What is the Mabination Cash Shop Initiative?
We'll be rolling in a new type of forum currency, called Coins of Nation (CON for short). These CON will be used as a secondary option to purchase Shop items along with the Gold you already have. In addition, we'll be introducing a whole new list of items that you can purchase exclusively with CON, which Gold will not be able to purchase.
CON can be obtained through online payments, which you can make via credit card, paypal, or bitcoins. For those of you who don't have the luxury of pocket change, we will also provide surveys which will earn you small amounts of CON. These surveys are done through a third party sponsors and we hold no liability for any malware, trojans, viruses, identity theft, or fraud that may be inflicted upon you.
We have created a simple payment option and currency conversion, and you can refer to it here. As you can see, we offer additional CON as a small token of our appreciation when you purchase larger amounts. While we understand that a large number of Nation users are Canadian, we are currently only accepting USD. We suggest you either convert your CAD to USD, or use Bitcoins instead.
- $10 USD = 230 CON
- $25 USD = 577 CON (an extra value of 2 CON)!
- $100 USD = 2309 CON (an extra value of 9 CON)!
- Bitcoin prices are updated every millisecond in real time to protect both the user and forums from malleability.
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You will be able to purchase CON from this newly added link on the main header. Additionally, users who have not purchased any CON for a week will be given an automated reminder through the PM system.
But what can you purchase with CON?
Here is a table of just some of what we have planned for the CON market.
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There are also future plans for creating a level 4 user account that can only be accessed with a monthly payment of CON, while slightly scaling back the features of a level 3 user account. With this, level 3 user accounts will be limited post counts. You will gain one post per 10 minutes, which can be gathered up to a maximum of 6 posts. Additional posts will cost 8 CON, or you can replenish your full 6 posts for 40 CON. Level 2 or below users must integrate their accounts with facebook logins, and every post will be shared publicly as a status update.
We believe that this model will help us keep the community active, engaging, and healthy, all while maintaining a miniscule amount of revenue to aid in paying for server costs and future events.