end of the day.
Also due to a small heart condition, I have less energy than I did before, so I am not wanting to make this work intensive on my part.
Now it is impossible to help out all newcomers, but I will do my part.
Here are my thoughts:
I will deposit 600usd/month, use 200usd/month on chipping in some skills, play with 400usd/month on gaming.
For every global I get, I will donate 10% of it to a pool.
Every 3 months, I will pay out the pool in the form of newcomer starter kits valued at 25 ped to newcomers.
I will mainly hunt regen mobs, so it is quite easy to obtain those size globals after my last few days experience playing the game. Mainly ambu, trox, molisks, feffoids, etc etc as I progress, the mobs will get bigger (Mission mobs)
I am thinking of starting these periods:
January-March, Payout in April
April-June, Payout in July
July-September, Payout in October
October-Decemeber, Payout in Jan 2015
So in a nutshell, I will payout the month after the end of each quarter.
Entropia Life Tracker shall be used to track my progress each hunt.
I expect to raise enough each quarter to supply upto 100 newcomer starter kits, though even 50 is a good start.
Thoughts and feelings ?
Strash came up with some good ideas earlier in PM, I will do my best to incorporate some of these ideas.
One of the ones that struck me was asking people to pass on the gesture, by helping out 1 newcomer down the track. I may come up with a grand prize each 3 months for those who have reported helping out another with a starter kit down the track after their own starter kit prior.
Cheers,
Viper
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