Credits Revamp Idea

This is going to be a fairly large article, but I feel like some form of implementation of this could be GIGANTIC in helping Letsbeef.com move forward as a website.

I took a lot of influence from MMATycoon for this. I’ll explain a bit about the site’s system because it will help people to get the magnitude that this can help. It’s a website where the player assumes the role of an MMA Manager. You train for stats, buy clothing to keep moral up, travel to fight locations etc. All of this costs money. You make money from fighting. Once a player has enough money, they can open a gym, clothing store, nutrition store, their own fighting organization etc. This all costs money, but in turn can generate money. Players also pay other players to right previews and reviews of their shows etc. and the site itself has a monthly magazine where every submission gets paid, and ones that make it get double. The site also has a VIP section which almost everyone has adopted. You get your VIP features, but it costs real money. Certain members on the site exchange in-game money for VIP memberships, which only boosts the in-game currency more.
In addition, there is also the “Wheel of Fortune” style game. Each player earns tokens for posting a certain amount on the forums, voting for the website on various top 10 websites and other stuff. You gain in-game prizes, mostly money, for your spins.
Basically, the whole thing puts the game in the player’s hands. The admin doesn’t really need to get too involved in this as the system works itself. Every player puts in their own amount of work into the site to get their own experience out of it, and every player receives boosts for everything they put in.

Now, onto Letsbeef. We already have a potential currency system in place; credits. I know there are behind the scenes talks of making users vote on a certain amount of battles before you can battle. This would render credits useless.
We could essentially use credits for absolutely everything. You receive credits for winning battles, it costs credits to do battles, you receive credits for voting, you receive credits for the amount of posts you have on the forums, we could have a monthly magazine where you receive credits for submitting articles. Then, we could make things like making crews cost credits. Owning a custom avatar costs credits. Usertitles cost credits. Custom sigs cost credits. Participating in the GC costs credits etc. etc.

The entire site could be run on credits. This wouldn’t be that hard to implement, the coding would be fairly minimal and a lot of it could be mod run for the time being. The main work would go into deciding how much things cost, and how much you get for other things.

A HUGE revamp in exclusive would be needed also. The main appeal would be making everything geared towards the member wanting to obtain an exclusive membership to gain access to the main parts of the site. There are so many things we could do with exclusive. The biggest downside to me is tracks. We WANT track makers on LB, why are we forcing them to pay?

LB needs a change. Today I was looking around after Danger reminded us that Lil Flip had a battle scheduled on here, where the winner of a tournament got to battle him and got 2000dollars. The winner also would have got 500dollars and a beat produced from award winning producer Rocwilder. This news was covered on several websites, who billed Letsbeef as “the breeding ground of the future of hip hop”. Can we honestly say LB right now has that kind of momentum? I feel like a big change like this, utilizing tools we already have to the fullest, could be what it takes.

Thoughts?

This is going to be a fairly large article, but I feel like some form of implementation of this could be GIGANTIC in helping Letsbeef.com move forward as a website.

I took a lot of influence from MMATycoon for this. I’ll explain a bit about the site’s system because it will help people to get the magnitude that this can help. It’s a website where the player assumes the role of an MMA Manager. You train for stats, buy clothing to keep moral up, travel to fight locations etc. All of this costs money. You make money from fighting. Once a player has enough money, they can open a gym, clothing store, nutrition store, their own fighting organization etc. This all costs money, but in turn can generate money. Players also pay other players to right previews and reviews of their shows etc. and the site itself has a monthly magazine where every submission gets paid, and ones that make it get double. The site also has a VIP section which almost everyone has adopted. You get your VIP features, but it costs real money. Certain members on the site exchange in-game money for VIP memberships, which only boosts the in-game currency more.
In addition, there is also the “Wheel of Fortune” style game. Each player earns tokens for posting a certain amount on the forums, voting for the website on various top 10 websites and other stuff. You gain in-game prizes, mostly money, for your spins.
Basically, the whole thing puts the game in the player’s hands. The admin doesn’t really need to get too involved in this as the system works itself. Every player puts in their own amount of work into the site to get their own experience out of it, and every player receives boosts for everything they put in.

Now, onto Letsbeef. We already have a potential currency system in place; credits. I know there are behind the scenes talks of making users vote on a certain amount of battles before you can battle. This would render credits useless.
We could essentially use credits for absolutely everything. You receive credits for winning battles, it costs credits to do battles, you receive credits for voting, you receive credits for the amount of posts you have on the forums, we could have a monthly magazine where you receive credits for submitting articles. Then, we could make things like making crews cost credits. Owning a custom avatar costs credits. Usertitles cost credits. Custom sigs cost credits. Participating in the GC costs credits etc. etc.

The entire site could be run on credits. This wouldn’t be that hard to implement, the coding would be fairly minimal and a lot of it could be mod run for the time being. The main work would go into deciding how much things cost, and how much you get for other things.

