Item Janky/OP idea for meso sinking

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    Blame my long commutes for my random ideas
    As we have seen over the years, there are quite a few meso sinks in the game, from potion costs, telerocks, taxes, to chair gachapon

    But these are operational costs and cosmetic items without an expiry.
    But even then, the mages farm on to constant pump more raw mesos into the server, just to fund attackers to get ever increasing damage - the circle of life in royals.

    So i had a rather perculiar thought
    If damage is the goal of most players
    How do we get players to sink mesos HARD for more damage?
    If apples/ high attack pots are sold in NPCs, they will just kill content in the game, and thats pretty bad.

    If rentable weapons that rival perfect equips are available, thats bad too

    So, why not have a stackable equip, much like christmas, where there is an item stat stacks ontop of your pendant or something, And you get STRONG(er) for a limited period of time.

    But heres the catch, instead of everybody being able to buy/rent this stackable equip at a fixed rate, they will have to more or less bid for it

    The proposal
    Donate mesos to the donation box next to dalair for the stackable item
    Donation amount and leaderboard is hidden

    Top 50-200 donor gets 1WA 5MA for 1 week
    Top 1-49 gets 3WA 15MA for 1 week
    Top 20 donors per fortnight get a special 5 WA 25MA for 2 weeks
    Top 10 donors per month gets 10WA 50MA for 1 month
    Top donor per 6 months get 20WA 100MA for 6 months

    The social mechanics that should drive this janky idea
    If nobody donates
    Some random player can just throw 10k mesos and be like oh wow i get 3WA stackable for next week, cool
    End game players can just throw 500k for fun and sees what happens - "nobody donates lol", gets 3WA ez

    Then the next week it gets known that some people are throwing small amounts to get the stackable
    Round 2 attempt to throw 500k results in nothing, cuz somebody be pushing it to 750k, still low, nothing to worry about
    Round 3, lead amount to 2mil, predicting each other to throw ~1.5mil
    Round 4, loser see that 1.5mil is not enough, decides to throw 5mil and see how that fares, winner may try to predict 2mil again/ up the game
    Cycle the snowballing until the community plateaus at a certain limit, i don't think 1b per week just for a temporary 3 WA boost is worth it, but for 1 month, throwing 1b for 10 WA for 1 month sounds like it could be appealing to some

    Imagine getting 20WA for 6 months all because 100k mesos was thrown in
    Would be a top tier omegalul moment
     
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