David Joker Potanus
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- Jan 24, 2022
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Greetings everyone. Lately I have had some ideas in my head and I decided to post it here for community feedback and get some help working it out properly.
Long story short, I have recently started my journey to try and prevent colon cancer. I wanted to figure out a way to help bring awareness and community to others who could be impacted and I also hope to find a way to incorporate Entropia Universe. It occurs to me that since we play a RCE based game there could be some way for our game play time to help benefit those that may be suffering and their families. What if every creature we killed or mining probe we dropped could do something good?
I have thought these things so far but I want some community feedback. Let's figure out how to do this right!
1.
I want to pick a cancer charity organization and start doing benefits for it using the Entropia Universe platform. So far the one I have in my mind is "St Jude Children's Research Hospital" (https://www.stjude.org/about-st-jude.html) but I am open to suggestions and I was hoping we could choose one as a community. Here are my thoughts on why I chose St Jude: They help children and their families impacted by cancer and other life threatening diseases. Children are said to be given treatment at St Jude and their parents and family are never given a bill. It sounds like children get the help they need to save their lives.
St Jude has a page on their website with a streaming toolkit (https://playlive.experience.stjude.org/) with overlays and other useful things that streamers can use to get involved. They are also partnered with Tiltify (https://tiltify.com/) which is used to create online fundraising for charities. I had thought it would be interesting to create a campaign on Tiltify and start generating funds using Entropia. We could decide on a name and start raising funds as a community.
2.
I thought it could be possible to find a way to work with Planet Partners or LA owners for our fundraising. An LA owner could set their tax on their land to 1% and let us all go ham on their mobs for a while. Donate the ped raised for the duration of the event to the community campaign. This would give players an ability to go out hunting or mining for a good cause and also it could benefit the LA owners too by bringing in players to sample their land and see what they have going on. Since LA can pay out daily when they reach a 50 ped or more income I think it would be easy to keep charity and normal LA ped income separate. Sadly, I no longer own Khorum Coast or I would gladly help donate my land to the fund raising.
3.
We have several past and current players who are affected by cancer. Some of those players use this game as a means to escape real life for a bit of fun and get their mind off things. What if we all got together once a month and made sure these players had a sense of community and fun? With enough people participating we could really hunt some large creatures for very little cost per player. I am thinking large scale Opalo/Bukins hunts since this would be relatively cheap for almost anyone to join in. This monthly night event is when we go to visit one of the LA who has decided to assist with the fund raising. Lots of players show up and we can all have a night of really cheap hunting with the peds generated going towards our fundraising efforts.
I am trying to come up with ways of getting the peds out of the game and donated to the charities. I am thinking we would have to choose one or two people who would be honest and provide screenshots/video proof of every transaction out of the game and then the money being sent properly to where it is supposed to go. I would like to find ways to avoid any funny business and it would be nice to partner with Mindark or a Planet Partner directly in this manner if possible.
Long story short, I have recently started my journey to try and prevent colon cancer. I wanted to figure out a way to help bring awareness and community to others who could be impacted and I also hope to find a way to incorporate Entropia Universe. It occurs to me that since we play a RCE based game there could be some way for our game play time to help benefit those that may be suffering and their families. What if every creature we killed or mining probe we dropped could do something good?
I have thought these things so far but I want some community feedback. Let's figure out how to do this right!
1.
I want to pick a cancer charity organization and start doing benefits for it using the Entropia Universe platform. So far the one I have in my mind is "St Jude Children's Research Hospital" (https://www.stjude.org/about-st-jude.html) but I am open to suggestions and I was hoping we could choose one as a community. Here are my thoughts on why I chose St Jude: They help children and their families impacted by cancer and other life threatening diseases. Children are said to be given treatment at St Jude and their parents and family are never given a bill. It sounds like children get the help they need to save their lives.
St Jude has a page on their website with a streaming toolkit (https://playlive.experience.stjude.org/) with overlays and other useful things that streamers can use to get involved. They are also partnered with Tiltify (https://tiltify.com/) which is used to create online fundraising for charities. I had thought it would be interesting to create a campaign on Tiltify and start generating funds using Entropia. We could decide on a name and start raising funds as a community.
2.
I thought it could be possible to find a way to work with Planet Partners or LA owners for our fundraising. An LA owner could set their tax on their land to 1% and let us all go ham on their mobs for a while. Donate the ped raised for the duration of the event to the community campaign. This would give players an ability to go out hunting or mining for a good cause and also it could benefit the LA owners too by bringing in players to sample their land and see what they have going on. Since LA can pay out daily when they reach a 50 ped or more income I think it would be easy to keep charity and normal LA ped income separate. Sadly, I no longer own Khorum Coast or I would gladly help donate my land to the fund raising.
3.
We have several past and current players who are affected by cancer. Some of those players use this game as a means to escape real life for a bit of fun and get their mind off things. What if we all got together once a month and made sure these players had a sense of community and fun? With enough people participating we could really hunt some large creatures for very little cost per player. I am thinking large scale Opalo/Bukins hunts since this would be relatively cheap for almost anyone to join in. This monthly night event is when we go to visit one of the LA who has decided to assist with the fund raising. Lots of players show up and we can all have a night of really cheap hunting with the peds generated going towards our fundraising efforts.
I am trying to come up with ways of getting the peds out of the game and donated to the charities. I am thinking we would have to choose one or two people who would be honest and provide screenshots/video proof of every transaction out of the game and then the money being sent properly to where it is supposed to go. I would like to find ways to avoid any funny business and it would be nice to partner with Mindark or a Planet Partner directly in this manner if possible.