I've spoken to a lot of old members and SHLer's over the past week or so due to recruiting purposes and two things have consistently been brought up when it came to the negatives of the VHL. One was the board activity and the other being that all you could do for gaining TPE was writing. Oddly enough, that's pretty much what you do on their too, however, I think we could maybe up the weekly cap slightly and see if we could find some other alternatives that would allow members to gain TPE while also benefiting the site in other ways.
1. Up the Cap slightly and swap the tpe/salary around slightly to open up a weekly training.
Weekly, we'll be allowed to do a minimal training. In a section potentially for training, we can do something similar to the SHL and our team training camps where our members will post weekly. Suggestion:
$50,000 gets you 1 TPE
$100,000 gets you 2 TPE
2. Some other sort of "Team Task" for TPE
Unsure on what it could, graphics or written, but can each team member anywhere from 3-5 tpe per season? Could be held at the end of the season, during or whenever?
3. Donation options:
Higher options to strictly buy TPE. I get we have lots of money, but this could also open the door to bigger and better for advertising spending. On facebook, it can get pricey but if we could reach out on Facebook to millions and specific areas (all hockey related in North America, Europe etc) it could really be huge for us.
Maybe $1 per TPE or $2 for 1 TPE?
4. TPE award for weekly activity/Activity Check?
I get it's fairly simple for people to post, but for an additional 1 tpe a week, we could have an activity check. Makes it easier for members to gain tpe but also keeps the gap between bad - good and great players.
5. Recruiting - special rewards that we need to come up with.
Recruiting is huge and to see new members join the site is an amazing thing. SHL is crazy busy and while I enjoy how close knit the VHL is, I'd love for us to add another 20 or so consistent members. We all enjoy this site, so why not take some small time out of our day to see and make it thrive? Dunno on rewards though.
6. Buying Equipment once per season? (another store purchase?)
Self explanatory
Players:
Gloves, Skates, Stick, Shoulder Pads
Each costing $100,000?
Gloves - +2 Puck Handling or 1/1
Skates - +2 Skating or Defense or 1/1
Stick - +2 Scoring or Passing or 1/1
Should pads - +2 Strength, or Checking or 1/1
Goalies:
Pads, Glove/Blocker, skates etc
Each costing 100,000
Glove/Blocker - +2 Reaction Time
Pads - +2 Rebound control or Style Control or 1/1
Skates +2 Skating or Agility ? 1/1
I'm sure there's a lot more. Just some I could think of off the top of my head. Don't give me grief - may just help the VHL as that's what I've heard from lots who have come and gone