Platinum system is coming along well, it's now a fully implemented currency on the Dev server. Just working on getting the OneBip and PayPal stuff working for it. Platinum will definitely be out later today, hopefully so will the store. We're not going to have a fully featured store straight away, we'll build up to that. The most important thing will be to get the Artist side of stuff finished so graphics staff can start adding new stuff.

For now, subscription count down is disabled on main. This means your subscription time will no longer count down every hour. This is just in preparation, you can still buy subscription if you wish. It will be converted to unbound platinum when the system goes live.

Some added information about how this new currency will work. There will be two types of platinum, if you simply wish to spend it on things for yourself and friends in the Platinum store you need not concern yourself with which is which. However, if your desire is to trade it to others it will be important.

Platinum purchased via PayPal or OneBip will come to your account as regular Platinum. This can be traded, given away or sold on the platinum market for credits. However, platinum acquired from other players using credits or as gifts will arrive to you as 'Bound Platinum'. This platinum cannot be traded, given away or sold on the platinum market. It can only be used to purchase from the platinum store for yourself or as gifts for others.

In short, what this means is only players purchasing Platinum for money will be selling it on the market. Nobody will be able to buy out cheap platinum with the intention of selling it at a higher price. This is one of the main complaints we had about the subscription market, hopefully it will remedy this.

It also means when we give away free platinum as prizes we can give it away as 'Bound Platinum' and stop it from inflating prices on the market as people sell it.

Tonight we're going to be moving our subscription model over to a new points system. The points will be called Platinum (thanks for the suggestion Arryn). Each hour of subscription will be turned in to 10 platinum, so a week will become 1680 platinum. All subscription will be automatically moved from the market to accounts, this new currency is static and will not count down over time.

What can you do with this new currency?
We'll be putting a platinum shop online that will sell various temporary and permanent things for your account, mostly made up of the current subscriber features for now. Outfits will also be added as permanent 1 time purchases.

Can I still buy platinum for credits?
Of course, the market will be reset tonight but after that people will be free to trade platinum for anything they like.

Why is this better?
The main reason this system is being implemented is that it allows us to pay graphics designers for their work. Outfit sales through this system will see a percentage cut go to their designer, inspiring new and wondrous things from Dk16 and others.

The change will be a gradual process as we move to the currency, shut systems down and update them. It should all be concluded in the next day or so though.

Just a reminder to collect your Anniversary boxes whilst you can only a short amount of time before we remove the ability to collect them and to gain the banner!

Also we still have the double XP week-end up for grabs, you guys just need to help get our facebook page to 500 "likes". We're updating it daily with news and uploading loads of stuff onto it and will eventually hold contests on there or facebook -only- games

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Also, myself and Zorg are tweaking the voting sites and bashing our heads against the wall in doing so. We're trying to find the best sites to advertise as to not waste money and make sure that what we're paying for is what we receive, If you browse Top Voting Sites and know one that has regular traffic and is for Browser based games then leave the link in a comment below, if we end up liking and using it I'll happily send subtime to the person who suggested it to us