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In an effort to get more players to submit articles to the Times, Mike has agreed to look into improving the rewards for submitting/getting an article selected to the times. His question to you is, what kind of rewards are you guys looking to see? What incentive would make you publish an article weekly? Thanks for your feedback and help in improving the Tycoon Times.

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Mmm so I'm probably not the target audience of this post, I would not consider myself a creative writer.

Checking the rewards just now only today did I learn we can get extra hype. I would consider trying to write even if only to hype my own shit up, but then I've got nothing to really hype. Clothing store was doing laundry for 6 months and still doesn't have an interesting selection after that anyway. All of my fighters are mid and don't really have anything interesting to mention surrounding them. Still waiting to be able to make an island org - that would be a decent muse.

$3000 per article though... there are new fighter contracts out there with sign-ons and base pay that beats that, and all that takes is a click of the mouse. Spins are fun, considering what they can entail.

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5 hours ago, RedSawn said:

Mmm so I'm probably not the target audience of this post, I would not consider myself a creative writer.

Checking the rewards just now only today did I learn we can get extra hype. I would consider trying to write even if only to hype my own shit up, but then I've got nothing to really hype. Clothing store was doing laundry for 6 months and still doesn't have an interesting selection after that anyway. All of my fighters are mid and don't really have anything interesting to mention surrounding them. Still waiting to be able to make an island org - that would be a decent muse.

$3000 per article though... there are new fighter contracts out there with sign-ons and base pay that beats that, and all that takes is a click of the mouse. Spins are fun, considering what they can entail.

Orgs and fighters are the best things to write about, even if your fighter isn’t great just make up a story. There are so many events, drama, fights, etc. that I see in the tycoon world every day and think “that would be such a great article to have in the times” everyone in the game has the potential to submit an article each week.

The real question is though, what rewards WOULD make you want to write for your island org every week? That’s what I’m trying to find out so I can provide feedback to Mike. One thing I had thought of was to have large rewards, even VIP for players who consistently have a column every week. Would this make you want to write articles?

On a side note, does someone who regularly submits articles in the times know if the spin and win credits are actually being handed out? I remember last time the times started up it wasn’t. 

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Yeah, they are @Fireballer34.

I'm already happy with the rewards as of now.
Could be good to get 50 extra orders for submitting classified ads or articles for clothing and nutrition companies, but the hype boost is already good enough imo.


Payment, like @RedSawn suggested, would help on engaging new managers, but would increase zero value for already stablished managers. Hype, custom avatar slot, maybe a early release for free, etc would make me want to write even more.

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13 hours ago, Fireballer34 said:

In an effort to get more players to submit articles to the Times, Mike has agreed to look into improving the rewards for submitting/getting an article selected to the times. His question to you is, what kind of rewards are you guys looking to see? What incentive would make you publish an article weekly? Thanks for your feedback and help in improving the Tycoon Times.

Pop or hype boosts for the fighters / orgs (without influencing rankings) would be the best possible reward. As i understand, we already get a tiny bump anyway. 

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7 hours ago, Fireballer34 said:

Orgs and fighters are the best things to write about, even if your fighter isn’t great just make up a story. There are so many events, drama, fights, etc. that I see in the tycoon world every day and think “that would be such a great article to have in the times” everyone in the game has the potential to submit an article each week.

That's the thing, I don't have that creative spark. I'd need a constant, something somewhat plain that could still be enhanced by an article... like the weekly results/highlights of my (future) org.

I'm agreeing with what the others have said here anyway

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9 hours ago, smkd7 said:

Yeah, they are @Fireballer34.


Could be good to get 50 extra orders for submitting classified ads or articles for clothing and nutrition companies.

I like this suggestion.

My own suggestion would be to leverage the competitive nature of players and create (yet another) leader board for article writers.

Also, there is a manager Trophy for submitting an article, perhaps that could be expanded upon?

