Hello there, dear members of Duel Academy!
Today, we want to introduce yet another new feature to Duel Academy which could make Duel Points more organized and more useful than ever before - if you support it, that is for sure.
As many of you know, especially those who been around for quite some time, Duel Points have so far been solely useful in DA Shops, when ordering a Signature, Userbar or a Deck; you need to spend Duel Points in order to get either of those here. Another purpose of Duel Points is to get some special features added to your profile - such as a special mini-rank beneath your personal avatar or a name change - which can be done so by purchasing those items in their appropriate shops, especially our Main Shop.
Duel Points are an essential key feature of Duel Academy, it's our own virtual currency, we use it to get what we want, to buy what we want, and they're extremely easy to get if you are willing to do what needs to be done, such as dueling for Duel Arena, Shadow Arena, or winning a tournament.
Today, we present to you our new feature of Duel Academy: The Bank.
Yes, now Duel Academy has its own Bank. "What's the bank for?", you may ask. Simple, the bank will control the flow of Duel Points, including the prices of goods in all of DA shops - yes, even Graphic and Deck Shops. Means shop owners will no longer decide the price of their decks or signatures, the bank is simply doing that for them.
The purpose behind DA's Bank is creating some sort of an organized Duel Points flow in Duel Academy where everyone gets to buy what he or she is planning to buy from any shop with the same price. Some shop owners abuse the fact that they're good at something so they put high price for their goods which could cause some sort of unfairness toward the customer, people always wants a good stuff, however some are just too expensive. You see someone doing signature request for a total of 400 Duel Points, while the other is doing it for 200 Duel Point, that's not all too fair if both artists have a similar style, at least not from our perspective. Same goes for Deck Shops, some simply sell decks for an extremely high price which could either make his shop inactive or have unbalanced or reasonable amount of Duel Points, while many others lack it.
DA's Bank will make this more organized, it'll decide the appropriate price for everything in DA Shops from this point on. We will also follow the law of supply and demand, introducing the most simple principle in marketing: if many members request a good, the good will get more expensive over time. Means if today the deck price is 200 Duel Point, tomorrow it could be 300 Duel Point, two days later it could shift back to 150 Duel Points, decided at the Bank Administration's whim (while following - even if strongly simplified - the laws of supply and demand). We'll make sure to announce it when such a call is taken, though.
Another feature comes along DA's Bank: Members may host their own events. By events I don't mean tournaments, I mean events. There is a slight difference between Events and Tournaments. In tournaments, for example, people only duel following some List of Forbidden and Limited cards and deck restrictions while there is only one winner. However, in events, there could be a bit more, such as role-play, quests, tasks, or some story to create an atmosphere while playing for the event. Doing so will cost some Duel Points to buy the rights to host your own events, once the appropriate amount of Duel Points are paid you'll be allowed to host your event while keeping in mind the bank won't interfere with your events. Consequences are that making an active event is your job, we don't care if it died, frankly said. We will only provide the necessary administrative needs to set up permissions, nothing else.
You think that's all? Well, you're mistaken. And another thing comes along DA's Bank: joining Tournaments is no longer free of toll anymore.
What does that mean, you ask? You see, we've seen a lot of people joining tournaments then leave and decide to become inactive just because they think they can do that, well, we got bored of that after 5 years of the same treatment. From now on, joining a tournament will require you to pay a small amount of Duel Points in order to do so, also going inactive in a tournament will cause 20% of your Duel Points to be taken, and one Tournament Strike to be added to your record. Oh, yeah, what are Tournament Strikes?
Each and every member of Duel Academy will have a maximum total of 7 strikes on his DA profile, each time he goes inactive in a tournament without a VERY good reason, one strike will be added to an initial amount of 0 Strikes on his profile, once you reach 7 Tournament Strikes you'll be prohibited from joining Tournaments in Duel Academy for an indefinite amount of time.
