I have decided to write this as a sort of player watermark to have something to look back on a few months or years from now. I hope I can keep you interested enough to read the whole post and comment. I have revolutionized the game as a player by giving input and giving more of myself than what I get back. When I first joined I complained about just about everything you can think of and then some! I apologize to everybody I've ever offended and I'm working on it. This site has been built on community feedback and continues to progress through innovative ideas that have been well thought out and put into action. So here's my personal list of ideas put into action and my contributions as a player. Before I begin I'd like to say that some of these ideas and suggestions will either benefit the game, the player or the business behind pokerrpg. If your a free player, please remember that this site STAYS free thanks to contributions from paying players and although this is a game; it is also a business.


Ideas,Suggestions and Contributions of mine that have been implemented.

Thanksgiving 2008 I decided I needed points for upgrades and came up with a genius idea to have the whole site help me. This idea was main chat raffles and a big thanksgiving raffle where I awarded over 100 items. I won't go into much detail but this brought upon the idea of praffles which later began the donator days idea. (praffles have come a long way since December) During this time lots of staff changes were made with Dreamburst coming into play and I convinced them
to let me part of item creation. We were in a big slump, the desk lamp exclusive sat their for months and we weren't getting any new exclusives for a while either. Although I'm rather a beginner artist and think of myself as a horrible drawer with a pencil; I opened photoshop up. I made the roulette, double sink, gaming console, shower, toilet, sink, and air hockey table. All from scratch and all items I made with suggestions from the community. (Roulette being the 3rd super
exclusive btw) and air hockey the 4th I also edited the slot machine for its pink taint it had on lever and helped Soosan give her treadmill a more 3 dimensional look.

I watch chat even if I'm playing poker, watched it long enough to find some cheaters and that trade duplicating bug that almost collapsed the exclusive market. Reported it and with that we found out that the cheaters were hiding their
chips in register. To prevent this you can no longer do that. I also believe it should be auto withdrawn at a certain amount (100k). Either that or have chip register prone to bad events AND show in your total chip count. Trades were slow before, I suggested search by item or user to increase speed and find what you want easy. The ignore feature I'm not sure if they got it from me but it def keeps me out of trouble! lol One more thing being worked on as I type this is the abuse of storage. Overflowing backpacks and using trades as storage. I know trades were not invented for that purpose. To prevent this I've suggested that your backpack cannot overflow for ANY reason other then someone giving you more items than you can hold. No more putting items in shop then overflow by putting them back in backpack. Then you can make a trade thats bigger than your backpack. Trades should not exceed your backpack size. I believe trades should return items back to your backpack until it fills if a trade is not made within 30 minutes. If a trade is up there for longer than that, your obviously not trading! The remainder of the items will stay in trade until you clear a space in your backpack. I suggested grab bags needed to be upgraded to be more reasonable.

Economy Suggestions

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Collect Rake In CG - the house takes a % (10% is good) after every hand played. A certain % gets eliminated from the game, the rest is put into a royal flush jackpot. A straight flush gives you a 25k chip award. (THESE CAN ONLY BE WON IF PLAYER HAS 2 CARDS IN THE HOLE TO COMPLETE THE HAND.)

Realistic stocks - Stocks change once a day, I say move them every 4 hours. (encourage ppl to upgrade stocks all the way) Make it so every once in a while a company can go bankrupt. (removing chips from game) New companies arise that people can invest in and make big chips in the long run as it develops. (3 months or more) Companies have a max number of shares. (There will be days where you can't find some to buy) If you sell your stocks without having them for at least a month you get taxed double and will have to wait 10 days to collect the chips. I think this would keep ALOT of chips frozen in stocks and taken away from game.

Slots - % of bet taken away for jackpot (not the full amount) rest is discarded from game. Jackpots are awarded daily.(encourage people to play) Bonus game of some sort if you hit a certain combination to win a free item (depending on bet, can also be used for human verification?)

Auctions - 8 items every 4 hours game auctions items. (LOTS of chip removal)

ITEM SNG - SNG where game cashes in 8 of that item and awards top 3 with better items. Awards will be announced in dealer chat once game starts.

