CRA's Services & Commission Room [Community Update]

Hey what’s up everyone? As you would have seen by the title of this post, we have got quite a lot of changes coming to the community for this time of year and it just so happens that we were doing this right when the new “prop feature” came into play for our Android .

If for whatever reason you’re using an IOS device and have yet to receive the update for amino don’t panic, one will come eventually but in the meantime if you see any weird notifications which have an error in display they’re more than likely going to be people giving you free amino coins which can be used to purchase an amino+ subscription.

Anyways, to make life easier for all of us we will now have a look at the contents of this update blog so you know what to expect here. In this huge community update blog we will see the following:

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• The Original Concept & Inspirations

• Amino Props + Possibilities

• Services and Commissions

• How It All Works

• Community Improvements

• Closing statements

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The Original Concept & Inspirations

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Okay so originally an idea was brought up by Mystic a long while back when people were still getting used to the concept of our Fame Point (FP) system where people would effectively pay one another FPs for various services. At the time things were still being sorted out so we could not act on the suggestion then and there but now that a lot of time has ed since then and things have settled down we were then reminded by s Vid and Nader about the same concept when they both proposed the same idea to me in dms. Seeing how smoothly things were running I figured it’d be right for us to try to work on this sort of thing now and originally we intended to accommodate FPs only but as it happens the latest Amino update brought us the new feature of “props/donations” which really caused a bit of a change of plans.

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Amino Props + Possibilities

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So with the implementation of “props” and “donations” s can now freely donate either a fixed sum of 2, 5 or 10 coins to a person who’s posted something which they are fond of/liked/appreciated in general or if they wish they could make a custom donation of anything between 1 and 100 coins at a time. This by itself was a welcome change to how amino works and allows us all another way to earn amino coins for our own amino+ subscriptions whilst encouraging the people we all know and love to keep working hard on whatever content they contribute to us here in CRA but this is where we decided to rethink things a little bit and try to seize the moment to make our original update even bigger and better than it was intended to be.

With this new props feature we have decided that in addition to FPs being exchangeable in return for services (ie things which people would appreciate from others such as edits of any kind to things such as training sessions in game) we would also accommodate the transfer of amino coins from one to another because it only seemed right to do so. If you’re confused as to how this all works don’t worry, all will be explained as you read onwards.

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Services & Commissions

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Like I mentioned before there are certain things which people often find themselves feeling grateful for when others have helped them out in some way such as many might have seen recently, the unintentional “trend” I would have started where  numerous people were given profile pictures for free that were made by myself. I won’t exactly be doing anything like that again soon (for free) but from this example you’d see that the people who got these pfps would have been really happy about it and might have thought to thank me for the favor and this is where the whole idea starts to come together. We, the Mod team and possibly select of the Vigilance team, will be creating a chat room in which we allow s to have official trades with one another in exchange for both FPs and also amino coins, whichever the person in question is more willing to spend. The reason why we would have this chat room set up and make it so formal is so that we can effectively:

1) Monitor the transactions of FPs and amino coins closely to make sure all goes well and no one is betrayed in any way for not keeping their end of the bargain

2) To give our s another reason why they should earn FPs by playing in our events/quests and also another means of actually putting their saved FP to good use.

Now you might be thinking that all of this sounds fine and well right but there’s small catch to this but bare with me here, it will be clearly explained so that you know our intentions.

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How It All Works

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So in order for our s to conduct these transactions we will be doing the following:

1) Setting up of this chat room in which deals/exchanges can be made

2) Creating an Official CRA within our amino which can act as a third party body to which taxed coins will go towards.

Wait what? Taxed coins??

I can imagine you all would be raising an eyebrow after reading that but to put it simply, this will be made so that after each official transaction between one another some small amount of coins are taken away from the who receives the payment. This effectively acts as a “payment” for the services rendered by Mod and Vigilance helping out in the chat room where we make sure payments are received and that services are given. It’s really a fair way for you to be guaranteed a smooth/successful transaction without any unnecessary drama stirring up as a result of failed negotiations.  This payment however is not necessarily going to go to those running and operating in the chats but actually the funds will be redistributed back to YOU! Yes, you heard me right, the coins which are taxed will be redistributed in the community via our Quests system and possibly through certain special events. This essentially allows us to not only  further “buff” the Quest payouts but also to give more reason for people to actually commit to posting more actively in general as it creates a new means of them earning amino coins which if you’re like me and you don’t have offers/ads available because of your region or if you’re just unable to find the time to stay online and have the ads layered on your chats etc  be left to display and earn you some coins as time es then you’re really going to appreciate this sort of thing coming into play.