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10 hours ago, FlatSky said:

Wait... so my articles keep getting rejected because they're shit not because there are too many other submissions. Dang, so this is how you tell me 😢, @Fireballer34

I include one of your articles virtually every week. I like your event reviews and fighter profiles, so I almost always include those, although you could make them a bit longer. I often don’t include your just fights articles that just talk about the company, because they are more of an ad than interesting. Maybe you could use those as classifieds. Overall, my feedback for you is instead of writing 3 shorter and messier articles, write 1-2 longer, detailed, and cleaner ones and they will certainly be included every time.

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12 hours ago, Skuzbukit said:

I like this suggestion.

My own suggestion would be to leverage the competitive nature of players and create (yet another) leader board for article writers.

Also, there is a manager Trophy for submitting an article, perhaps that could be expanded upon?

Adding orders for classifieds is definitely a good idea. A leaderboard for writers would be cool too, if Mike had the time. As to the manager trophy, are you just saying there could be one for 10, 50, 100 etc. articles included?

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30 minutes ago, Fireballer34 said:

Adding orders for classifieds is definitely a good idea. A leaderboard for writers would be cool too, if Mike had the time. As to the manager trophy, are you just saying there could be one for 10, 50, 100 etc. articles included?

I like that idea, the graduated awards. Spin and win is nice, though it's very hit or miss and 10 credits is one spin so easy to have that come to nothing. Maybe if it was 50 it would feel a little more substantial. Similarly 3k could go to 10k without it making a big difference to veteran managers but would be a nice bonus to newer ones. Just spit-balling here. 

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23 hours ago, Fireballer34 said:

Adding orders for classifieds is definitely a good idea. A leaderboard for writers would be cool too, if Mike had the time. As to the manager trophy, are you just saying there could be one for 10, 50, 100 etc. articles included?

Yeah something along those lines.

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Anything else people want to add before I go to Mike with the feedback? I had an idea that maybe a rewards system based on how many articles you’re had included. 

Something along these lines could work:

1 article: custom avatar

5 articles: 50 spin and win credits

10 articles: 10 170 supplements

25 articles (to put into perspective that’s one every week if we stay with biweekly editions): 3 IQ tests

50 articles: 6 months VIP

100 articles: extra fighter slot+free agent ticket

Would this be good incentive to write?

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Is the 170 supplements better than the previous two rewards (custom Avatar, 50 spins) ?

I don’t believe so personally, I can buy those supplements pretty easily 

I’d much prefer the avatars!

But these incentives would be awesome, and I think would definitely get more people involved 

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40 minutes ago, ToshLodi said:

Is the 170 supplements better than the previous two rewards (custom Avatar, 50 spins) ?

I don’t believe so personally, I can buy those supplements pretty easily 

I’d much prefer the avatars!

But these incentives would be awesome, and I think would definitely get more people involved 

170 supps aren’t available anywhere else.  But yeah, if you guys gave suggestions for what the reward track should be let me know.

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1 hour ago, ToshLodi said:

Is the 170 supplements better than the previous two rewards (custom Avatar, 50 spins) ?

I don’t believe so personally, I can buy those supplements pretty easily 

I’d much prefer the avatars!

But these incentives would be awesome, and I think would definitely get more people involved 

Where do you buy 170 Q?

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On 1/18/2025 at 1:25 PM, RedSawn said:

Quite generous suggestions, actually...

Trap House in LA's claimed to have 170 supplements since 2023 and I don't think I've seen anyone rebuke it

And if you belive that....

 

....I have a bridge to sell you.

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4 hours ago, Fireballer34 said:

Mike loves the ideas from you guys, and I think something will be implemented eventually, although he does have a lot on his plate right now with creation points, game speed increase, new skills etc.

Thanks for contributing to potential improvements. There are often a lot of ideas that kind of get lost in the forums, but it's nice that you are able to gather up and present them in what will hopefully be an effective manner. If this leads to more Tycoon News from more engagement, that's great!

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