Bonus Mission If you complete all of your daily missions, a bonus mission that awards ONLY exp. (nice lump some of exp depending on how many items your currently turning in, remove lots of items)

Multiple table tourny - Every hour varying in price. (game decides) 5% of every buy in is discarded. Needs 8 players to start and an even number of players after time limit. (makes for easy splitting of players) Starts with top 3 awarded and increases 1 for every 5 players who join after initial 8.

Scratch offs - Increase price, jackpots awarded daily. Scratch with possibility to win an item for the expensive scratch offs. Make it so that people are willing to scratch even if their not playing for a big jackpot by awarding bigger
chip amounts. (2x,10x,20x what u paid) Scratch and you win a free ticket. (tons of chips removed)

Morale - Make morale more expensive and related to your luck in games outside of poker. Make morale actually move big amounts! (chip removal and makes people pay a small amount for a little morale that could make them win in slots,
lottery, scratch offs)

Trades - charge 5% of est value on items you post in trades. (service fee )

Pad - charge a very small monthly bill for water and light on your pad! (electronics, and water consuming items)

Bank fees - small fee for withdrawal

Pokerrpg credit card - credit line with weekly billing you dont pay full amount, there's interest on on your next weeks bill. You don't pay up 1 day after statement your credit line is reset and your shop is revoked. To get your shop back you have to pay the bill which will be collecting interest every week. LMAO

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Site Money Making Ideas

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Points Incentive - For every points package you buy you get a random regular item.

Pro Donator only upgrades - If your pad is maxxed on everything but floors. You can move unlimited items into floor at once. Slight higher bank interest. Change color of name on poker tables.

Grab Bags - 2/3 price for donators, 1/2 for pro donators!

Animated Avatar - donators pic can be animated gifs.

Profile - List of praffles on profile for donators.

Praffles - Pro donators praffles get separated from regular donators and stay on top of page.

Furniture Drop - pro donators get 4 extra drops throughtout the day just for them.

Prizes - donators get a random winner for their category sales. pro donators get a slightly bigger one in which is auctioned for chips. Pro donators will get control over whether they win or not. You have more money invested so you have a control over a return on your investment.

Exclusives - donators get exclusives for 95 points. pro donators get them for 90 points.
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Other random suggestions

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Chip Register - Add whats in it to the list of things you can see on top of page. Make amount in chip register count towards total chips and withdraw itself if kept their for over 7 days.

Travel - Be able to move your pad from 1 location to the next.

Instant Message - Send instant messages like chat to users instead of mail.

Quick Stock - Change list to group items like backpack does instead of listing 1 item several times if u have more than one. (this way you can just type in an amount of that item you want to stock.

Shop - List is too spread out, all we need is a picture and a box to input price and item amount under it.

Search Market - (1)Drop down menu with list of items instead of box u have to type. (2) Page shows list of items, you just click the name of item and it searches for you.

Pad - Once item is in pad you can move it to other rooms. Half time.

Career - You turn in (number) of tokens. (depending on if you upgraded or not) and counts as that many of jobs done, you collect interest when the total time is up for that many of jobs and u get a little exp bonus on top of what you
would usually get.

Referral - 10k chips, +1000 exp when your referral reaches level 20 (award people that bring in others that STAY)

Exclusive sales - If item is exclusive you can shop price up to 1 mill

Scouting Report - Separate poker hands CG and SNG, Instead of graph show current rank and last month's rank only.

Online Friends- If you have too many friends online you cant see them all. Increase list size or make it so you can scroll down and see them all.

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Achievement Ideas
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Raffle Wizard - Complete 5 praffles in a day.

Raffle Expert - Win 5 praffles in a day.

Merchant - sell at least 1 of each regular item in the game.

Quick Clicker - Get an item from drop.

Job Finder - Get a job token better than orange from job drop.

Stock Exchange - make a certain amount of profit in stocks.

Mission Massacre - Complete a certain amount of missions in a row.

Experience Expert - Earn a certain amount of experience in 1 day.

