YES! I LOVE THIS!
Okay. I've done some digging, and it seems like most successful servers give out minor rewards or purely cosmetic rewards in exchange for the donation. This is to keep players from becoming overpowered, or economies from being wrecked.
That being said, I found some cool ideas online that I think are interesting.
Minor Reward:
- Being able to rename items (excluding name tags) on anvils without an enchantment cost.
- Offer a monthly or a monetary goal reward. (Not sure what it should be yet, and the longer the donator may have a say in the reward. I don't know.)
- Donator Hall: THE HALL OF DONATORS! Could either be a spot for donators to chill or just a spot where the server recognizes the donators.
- If our server ever gets to the point where it is full, you could grant donators priority access. Not sure how this would work out.
- Donator Milestones: Once the server reaches a specific amount of donations, everyone could receive $1000. Obviously this can be reworked, but the idea gets across. And it doesn't just benefit the Donators, it benefits everyone.
Cosmetic Rewards:
- Login Effects: When a player logs in, a harmless(but impressive) lightning bolt will strike their location. This can also be done with fireworks!
- Trails and Particle Effects: A player can toggle particle trails that follow them (for example, bubbles or flames).
- Hat plugins that allow players to put items on their head as a decoration. (I think we already have this implemented but I'm not sure).
- Pets that follow players around (on top of the normal tamable animals like parrots or llamas).
- Unique chat colors, tags, or rank names. Can you put icons in the name? Something to look at maybe.
- Unique Player join Message
Another suggestion to accommodate players who can't donate is to make a trade off system. Basically, they can trade something they got in game for Donator Perks. Obviously you don't want the cost to be something that can be farmed, or at least farmed easy. Such as XP. A possible choice, if we ever implement a hours system, is after 100 hours, you can get a day of perks. Or something like that.