A HUGE revamp in exclusive would be needed also. The main appeal would be making everything geared towards the member wanting to obtain an exclusive membership to gain access to the main parts of the site. There are so many things we could do with exclusive. The biggest downside to me is tracks. We WANT track makers on LB, why are we forcing them to pay?

LB needs a change. Today I was looking around after Danger reminded us that Lil Flip had a battle scheduled on here, where the winner of a tournament got to battle him and got 2000dollars. The winner also would have got 500dollars and a beat produced from award winning producer Rocwilder. This news was covered on several websites, who billed Letsbeef as “the breeding ground of the future of hip hop”. Can we honestly say LB right now has that kind of momentum? I feel like a big change like this, utilizing tools we already have to the fullest, could be what it takes.

Thoughts?

I like the idea. Especially the forums posts one. We need to figure out a way to get people on site, and to stay on site, though. I think the credit system will be a great improvement to the overall growth of the site, I think our big problem atm is getting dudes to stay, become more involved with the forums, and actually BECOME a part of this site.

I like the idea. Especially the forums posts one. We need to figure out a way to get people on site, and to stay on site, though. I think the credit system will be a great improvement to the overall growth of the site, I think our big problem atm is getting dudes to stay, become more involved with the forums, and actually BECOME a part of this site.

[Godbody]

No, Dave. Remember - the admins know exactly what they're doing because they have so much experience running a successful (LOL) site

And according to the admins a mobile app is the way to go. This site generates absolute shit for traffic & the people in charge are either dumb or overlooking the fact that a lot of people visit the site through a mobile device... but those people aren't anonymous/new users. Most of those people visiting the site through their mobile are most likely members of the site trying to read the forum or hit up the chatbox

but according to Pugz mobile is the way to go after continuously brushing off the people & listening to us.. & not listening to a community is exactly how it falls apart

but what do I know, I've only made a very solid 5 figures in a year from online marketing

and by 5 figures i mean more money than Letsbeef has generated in the last 4-5 years

solid idea though. i had an idea like this a while back except it'd work with record labels

like someone could make a 'label' on Letsbeef. get X amount of money, use X amount of money to 'sign' people & that money also buys items, clothing, forum features, profile features etc etc

[Godbody]

No, Dave. Remember - the admins know exactly what they're doing because they have so much experience running a successful (LOL) site

And according to the admins a mobile app is the way to go. This site generates absolute shit for traffic & the people in charge are either dumb or overlooking the fact that a lot of people visit the site through a mobile device... but those people aren't anonymous/new users. Most of those people visiting the site through their mobile are most likely members of the site trying to read the forum or hit up the chatbox

but according to Pugz mobile is the way to go after continuously brushing off the people & listening to us.. & not listening to a community is exactly how it falls apart

but what do I know, I've only made a very solid 5 figures in a year from online marketing

and by 5 figures i mean more money than Letsbeef has generated in the last 4-5 years

solid idea though. i had an idea like this a while back except it'd work with record labels

like someone could make a 'label' on Letsbeef. get X amount of money, use X amount of money to 'sign' people & that money also buys items, clothing, forum features, profile features etc etc

[OSKAR]

Originally Posted by Godbody

No, Dave. Remember - the admins know exactly what they're doing because they have so much experience running a successful (LOL) site

And according to the admins a mobile app is the way to go. This site generates absolute shit for traffic & the people in charge are either dumb or overlooking the fact that a lot of people visit the site through a mobile device... but those people aren't anonymous/new users. Most of those people visiting the site through their mobile are most likely members of the site trying to read the forum or hit up the chatbox

but according to Pugz mobile is the way to go after continuously brushing off the people & listening to us.. & not listening to a community is exactly how it falls apart

but what do I know, I've only made a very solid 5 figures in a year from online marketing

and by 5 figures i mean more money than Letsbeef has generated in the last 4-5 years

solid idea though. i had an idea like this a while back except it'd work with record labels

like someone could make a 'label' on Letsbeef. get X amount of money, use X amount of money to 'sign' people & that money also buys items, clothing, forum features, profile features etc etc

I actually dig that. Replace labels with crews or have them being the same thing. It'll definately decrease the number of members in crews and will allow new ones to emerge hence making the crew section pop

[OSKAR]

Originally Posted by Godbody

No, Dave. Remember - the admins know exactly what they're doing because they have so much experience running a successful (LOL) site

And according to the admins a mobile app is the way to go. This site generates absolute shit for traffic & the people in charge are either dumb or overlooking the fact that a lot of people visit the site through a mobile device... but those people aren't anonymous/new users. Most of those people visiting the site through their mobile are most likely members of the site trying to read the forum or hit up the chatbox

but according to Pugz mobile is the way to go after continuously brushing off the people & listening to us.. & not listening to a community is exactly how it falls apart

but what do I know, I've only made a very solid 5 figures in a year from online marketing

and by 5 figures i mean more money than Letsbeef has generated in the last 4-5 years

solid idea though. i had an idea like this a while back except it'd work with record labels

like someone could make a 'label' on Letsbeef. get X amount of money, use X amount of money to 'sign' people & that money also buys items, clothing, forum features, profile features etc etc

