[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by perju

The thinking behind creating that thread was to somehow preserve the rest of the board. I would rather flood one thread with pointless posts than have it spread to the entire forum.

The problem with taking money away from the members is we're all friends (well, just about).

Yes this is similar to the arcade issues, getting people to post who only want to play the arcades. I tried restrictions on playing until posts had been made, that just got a ton of spam. I then tried a giant flashing red and yellow box as a sort of "nag screen", and all we got was dozens of posts saying "only posting to get rid of the box, don't like forums", which actually felt even worse since they were so blatant.

But on the flip side, with 13,00 arcade games over two arcades, you NEED a lot of arcade players to keep it competitive.

So in the finish we just opened it up pretty much unrestricted and said "as long as you have an account you can play games". Things are more peaceful and the arcades are well used and popular. We try to just *encourage* arcade players to post but if they don't, fine.

That's similar to the idea of having a dedicated thread for casino cash posts, but that will fill up the database with junk.

I have gone with a generous daily login bonus ($100), and I have also adapted that code a bit and created a "weekly wage" which works the same way but adds $250 on a Friday evening to everyone who has logged in in the last seven days. I guess you could easily change that to anyone who has POSTED in the last seven days.

That seems to have pretty much sorted it as there's a steady flow of cash coming in for people to play with. Only thing is that non-players get massive cash totals pretty quickly.