Poker Starter - start a poker table.

Poker Fan - play a certain amount of hands in a day.

Poker Addict - play a certain amount of hands in a week.

Poker Insomnia - play a certain amount of hands in a month.

YOU CAN DO THE SAME WITH BLACKJACK.

SNG Hunter - 3 achievement levels of knocking someone out a SNG.

This is my house - Knock the starter of a SNG out.

Mission Preparation - complete a mission without going to market or trading.

Botanist - have 100 plants in your pad.

Energy Inefficient - have 100 electronics in your pad.

Same some for the fish - have 100 items that consume water in your pad.

Stadium Seating - 100 items that you can sit on in your pad. (nobody is going to have 50k seats so 100 is fine)

Stuffed Wildlife Collector - stuffed animal in your pad.

Deforestation - own a certain amount of wood items in your pad.

Musician - own a musical intrument.

Alcoholic - own 10 mini bars.

Calorie Consumer - own more than 1 fridge.

Mod Mayham - Be online when more than 2 moderators or admins are online.

Spot the Owner - Be online when James logs in.

Major Moving - move a certain amount of items into your pad in 1 day.

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last but not least!

Item creator - create an item that makes it into the game. 0 exp

Thanks for reading if you made it this far! Show your support by commenting and keeping this topic hot. If enough of us agree some of these might be implemented.

James if you ever get to read this or get told about it, let me know what your thoughts are.

Not bad.. some pretty good ideas and achievements...

the last achievement is stupid because you will only be able to get it if you know the staff good enough.

Thats a lot to absorb, full of good ideas though!

awsome ideas m8 this all should b new

why to go my freind tell it like you see it

Nice ideas Luny!!!
I hope James takes notice, these would make the site way better!

Looks like ya put alot of effort into this, Shame i cant be botherd to read it all right this sec but i may l8er

I really like some of these ideas, add it to uservoice and get some votes on them, i like the item games i think thats a good idea

nice 1 m8 very well made

I'm liking the travel idea...... i wish i could move my pad, but can't....

I came, I saw, and slept a little half way through ... too much to respond to every suggestion but i like the idea of cleaning up trades and more achievements .. nice work

Nice list, I'll try and add my own comments to everything.

 Collect Rake In CG - the house takes a % (10% is good) after every hand played. A certain % gets eliminated from the game, the rest is put into a royal flush jackpot. A straight flush gives you a 25k chip award. (THESE CAN ONLY BE WON IF PLAYER HAS 2 CARDS IN THE HOLE TO COMPLETE THE HAND.)

10% is way too high. At most a rake should not exceed the small blind. I think about 5% up to the amount of the small blind would be a good amount. A small, flat 5% fee for SnGs might not be bad either (and maybe donators pay less rake? even more incentive for people to become donators).

Realistic stocks - Stocks change once a day, I say move them every 4 hours. (encourage ppl to upgrade stocks all the way) Make it so every once in a while a company can go bankrupt. (removing chips from game) New companies arise that people can invest in and make big chips in the long run as it develops. (3 months or more) Companies have a max number of shares. (There will be days where you can't find some to buy) If you sell your stocks without having them for at least a month you get taxed double and will have to wait 10 days to collect the chips. I think this would keep ALOT of chips frozen in stocks and taken away from game.

I approve of any stock system where it's very possible to lose chips. Right now I'm making pure profit from my stocks and that doesn't seem very fun.

Slots - % of bet taken away for jackpot (not the full amount) rest is discarded from game. Jackpots are awarded daily.(encourage people to play) Bonus game of some sort if you hit a certain combination to win a free item (depending on bet, can also be used for human verification?)

I agree that the slots should discard a small portion of people's bet. I don't see how you can have the jackpot awarded daily without completely reprogramming it though. I think I'd prefer to see more small wins instead of the jackpot rewarded daily though.

Auctions - 8 items every 4 hours game auctions items. (LOTS of chip removal)

This would probably only result in a small amount of chip removal. And the longer it stays, the less effective it will be.

