Ryanlikesham said:
Give them like 2-3 Free master balls to use or something? Not everyone will want something many of us I am sure just want to see this game be updated and everything. Also Nothing payable or anything like that. Tokens are what are people are paying for. You should be seeing updates like security updates or content updates weekly or monthly. I understand this game isnt as big as other MMORPGs like WOW or Runescape but if you have a income from people playing you should be seeing updates of some short.(This is just my opinion)
Tokens are
donated for, and the only confirmed uses of the donation incomes are to fund for the server upkeep (maintaining the server by paying for the server rent used by monetary donations). Although I would agree that many would love to see more frequent - whether they are back-end (developmental) or front-end (content) updates - there is no assurance that any monetary income will propel progress forward; volunteerism always has been (and most likely always will be) the basis of staff work in the project, therefore payment incentives are not provided to guarantee that the life schedule's of staff members are fixated to contributing to PWO consistently.
Donations are always appreciated for the financial retention of the server, but since they can not be used for the QA of the staff work (IOW: hired staff members to work on the project actively), the uses of such a monetary income are not designed to improve the developmental pace of the game.
Also, I don't believe the lack of active development staff is due to a shortage of programming-savvy applicants expressing interest in joining the development team, but also because there is a high trust standard, in addition to a high technical standard. DEV is a very sensitive position, due to all of the server access they are privileged with, thus even if one possesses the programming skills needed for the job, it is considered more plausibly acceptable for a more well-established community member to be in consideration for joining the DEV team.
Regarding the GE group (those who work on content updates), I do not believe non-monetary incentives (in-game perks, namely) would functionally increase the amount work done in that group as well. Many would earnestly like to contribute in those front-end departments without a lot of compensation; just that due to the standards held for that group as well, there are not as fluid of additions of active staff members to that group either.
However, regardless of that situation, I do believe it is only intended to have two client DEVs -- which there currently are (Hardcoreh and ThuGie, who has also been working alongside Hardcoreh to develop the client to my knowledge). The client development is also, notably, the more pivotal development work for many of the security improvements needed.
