Community Hall & Executive Memberships

[Alex]

Today, after three months of development, our community can finally expand by two brandnew milestone features: The Community Hall including the Point Market Executive Memberships 1. Community Hall and Point Market The Community Hall is a highly customizable activity measurement system calculating an activity and experience score for you based on your activites throughout DV. The system is based on the Hall Points. You get hall points based on specific activities, including: posting, DJ'ing, being online, filling their profile, referrals, Wiki'ing, etc. We have set up the system to directly promote the ontopic areas by giving significantly more points for ontopic posts (and DJ entries, Wiki articles, etc.) than offtopic ones. To find out, how many points you get for each activity, click on the "Earn Points" tab in the Community Hall navigation bar. Furthermore you get achievements upon meeting certain requirements like being registered for 1 year or having a vivid Dream Journal. Those achievements are being displayed in postbit together with your activity status. To summarize it: With this system, you can see how your ranking continuously increases by contributing to our community! ....and that's not enough: In the Point Market you can use your points to purchase features and rewards! And if you don't want to wait until you have enough points to get all those fancy features, you can also purchase points at any time with the DV Points Converter!! ---> For a detailed documentation of all new features, check the Community Hall Guide and the according Video Tutorial <--- 2. Executive Memberships Executive Memberships are packages of brandnew premium features which are available for purchase! The introduction of those packages is based on two principles: On the one hand we want to provide the highest possible amount of advanced and individualistic features on DV for users who are looking for the most *exclusive* way to enjoy their stay at DV and/or want to stand out from the rest, while on the other hand we want to finally set up an environment for members wanting to donate to DV. Although DV gets more and more donation enquiries lately, those have always been categorically rejected because of the lack of ability to provide an appropriate benefit in return for the donors. To summarize it: By introducing the Executive Memberships we finally can satisfy the needs of both mentioned usergroups while all other members won't be affected as we don't restrict any features for basic members but instead only add new premium features. Make sure to check the Membership Comparison Matrix for a detailed list of all available features! A list of the community hall rules can be located here.