So after being here for a month (joined on 02-05-2014), I thought I'd share my opinions on this site.
Overall, this is a wonderful website. With a for the most part a great community, I felt very welcomed when I first joined. Over the time, I've created my own group, won the lottery twice in a row (900,000 koins and 250,000 koins), and upgraded all the way to power.
Now because I've won the lottery twice, I feel it is appropriate to voice my opinions on koins. Koins are not as valuable as I first thought. Though you can upgrade users with them, there is really not much else you can do. Hardly anyone accepts koins to make purchases, and all in all, I believe there are simply too many koins in circulation. The ability to purchase koins with real money is cool and all, but I feel every time koins are purchased, their value only lowers. I've heard @Philly state that he would stop selling them a few times, more recently with the @Aleyoso incident. The user purchased somewhere around 2,000,000 koins ($2,000), which drastically lowered their value. Unfortunately, I feel it is too late for koins (unless everyone decided to start accepting koins, or if the exchange rate of koins went up).
Now, this community is great. Although there are a few users here and there who scam / ban evade etc, I feel the forum team does an amazing job at dealing with those users. The forum team includes @"Cann!bal", @"Gr33d", @"Poe", @"м¢ℓσνιη" @"Justice", and obviously @"Philly". These users may get hated on when a user gets banned that the community liked, but they do an extremely good job, and it is disappointing to see @Jason leave staff because of the hate.
Upgrades on this site are excellent. Especially so because you can purchase them with koins, as well as give them to other users. However the upgrade page needs to be updated as some of the features listed are no longer available. All in all, I believe that upgrading to either Onyx / Power / Power+ is definitely worth it.
Although groups / koins are simply pixels on a screen, they are a nice touch. I purchased my group "tribe", with koins from @"Shade", although I feel that no other users will get this lucky. Groups add lots of diversity to this website, and make it much more aesthetically pleasing. (as well as awards)
So to sum up this thread, this forum is fantastic. Though some things could be improved, this is a great place to hang out!
-Mojo
Overall, this is a wonderful website. With a for the most part a great community, I felt very welcomed when I first joined. Over the time, I've created my own group, won the lottery twice in a row (900,000 koins and 250,000 koins), and upgraded all the way to power.
Now because I've won the lottery twice, I feel it is appropriate to voice my opinions on koins. Koins are not as valuable as I first thought. Though you can upgrade users with them, there is really not much else you can do. Hardly anyone accepts koins to make purchases, and all in all, I believe there are simply too many koins in circulation. The ability to purchase koins with real money is cool and all, but I feel every time koins are purchased, their value only lowers. I've heard @Philly state that he would stop selling them a few times, more recently with the @Aleyoso incident. The user purchased somewhere around 2,000,000 koins ($2,000), which drastically lowered their value. Unfortunately, I feel it is too late for koins (unless everyone decided to start accepting koins, or if the exchange rate of koins went up).
Now, this community is great. Although there are a few users here and there who scam / ban evade etc, I feel the forum team does an amazing job at dealing with those users. The forum team includes @"Cann!bal", @"Gr33d", @"Poe", @"м¢ℓσνιη" @"Justice", and obviously @"Philly". These users may get hated on when a user gets banned that the community liked, but they do an extremely good job, and it is disappointing to see @Jason leave staff because of the hate.
Upgrades on this site are excellent. Especially so because you can purchase them with koins, as well as give them to other users. However the upgrade page needs to be updated as some of the features listed are no longer available. All in all, I believe that upgrading to either Onyx / Power / Power+ is definitely worth it.
Although groups / koins are simply pixels on a screen, they are a nice touch. I purchased my group "tribe", with koins from @"Shade", although I feel that no other users will get this lucky. Groups add lots of diversity to this website, and make it much more aesthetically pleasing. (as well as awards)
So to sum up this thread, this forum is fantastic. Though some things could be improved, this is a great place to hang out!
-Mojo