I actually dig that. Replace labels with crews or have them being the same thing. It'll definately decrease the number of members in crews and will allow new ones to emerge hence making the crew section pop

[OSKAR]

But to answer your suggestions Dave we are talking/working towards having the credit system work as an LB Currency. Credit will have nothing to do with battling and in order to battle you'd be directly linked to a random battle to vote on before you are able to submit your verse.

That's the way we are planning on going. I spoke to Pugz about hip-hop being on an all time high and battle rap gaining more and more fans. I suggested we capitalize on that as more and more ppl are willing to rap and LB is the best,easiest, most user friendly online battling platform created. Also it's very easy to get someone hooked on LB and we all know it's true.

He feels the same way. I think change will happen, hopefully...it better happen soon

[OSKAR]

But to answer your suggestions Dave we are talking/working towards having the credit system work as an LB Currency. Credit will have nothing to do with battling and in order to battle you'd be directly linked to a random battle to vote on before you are able to submit your verse.

That's the way we are planning on going. I spoke to Pugz about hip-hop being on an all time high and battle rap gaining more and more fans. I suggested we capitalize on that as more and more ppl are willing to rap and LB is the best,easiest, most user friendly online battling platform created. Also it's very easy to get someone hooked on LB and we all know it's true.

He feels the same way. I think change will happen, hopefully...it better happen soon

Originally Posted by OSKAR

But to answer your suggestions Dave we are talking/working towards having the credit system work as an LB Currency. Credit will have nothing to do with battling and in order to battle you'd be directly linked to a random battle to vote on before you are able to submit your verse.

That's the way we are planning on going. I spoke to Pugz about hip-hop being on an all time high and battle rap gaining more and more fans. I suggested we capitalize on that as more and more ppl are willing to rap and LB is the best,easiest, most user friendly online battling platform created. Also it's very easy to get someone hooked on LB and we all know it's true.

He feels the same way. I think change will happen, hopefully...it better happen soon

I like this idea. It just needs to be implemented which is often the bit that falls down. In terms of capitalizing on live battling there definitely needs to be some kind of sponsorship, association or at least free clothing with some of these live battle leagues.

Originally Posted by OSKAR

But to answer your suggestions Dave we are talking/working towards having the credit system work as an LB Currency. Credit will have nothing to do with battling and in order to battle you'd be directly linked to a random battle to vote on before you are able to submit your verse.

That's the way we are planning on going. I spoke to Pugz about hip-hop being on an all time high and battle rap gaining more and more fans. I suggested we capitalize on that as more and more ppl are willing to rap and LB is the best,easiest, most user friendly online battling platform created. Also it's very easy to get someone hooked on LB and we all know it's true.

He feels the same way. I think change will happen, hopefully...it better happen soon

I like this idea. It just needs to be implemented which is often the bit that falls down. In terms of capitalizing on live battling there definitely needs to be some kind of sponsorship, association or at least free clothing with some of these live battle leagues.

[AfterThought]

The last couple days there's been some dope ideas, I think this is very much needed, it motivates people to get more credits = more battles = more activity.

[AfterThought]

The last couple days there's been some dope ideas, I think this is very much needed, it motivates people to get more credits = more battles = more activity.

[OSKAR]

If we go the LB Currency way, then credits and battles will not be related at all.

Instead the way I see it is scratching the Exclusive membership and replacing it with Credits. Credits working as VC works in 2K...let's say you wanna buy MC items or create your own Label as Pulse suggested then you'd have to select and buy a bundle of credits say you have 20,50,100 & 200 (being the most expensive). We are thinking of new features that can work with credits. That'll generate the site some income which in return can be invested towards bettering the site.

[OSKAR]

If we go the LB Currency way, then credits and battles will not be related at all.

Instead the way I see it is scratching the Exclusive membership and replacing it with Credits. Credits working as VC works in 2K...let's say you wanna buy MC items or create your own Label as Pulse suggested then you'd have to select and buy a bundle of credits say you have 20,50,100 & 200 (being the most expensive). We are thinking of new features that can work with credits. That'll generate the site some income which in return can be invested towards bettering the site.

[OSKAR]

Good shit tho eth I'm diggin all the things you mentioned

[OSKAR]

Good shit tho eth I'm diggin all the things you mentioned

[FiNAL WoRD]

i actually think eths idea is better then the idea there implementing .. and i told pugz he should do the original.. lol

[FiNAL WoRD]

i actually think eths idea is better then the idea there implementing .. and i told pugz he should do the original.. lol