ITEM SNG - SNG where game cashes in 8 of that item and awards top 3 with better items. Awards will be announced in dealer chat once game starts.

This seems overly complex.

Bonus Mission If you complete all of your daily missions, a bonus mission that awards ONLY exp. (nice lump some of exp depending on how many items your currently turning in, remove lots of items)

I like it.

b]Multiple table tourny - Every hour varying in price. (game decides) 5% of every buy in is discarded. Needs 8 players to start and an even number of players after time limit. (makes for easy splitting of players) Starts with top 3 awarded and increases 1 for every 5 players who join after initial 8. 

We'll keep our fingers crossed that James can fix the MTTs.

Scratch offs - Increase price, jackpots awarded daily. Scratch with possibility to win an item for the expensive scratch offs. Make it so that people are willing to scratch even if their not playing for a big jackpot by awarding bigger chip amounts. (2x,10x,20x what u paid) Scratch and you win a free ticket. (tons of chips removed)

I'm not sure if the price should be increased. I like the idea of scratching for another scratch off. I think the prizes need to be increased in general (what's the point of scratching a 400 gold scratch off when the max you MIGHT win is 100?). I'm not sure about winning based on how much the scratch off cost.

Morale - Make morale more expensive and related to your luck in games outside of poker. Make morale actually move big amounts! (chip removal and makes people pay a small amount for a little morale that could make them win in slots, lottery, scratch offs)

I might relate the loss of morale to the percentage of chips lost. Not necessarily the percentage shown in any CG mind you, but maybe of your overall bankroll (chip register/sales/trades probably shouldn't affect this though).

Trades - charge 5% of est value on items you post in trades. (service fee )

Sounds reasonable.

Pad - charge a very small monthly bill for water and light on your pad! (electronics, and water consuming items)

I'm not a big fan of pads, and this would make me less of one. I think you'd also get a lot of complaints from those who stocked up their pads with everything. It would also be complex to figure out how much to charge each item. (Why does my chip set have a utility charge O_o).

Bank fees - small fee for withdrawal

Doesn't really affect me, but it seems like it would just hinder new players.

Pokerrpg credit card - credit line with weekly billing you dont pay full amount, there's interest on on your next weeks bill. You don't pay up 1 day after statement your credit line is reset and your shop is revoked. To get your shop back you have to pay the bill which will be collecting interest every week. LMAO 

Has the possibility for abuse. It'll add more chips and just result in players quitting.

I've gotta run, I'll see if I can add comments to the rest later.

Chip Register - Add whats in it to the list of things you can see on top of page. Make amount in chip register count towards total chips and withdraw itself if kept their for over 7 days.



Quick Stock - Change list to group items like backpack does instead of listing 1 item several times if u have more than one. (this way you can just type in an amount of that item you want to stock.



Pad - Once item is in pad you can move it to other rooms. Half time.

These 3 suggestions really popped out at me..The only modification I would make to these would be the Items in the Pad move should carry a chip charge, like what you would pay to have the moving company to move your items ..

I'll finish my comments. These are all first reactions by the way, so some ideas might be better after more thought.

Site Money Making Ideas


Points Incentive - For every points package you buy you get a random regular item.

Nice perk, but kind of random. The value from the points package seems like it would so far outweigh any regular item that it'd be like getting 10K extra chips though... A nice perk, but not really exciting. Maybe a grab bag instead? Or some kind of special points package grab bag?

Pro Donator only upgrades - If your pad is maxxed on everything but floors. You can move unlimited items into floor at once. Slight higher bank interest. Change color of name on poker tables. 

If bank interest is increased any more, I really want to see some money sinks on PRPG. Inflation is already insane, and I blame bank interest for a lot of it.

Grab Bags - 2/3 price for donators, 1/2 for pro donators!

Go nuts donators :D

Animated Avatar - donators pic can be animated gifs. 

Not a bad idea. I don't know what James didn't originally allow them though, so it's up to him.

Profile - List of praffles on profile for donators.

Praffles - Pro donators praffles get separated from regular donators and stay on top of page.

