Reset (Your Portfolio) Button
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We’ve had a lot of requests from Survivors who would like to reset their Portfolios and get back to $100,000.
So, we’ve come up with a handy-dandy RESET button that we hope to roll out in June when we open our new Store. We’re thinking that the first reset would be free, like a Mulligan in golf, and all future resets would be priced around $9.95. There would be no limit to the number of resets available to Survivors.
Buddy Lists
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Survivors often mention in the Forums how meeting other people has been one of the best parts of playing the game. Now, we’re going to make it even easier to stay find and stay connected to your Survivor friends.
Introducing Buddy Lists! Now, you can keep a list of your Survivor friends and track their portfolio performance on the Leaderboard! See the preview image to the left as an example of how a Buddy List would be incorporated into the Dashboard.
Another neat feature we included is when you invite your friends to play the game and when they join, they are automatically added to your Buddy list! How great is that?
Do you Feel like you’re Swimming with Sharks?
We’ve noticed that many Survivors feel like they can’t win prizes* and compete with our top players like GoMaxGo and Dojimon. We see comments like, “I can’t ever beat those sharks.” That may be true, but we’re thinking of ways to make the game experience better for everyone.
So, we’re toying with the idea of breaking the contest into groups based upon past performance in the Permanent Portfolio. It would go something like this: after having played the game for 30 days, everyone would get a handicap (like in golf) and be placed into a playing group, or league, of their relative peers. That way, you would be competing for prizes against Survivors of relatively the same skill level. And the contest would never end. Prizes would be awarded on a regular basis like Monthly and Weekly.
Of course, not all groups, or leagues, would be created equally. The League for GoMaxGo and Survivor would be the top league and they would compete for the biggest prizes. But anyone, with determination and learning, could eventually move up into the top league where the big boys play.
How does that sound, Survivors?
*In the last Survivor survey, an overwhelming majority of Survivors (89%) said they preferred more prizes of lesser value rather than fewer prizes of greater value.
