Blue text = edited in after discussion
The idea
The idea is to have a Featured Player up on the home page, there are quite a few benefits for this (I will discuss below) and it can work just like the Featured Guild profiles that appear up there already.
Basically, if a player wanted their profile/bio featured up on the main page they would have to pay a price (gold/FSP amount) per day, and that price would get them listed for 24hrs. The system would then rotate through them, just like the Featured Guilds do now.
Players can only pay/enter once per 24 hours, therefore removing the option of someone "buying out" the featured player box.
It will display the users profile image and bio (plus a link into their actual profile) just like the Featured Guild feature does now.
Due to some profiles being too large to display the whole thing (and clogging up the home page more than it needs to be) it would only display the first 200 or so characters of the players profile, therefore meaning the player would need to (if they had a larger profile) rework their bio to make the first 200 character interesting to readers and get them to click to read the full bio.
Benefits for players
- You can gain exposure for yourself or your guild by having information up in your bio about what you do/offer, or what your guild does/offers.
- If you are a buffer you can advertise your wares another way and have them listed on the main home page so people don't have to go view your profile to see your wares.
- If you're an artist that designs avatars for profiles/guilds then you can advertise here (and even have an example of your work in your own profile image) with your prices and any other information needed.
- If you sell bio space to people, this could be a drawing card for you to get more business (this could be viewed as a good or bad thing I guess)
Benefits for HCS
- Another gold/FSP sink in the game to regulate the monies more.
Things to think about
- Where to place it on the home page. The page is already very full, so I'm not too sure about where to put it. That is something I thought could be discussed here.
added in quote from a few posts down discussion position on the home page...
Maybe have it in the same position as the Featured Guild, but rotate between them both. So have the Featured Players, added into the Featured Guilds rotation. Only problem with this is you would have to regulate it to show the same number of FG's as FP's so that the guilds paying for their exposure did not get taken over by players paying for their own exposure
- The cost? Featured Guild is currently set at 10FSP per day (or 1RP), so would 10FSP be reasonable for this? Discuss...
*I've had a search for this or anything like it but could not find it, sorry if I have missed it...

