Oh, that's a good point I haven't thought about!

Well, maybe the items would need to be completely new items alltogether after all. But maybe I could offer the same items in dfferent colors in different months, so I would need to come up with so many completely new items each month?

Well, Firn already mentioned them being completely new items instead of past items recoloured - so combined with the idea of offering the same item in different colours in different months that might work out?
Although I would maybe not make it consecutive months - switch the items up a bit but have them return in another colour in a later month. Just so that somebody who doesn't like an item (or just wouldn't use that particular kind of item a lot, say somebody never uses wings or tails for example) doesn't have to wait multiple months until seeing something of interest to them again.

I'm a bit worried that having the colours go all wild might detract from the distinctiveness of the gift items, but then again, if they were really unique items instead of old set items, that might not actually be a problem. So new items would kinda solve this worry and the miniset issue (which I think was very good to point out, Fire!) at the same time.
Not sure how feasible creating new items is though?

Also, one more concern with the switching colours - the perceived values of the items in the different tiers might not actually match the tiers if the lower tier colour happens to be more popular for this item. Do you think this would be a problem? Should maybe the 20 FC tier stick to gold and just the lower tier(s) change colours? But then it wouldn't work with the returning items in different colours in later months again... Sorry, maybe I'm overthinking this.

I'm not sure if having the same gotq several months in a row would have the intended effekt of getting people to donate more ... they may be different colors, but I still think the novelty would wear off and by the fourth month people would be like "eh, I already have this in a few variations I like, I don't neccesarily need to spend real money on another "

Not to mention if an item is not someone's taste, they'll have little extra incentive to donate for several months in a row, instead of just one month.

Chrizine's point about the value of the tiers becoming mixed up because people's taste in colors is different is also a good one.

And personally, I wouldn't want to loose the monthly golden gotq as it is now in the first place :<


The way I understood Firn's last post was keeping the "normal" golden gotq as is, but creating new items for the lower tiers, and recoloring those, which I think is a good idea?

It could imagine those to be small sets. Like a tiara, necklace, bracelet set, or pet sets like seperate butterflies on hand, shoulder and the upper right corner. So for example in may it's the butterflies in magenta, in june the jewelry set, july idk... wing set, august brings back the butterflies in blue, september the jewelry in a new recolor ... something like that :)

THough those would require quite a few new items giving out a single item in three recolors for the 5, 10, 15 tiers and a couple months later in three different recolors would surely work as well!

Firn, how about conducting a survey, like back then with the food surveys, for people's favorite colors and color combos? That might help with determining the tiers, or what colors to use in the first place

Yeah, I thought about a color survey once, but I think it is impossible to get any results that are helpful, just because we have so many colors and so many color combinations. We currently have 75 colors. That's how many possible combinations? Over 2000 I think? There is no point in having a survey with so many options on a user base scale as we have, as we would not get clear and therefore useful results. (And the survey needs to be coded and starkad is freaking out and getting mad at me for every single think I ask him for... )
As for the colors, I get a pretty good idea about which colors are popular just from looking at what items in what color are bought the most often in shops. As for combinations that's a bit more tricky.

I still think, as I said, just doing different colors will be best.

you could use survey monkey to make the survey! I have used that in the past for my school assignments

Carrot Cake wrote:you could use survey monkey to make the survey! I have used that in the past for my school assignments

But the free option only lets you chose 10 answers, so pretty useless for a color survey that would need over 2000 possible anwers. Even if we just asked about favorite colors and not color combinations, that would still be 75.
(And, as said, I believe a survey of that scale would be pointless - If you have over 2000 possible answers, you need a lot more people to participate in the survey, or you don't get useful data. Only around 500 users took part in our last survey)

about the ideas..
we have this poll option here right now,
could be get a summary of the "ways" maybe?
Its hard finding in all those,which idea is what x_x
so not sure what to vote for..
and getting for "all are bad" just because i dont have a clear idea of what is meant is a bit bad.. i wasnt able to determine those ideas ,even yb reading the whole thread in row '-'
i just got more confused and i am not really fond of anything to be honest..
But giving your voice is hard if you're not sure about what is meant actually^^

So would it be possible to get a post with all ideas collected, for that we can vote in this thread?

Bon, the options in the poll are just the ones outlined in the first post So Option 1 is a cumulative gift, Option 2 is the multi-tier gifts, Option 3 is bonus FC, and Option 4 is sales.