The tax rates for transactions will be cost each roughly 5 coins per transaction so as to keep things simple and not complicate things too much. Also within our chat room we will have people who can as legit service providers who can be turned to for acquiring a aid in anything being offered. This registration will cost 10 coins as well but also yields you a title to display your partnership with us and only our official partners can operate/sell their services in our chat until others . To you will need to be capable of providing specific service(s) to others which will all be listed in our chat description so that looking for help with something can browse to see what services are offered. Additionally, the current services being done for s by our official service providers will be written into the chat description until the service has been done.

NOTE :

We will not be accommodating trophy pushing as a service for it breaks not only the and agreements of Supercell but also that of Amino. s are not encouraged to do such things as it can lead to trouble which would have you being punished appropriately.

Payments must be given up front to ensure our providers are not running the chance of giving their services to then be scammed. Should a customer hold out on payment they may stand a chance of receiving a strike if payment was not given by the time the service is rendered. Likewise should the provider hold out on their services when they have already received payment then they may be dealt with in a similar manner.

Additionally anyone found guilty of holding out on their end of any official transaction may be held able to their actions so they may receive a warning and be given a chance to do what they were supposed to originally or a possible strike or ban. Again, we intend to make sure everyone gets what they’re owed during these transactions so everyone may be satisfied with the process completely.

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Community Improvements

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This should all effectively encourage s to actually work and save up FPs so that they won’t have to always pay only in amino coins for every deal they have with someone. In addition to all of this s may also purchase FP from us using their amino coins which would go towards the community funds and doubles over in helping us establish a clear relationship between FP and amino coins so neither one ever feels pointless. FP may be purchased with amino coins in the Fame Points chat from shopkeepers at a 1:2 ratio where 1 amino coin is worth 2 FPs but realistically speaking we will not spell FP in just any custom request as it would affect how our records work. To make things simple we will sell FPs in multiples of 10 so the cheapest purchase of FP one can make is an exchange of 5 coins for 10 FP.

All coins earned during sales will go towards our community funds and FP cannot be retailed/sold back to the store for coins as it would complicate things unnecessarily.

Note:

When coins are to be collected for any reason (purchases of FP, taxes or donations) by the amino please leave a comment on the post it has made introducing itself before giving your coins. Comments should follow this format to make things easy to keep record of and also to keep things simple:

Name – Divesh98

Transaction Type – Tax Payment

Coins – 5

Basically you will list one of the three transaction types and the amount of coins given. These would be:

Tax Payment

FP Purchases

Donation

Additionally the reason why we may insist on a name being present in the comment despite your current name being clearly shown is so that we can see who you might have been known as more commonly before if we added you to our records under a different name, example :

Moon donating coins after having changed names from others in the past such as Frisk Dreemurr and Ruby which are nothing alike as compared to Minoota who has used other names which share the root nickname “Noot” in them such as “Escanoot” before. I hope you all get the idea, it’s just so we can make sure no mistakes are made when entering information. Donations can be done at any time but where taxes and FP purchases are concerned please try to make sure a Shopkeeper has acknowledged your requests in the chat.

Now we will have coins flowing into our “community wallet” by taxing the transactions done within our chats but in addition to this of our community who wish to help us out in some way or another can in fact lend a hand in some way by donating coins (as mentioned before) to the official CRA . This would basically give us a huge hand in making sure we have coins to distribute to the first place winners of certain quests (we aren’t guaranteeing every quest will reward you with coins just yet) while really costing you nothing in the long run if it was just coins you’ve earned via ads and offers unless you’re someone who just felt like purchasing coins to donate which we would also appreciate but not necessarily recommend doing.

Just a small reminder, all of these transactions will be accommodated in this chat room. The old FP chat has been updated to accommodate it. We ask that you not chat casually in the chat as it is not meant to be a casual chat room. Failure to respect this may result in s being kicked for breaking this or any other rules in the chat.

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Thanks For Reading!

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Thank you all for taking the time to read this huge community update to the end (or skim since some of you might have done that)! I hope that after reading all of this and thinking about it that you see just how much the management here in CRA do wish to make things better for all. With that being said that really wraps it up for this post so I hope you all have a nice day!