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[David]

Subscription System
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What's the point?
The subscription system is a way for us to encourage donating by offering some benefits back to the community. I hope that this will encourage members who otherwise wouldn't donate anything to contribute just a bit to help out with our costs. Now, to our major donors - this is not something that will replace donations. If you wish to donate an amount larger than what the subscription plans cost, or an amount inbetween pricing tiers, we still accept (and greatly encourage) regular donations through the "Donate" button.

TRR Subscription Page
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What's in it for me?
Listed below our what we currently came up with as benefits. A few of these things haven't been implemented yet, but we're working on it. Please suggest more incentives if you can think of any!

[*]Subscription Benefits

[*] New forum rank and icon (see above).
[*] Access to private and exclusive forums.
[*] "Sergeant" rank in clan chat.
[*] 5 display name changes every 30 days (opposed to 2).
[*] +20% increase in gathering forum points for ibEconomy.
[*] Ability to open, close, and delete own topics; also able to delete own posts.
[*] Ability to store 200 personal messages (opposed to 50) and to include attachments.
[*] Ability to give up to 5 negative reputation points per day (opposed to 1), and 15 positive reputation points (opposed to 10).
[*] Ability to see who gave forum reputation.
[*] Exclusive 'behind the scenes' access to team-specific planning forums.
[*] Automatic voice (+) in our IRC channel.
[*] The satisfaction of helping keep TRR operational by chipping in to help with costs!
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Plan Pricing

Time: Cost [ratio]
1 Month: $3.99 [$3.99 per Month]
3 Months: $10.49 [$3.49 per Month]
6 Months: $17.99 [$2.99 per Month]
1 Year: $29.99 [$2.49 per Month]

Note: Paypal has fees (charged to us, not the buyer) that will take off about $0.42 per month from the original price.

We're still working out the pricing tiers. If you think this is too expensive (or too cheap), post your thoughts! Keep in mind that the idea is to have the prices as efficient as possible without turning people away. The main point of this is to raise money to stay operational; not to sell a forum product with ridiculously low prices.
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[T ranger101]

Very good david. Very good.

[MstrMonopoly]

Side note - if you think there should be any additional benefits to purchasing a subscription, I encourage you to post your ideas in this thread.

[Crazycow73]

Great way to help the clan and get some added benefits out of it as well!

[T ranger101]

Benefit of getting a Pic with EmmaHawtson

[David]

Oh, and there ARE benefits to getting this even if you're an Event Coordinator/Diplomat/Moderator/Council, so don't withhold your philanthropy on that account.

[T ranger101]

I think thats hinting at me haha. Ill be sure to be one of the first xD

[Blakelington]

This is a really good idea. Just saying. Not sure if I'll ever be able to donate under my parents' roof, though

[David]

We're very open to new ideas for benefits, too, if anyone can think of any.

[FunnyPirate]

Realy nice, I like some things in the options of subscription.. only bad I don't have any more money in paypal

[David]

New incentive idea: Exemplary Rebel's get a stock based off of them.

[Kaiden]

That's actually not a half bad idea.

[Crazycow73]

I agree entirely.