Idea: To introduce a referral system to meep.
Why: To encourage players to invite their friends and share the word of meep.
Positive consequences for the server: A higher player count due to enticement.
How will it work? I have a variety of different systems that we can incorporate. These are shown below.
Code Generation
1. A player who has been registered on meep for at least months does the /referral command.
2. They will be given a "code" that expires in 24 hours. They can only share 2 codes a week.
3. The new player will receive this code prior to joining meep.
4. The New player will do /referral claim .
5. After being registered for a week, the new player and the referee(old player) will be given 7k. After a month both will receive 15k. And if it so happens that the new player is really active, after a year of activity both parties will receive 50k.
Names
1. Player A(the referee) does /ref add . This IGN will be the name of the new person who they invited to join.
note: Player A will be able to do /ref add once a week. The /ref add will expire after 48hours.
2. Player B(The new meeper) will get a message once he/she/it joins the server. The message will read "You have been referred, do /accept to claim your reward).
3. Once Player B does /accept, both Player A and Player B will receive a 2k prize. Player A will not be able to refer anyone else for a week.
4. If Player B accumulates (Certain amount of game time), both players will receive a reward.
I.e. 10 hours of total gameplay=10k , 48 hours of total gameplay= 20k. The prize will be kept at a maximum of 20k.
How do we prevent abuse?
I have devised a variety of ways to avoid people abusing this system.
•1. You can add a new person, that invite will last 48hours. If they do not join meep within 48hours, you may invite someone else once the 48hour period has elapsed. If someone /accepts your /referral, you cannot refer a new player for a week.
•2. Disallow an individual to /refer someone with the same I.P.
•3. Introduce a cap on the maximum a person can earn per referral. I.e. 25k if the new player accumulates a total of ( x hours or such).
•4. You will earn a small amount from the original /accept of a referral. You will need to wait a week to do it again. This will prevent spam. To make this system appealing, if the other player is active on meep, you will receive greater rewards(i.e. a max reward of 25k if the player plays a total of 40hours for example).
•5. We could prevent people from referring anyone else for a year if 20 people did /accept their reference request for example?
•6. Current players on meep cannot refer each other. You can only refer a player that hasn't registered on meep for 3years or ever.
•7. The "total number of hours" system does not include time spent AFK.
These are just some ideas, but I think a referral system would be beneficial to meep. It would be like voting but would benefit server numbers further.
Lets try the "Names" Example
1. CasualNuker has convinced a friend to play meep. He does /ref add Bobius77 to reference his friend.
2. When Bobius77 joins MeepCraft, he will receive a message telling him that CasualNuker referenced him. If he does /accept, both him and casualnuker will receive 1-4k.
When this occurs, CasualNuker cannot refer another person for 7days.
3. Bobius77 plays meepcraft a lot. He plays a total of 40 hours. This is a big milestone. CasualNuker and Bobius77 both receive 30-50k after this milestone.
How can we check this system? Commands?
/reference List
Shows a list of your references. This will show your current reference and any previous references.
/reference add
This will add a reference. This IGN must not be registered with meep(or may not have been on meep for X number of years). If this IGN does not join or does not do /accept, there will be no reward.
/refaccept or /accept
Accepts a reference.
/Reference History
Shows a history of referrals.
List of placeholder commands(not sure what to do with these ideas):
/reference cancel
/reference history
If you have any further ideas, leave them below. Again, this is a rough draft.
