New Year's Ideas

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So now it's 2014 and we have a full year ahead of us (belated Happy New Year to everybody)! Death was thinking and he's got some thoughts to share!

Lately we've had more activity than usual, which is really great. But I think we can step it up another notch. How can we do this, you ask? It's simple. Reward players for being online for a certain amount of time. Currently we've got the payday system, which is per hour. How about extending a similar system to every month? If someone spends a certain amount of time online in a month, for example, 50 hours spent online in a month, and you get a reward (enchanted book? coins? something else?). There could also be a "most valuable player of the month" style award for the top most active players in each month (maybe top 3?), who would get a slightly larger award (monetary or otherwise) at the end of the month (and maybe a title for the next month that says "MVP" or something?). To ensure that one person doesn't keep getting the award over and over again, a rule could be made where you can only get MVP once every three months or so. Maybe every six months there could be a larger reward of some sort for the most active players (top three?), and at the end of the year, another , larger reward could happen.

Furthermore, to give incentive for players to join towns and commit to playing in towns, I believe that there should be events where towns compete against each other. Maybe a build-event every two or three months, or a treasure hunt, or most of a certain item collected could work to build competition between towns without resorting to another (potentially disastrous) towny war. Winning towns could get a certain amount of coins added to their town banks, and members of the towns could get monetary (or other) benefits (maybe in the form of a small sum of coins added to their in-game wallets, or by not having to pay upkeep for a certain amount of time, or cheaper plots, or something else). At the end of the year, or every now and then, towns who want to participate could choose a team to do a PvP event in an arena, or compete in other events (jiop's horse-racing was a good idea that would work here, or maybe another Olympics games?).

This was just some ideas I had, what do you think? Would this be possible? Would people be interested in this?