Furniture Drop - pro donators get  4 extra drops throughtout the day just for them.

These all seem good.

Prizes - donators get a random winner for their category sales. pro donators get a slightly bigger one in which is auctioned for chips. Pro donators will get control over whether they win or not. You have more money invested so you have a control over a return on your investment.

I don't understand. Could you clarify this please?

Exclusives - donators get exclusives for 95 points. pro donators get them for 90 points.

I thought we wanted people to buy more points?

In my opinion, the good:

Other random suggestions


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Travel - Be able to move your pad from 1 location to the next.

Quick Stock - Change list to group items like backpack does instead of listing 1 item several times if u have more than one. (this way you can just type in an amount of that item you want to stock.

Pad - Once item is in pad you can move it to other rooms. Half time. 

Referral - 10k chips, +1000 exp when your referral reaches level 20 (award people that bring in others that STAY)

Exclusive sales - If item is exclusive you can shop price up to 1 mill

Scouting Report - Separate poker hands CG and SNG, Instead of graph show current rank and last month's rank only.

Online Friends- If you have too many friends online you cant see them all. Increase list size or make it so you can scroll down and see them all. 


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And the rest with comments:

Chip Register - Add whats in it to the list of things you can see on top of page. Make amount in chip register count towards total chips and withdraw itself if kept their for over 7 days.

I don't like anything that does some that could affect me automatically.

Instant Message - Send instant messages like chat to users instead of mail. 

It sounds like you want a pop-up (kind of the only advantage over main chat or mail). I hate pop-ups and I think most people would agree with me.

Shop - List is too spread out, all we need is a picture and a box to input price and item amount under it.

I'd suggest the name instead of the picture.

Search Market - (1)Drop down menu with list of items instead of box u have to type. (2) Page shows list of items, you just click the name of item and it searches for you.

This would be large and would only grow larger. Maybe some kind of autofill instead? It would be more work for James, but it'd be just as helpful and it would look a lot nicer.

Career - You turn in (number) of tokens. (depending on if you upgraded or not) and counts as that many of jobs done, you collect interest when the total time is up for that many of jobs and u get a little exp bonus on top of what you would usually get. 

I love this idea. This could go in so many different directions. And it would really bring an RPG feel to the game. James should definitely explore this possibility.


As for the achievements, a lot seem fine. Those are up to James and he can shoot down any that are too complex or any that he doesn't like. They're more up to him really.

You've done a lot of great work luny. This was very well done and it's obvious you took a lot of time to think and write it all up.

Sorry I wrote so much that by the time I got somewhere in the middle I got a little lazy about getting into details about everything.

Prizes - donators get a random winner for their category sales. pro donators get a slightly bigger one in which is auctioned for chips. Pro donators will get control over whether they win or not. You have more money invested so you have a control over a return on your investment.

The way current donator prize is completely random from a group of donators 1 is picked. Now that I think about it, donators should have a raffle of sorts where they buy tickets to win at random. Pro donators should have auction like the rest of the prizes. Since pro donators have more money invested in the game, they should be able to have control over how much they'll pay in chips for a prize. Giving pro donators control over the prize they win as donators will increase the pro donator package purchasing because free players will notice that they can pay less in chips on an auction and still win a reasonable amount. I hope I cleared that for you.

That sounds good. Of course, James will have to weigh the size of the prizes with the expected amount of additional donators having them would bring in. Those are tough numbers to estimate. It might not even be worth it if he improves other donator perks since those alone might bring more donators in with or without the additional prizes.

Thanks for all the effort you put into this. A lot of these are great ideas and you can bet will get implemented. I'm slowly reading through all of the comments left about this, but I'll get through them at some point. Be sure to watch the news as I start to add some of these

I think adding auctioning items would be cool, like eBay for Poker RPG, call it Pbay. ya that would be cool

interesting ideas luny

wow some realy good ideas in here, be good to see most of them in the game :D

also a suggestion: make the bj table unlimited buyin and unlimited max bet or at least raise it to poker amt. its realy annoying

ya i agree with vahe, i need a higher bid then 50K lol