Haliaeetus
Legend
There's a lot of utility a paid account can provide to the f2p community. Specifically, Lagoon's efforts have shown that even just one dedicated paid account who is active in the f2p community can make all the difference in the world; his efforts have brought a lot to the Horde side of the community on AP.
While there are certainly paid ally members who contribute to the f2p community, the ally side could use someone like Lagoon.
Anyway, here's what I'm thinking. I have a lot of free time, but am extremely tight on cash. Now I know you all don't really care about my life story, but this is the situation I'm in... I recently graduated from college with a BA in Criminal Justice with the intention of getting a job in law enforcement... which turned out to be horrible timing, because of the condition of the US economy... basically, when law enforcement agencies are looking to hire and evaluating their applicants, it comes down to choosing that kid who's fresh out of college, whom the agency would have to pay to train; or a myriad of folks who were previously officers but were laid off because of the infamous 'budget cuts' that have been all too common lately; whom the agency would not need to train, but simply hire and put in a squad car. Long story short, I probably won't be getting a job in my career field until the US economy stabilizes a bit... until then it's going to be minimum-wage jobs that barely cover rent and certainly do not merit spending $15 per month on a video game.
I do have a (frozen) Cataclysm-level account, though, and the time to help the AP ally in a similar fashion as Lagoon does for the Horde... the only obstacle is the subscription fee. My question to you all is this: Would you be willing to help me with the cost of a subscription in order to give consistent access to level 85 help to the Alliance of AP?
Unfortunately, I don't have any characters on AP on that account, and I'm not going to ask any of you to pay for me to level a toon to 85, so if there's enough interest in this proposal, I'll pay for the first month to reactivate my account, and use that time to level a character on AP. This will also hopefully be to show you all that I'm legit about this - it won't take the entire month just to level a toon, and after leveling I'll spend the remainder of that period helping the community in any way I can. After the first month, though, I'll be relying on you all to keep the account active... probably the most secure way to do that would be for you to buy a WoW-time-card from any local electronics retialer; and send me the activation code via PM.
Once leveled, my focus will be to provide gear runs, rep runs, summons, group formation, etc to the Alliance on AP. Priority will be given to the one who donates the month in question... so if you buy me a month, you'll pretty much have an 85 for your personal b%#$ch for the duration of that month... so you'll be calling the shots on things like AGM assistance, sporeggar rep farming, etc.
While leveling, and likely for a good amount of time after leveling, I'll farm gold to buy [Vial of the Sands] so that I can truck you around for exploration achievements, or getting FP's and whatnot... on my own f2p toon, I've found the need for someone with a flying passenger mount several times now, so having one would probably be worth the grind.
Anyway, the purpose of this thread is to see if you'd be interested in this... if the interest level isn't high enough, then this isn't going to happen, so don't go running to the store to buy a time card just yet... but if you think forking out $15 would be worth it for a month of consistent 85 help - and that there's a good chance you'd go through with it. If enough people are interested, I'll get the process started and we'll go from there.
-Hal
While there are certainly paid ally members who contribute to the f2p community, the ally side could use someone like Lagoon.
Anyway, here's what I'm thinking. I have a lot of free time, but am extremely tight on cash. Now I know you all don't really care about my life story, but this is the situation I'm in... I recently graduated from college with a BA in Criminal Justice with the intention of getting a job in law enforcement... which turned out to be horrible timing, because of the condition of the US economy... basically, when law enforcement agencies are looking to hire and evaluating their applicants, it comes down to choosing that kid who's fresh out of college, whom the agency would have to pay to train; or a myriad of folks who were previously officers but were laid off because of the infamous 'budget cuts' that have been all too common lately; whom the agency would not need to train, but simply hire and put in a squad car. Long story short, I probably won't be getting a job in my career field until the US economy stabilizes a bit... until then it's going to be minimum-wage jobs that barely cover rent and certainly do not merit spending $15 per month on a video game.
I do have a (frozen) Cataclysm-level account, though, and the time to help the AP ally in a similar fashion as Lagoon does for the Horde... the only obstacle is the subscription fee. My question to you all is this: Would you be willing to help me with the cost of a subscription in order to give consistent access to level 85 help to the Alliance of AP?
Unfortunately, I don't have any characters on AP on that account, and I'm not going to ask any of you to pay for me to level a toon to 85, so if there's enough interest in this proposal, I'll pay for the first month to reactivate my account, and use that time to level a character on AP. This will also hopefully be to show you all that I'm legit about this - it won't take the entire month just to level a toon, and after leveling I'll spend the remainder of that period helping the community in any way I can. After the first month, though, I'll be relying on you all to keep the account active... probably the most secure way to do that would be for you to buy a WoW-time-card from any local electronics retialer; and send me the activation code via PM.
Once leveled, my focus will be to provide gear runs, rep runs, summons, group formation, etc to the Alliance on AP. Priority will be given to the one who donates the month in question... so if you buy me a month, you'll pretty much have an 85 for your personal b%#$ch for the duration of that month... so you'll be calling the shots on things like AGM assistance, sporeggar rep farming, etc.
While leveling, and likely for a good amount of time after leveling, I'll farm gold to buy [Vial of the Sands] so that I can truck you around for exploration achievements, or getting FP's and whatnot... on my own f2p toon, I've found the need for someone with a flying passenger mount several times now, so having one would probably be worth the grind.
Anyway, the purpose of this thread is to see if you'd be interested in this... if the interest level isn't high enough, then this isn't going to happen, so don't go running to the store to buy a time card just yet... but if you think forking out $15 would be worth it for a month of consistent 85 help - and that there's a good chance you'd go through with it. If enough people are interested, I'll get the process started and we'll go from there.
-Hal
