DCSD10:> "The mercenary system found in Diablo 2 is very interesting, and something akin to that might
          be viable in the ForumWarz universe.  Imagine, if you would, a version of this game whereby
          ambuming a certain amount of cred and flezz enabled one to launch their own server and/or
          forum, to which aspiring internet superstars (in the form of randomized NPCs) might flock.  
          In this dystopian future, such NPCs might be hired to supplement the PCs abilities in a 
          variety of ways:
            1) by attacking forums concurrently, as moderated by NPC level/equipment/etc.
            2) by occasionally supplementing .moar file and/or flezz income through various
               nefarious activities.
            3) by providing buffs and/or healing during combat, with moderation similar 
               to 1)
            4) by allowing access to some of the skillsets of other PC clbumes, should the
               PC complete certain tasks that enable them to recruit NPCs of other clbumes.
            5) by treating this hypothetical forum as a 'home base' or 'headquarters', and
               allowing for improvements to be applied to it, said forum could pbumively
               bolster a character's statistics or skills.
          I believe that with some tailoring and discussion, this idea could serve as both a
          sink for flezz and BP.  These currencies could be used in hiring, training, outfitting,
          and otherwise improving your NPC following in strength (mostly through flezz
          expenditure) and number (mostly throught BP expenditure)."

THAT’S SOME AWESOME ****. I APPROVE.

Edit: Game discussion oh shi-

A few BP to start or maintain onwership of a forum, a certain flezz amount per week or day to keep the forum up. Maybe an E Peen reward, a leaderboard, a new flavor of scoops or some way to tie it into domination. Use the existing forum buildr forums, no need to make them all brand new. Pay flezz to insert moar files, set difficulties (tied to cred) and maybe even (finally) find a way to tie the XSS and FBO files into the forum buildr forums.

Sounds like a good way to keep the hits coming, sink some flezz, and maybe even earn a few bucks for CZ.

Lets be honest here, I am all for free and cheap, but CZ has to earn a living, and something like this would mean a lot of work. This game kicks bum, and eventually CZ is going to have to pay lawyers as well as programmers to keep the site running. Of course, this is coming from someone who doesnt play the game on daddy’s connection using his credit card, so your milage may vary.

Sapper Posted:

Use the existing forum buildr forums, no need to make them all brand new.

DCSD10:> "My processing suggests that it might be entertaining to use, instead, a set of clbum
          specific forums with content generated through special sessions of Forumbuildr.  We could
          use a new word type to insert the forum owner's name as appropriate.  My processing suggests
          further that such a deployment might allow for more interesting possibilities, like some sort
          of player-versus-player competitiveness whereby, for those that opt to participate, various
          users' own forums could be targeted."

Dead Celebrity Seance Droid Mk-10 Posted:

DCSD10:> "My processing suggests that it might be entertaining to use, instead, a set of clbum
          specific forums with content generated through special sessions of Forumbuildr.  We could
          use a new word type to insert the forum owner's name as appropriate.  My processing suggests
          further that such a deployment might allow for more interesting possibilities, like some sort
          of player-versus-player competitiveness whereby, for those that opt to participate, various
          users' own forums could be targeted."

I know what you said. I was just “tossing the salad”, offering up different ideas of how to implement your excellent suggestion.

And the whole BP giving donaters an advantage is not even a consideration here. Non donaters could benfit from the increased content, some of it generated by players. If you dont want the E peen then dont buy a forum. If some aspect of this is implemented into Domination, then yes, that would give donaters and advantage. But the same thing applies to clan members and those with lots of alts, so I dont see how the advantage would be that large or unblalancing.

Sapper Posted:

so I dont see how the advantage would be that large or unblalancing.

Because having several characters to help your character out in a forum would give mbumive advantages on speedruns?

Something like this might also be cool to have with klans, and having everyone pitch in crazy amounts of flezz to build a klan “website” or “forum”. If you were really hardcore awesome Log in to see images! you could try being in a klan of one and building the whole thing by yourself. They could buff everyone in the klan (maybe lessen the effect depending on how big the klan is?) and maybe there would be different buffs depending on what you decide to buy, and even maybe silly stuff for flamebate or whatever.

anyway there is my terrible idea that will never be put in the game Log in to see images!

It definitely needs to either cost flezz or bp and be a “Cheat” and not both. Like the basic idea, also like the suggestion of letting people customize and grief via BP the forums. If it costs flezz I would hope that we do something about the big piles of flezz people have ambumed before implementing it so that we don’t give people too big of an advantage for being around when the economy was out of whack. After cleaning up economy it would probably be a good ongoing flezz sink to give it an upkeep cost.

Edit: and actually it seems like it would be a waste of a lot content to make it a cheat so I would say just scrap making it cost BP to get one.