Quote from: digaran on March 22, 2018, 07:32:36 AM

paying less to members with no merits will create a market to buy merits to get more in a campaign.

You are aware that this already is the case, right? You only rank up with enough Merit and the higher the rank the more stakes.

My suggestion aims towards a more constant reward for continuously posting quality, as this is something that now isn't rewarded directly and creates the situation that members see no benefit* in posting really good posts as the gap between ranks (in terms of Merit) can be so high that they might never rank up. It's all about incentive.
(*I'm aware some will argue that those members shouldn't be here in the first place, but that's not the point here)

Quote from: Pancheng on March 22, 2018, 10:04:06 AM

I wish that bounty manager could also award merits for every member at the end of the campaign, base of course also in stakes like at least we could get one or two merit at the end of the ICO hahaha no need to modified the forum rules.

This would totally defeat the purpose of Merit Cheesy

Quote from: gawer33 on March 22, 2018, 02:21:30 AM

modified version
stake = ( (merit x B) / (number of post) )+ B

B = to stake based on rank, only merit and number of post is not constant.

this was it can easily be done using spreadsheet/excel.

let say
B =
Jr. member - 2
member - 4
full member - 6
senior - 10
hero/legendary - 12

let say 1 merit and 5 post
Jr member
stake = (1x2) /5 +2 = 2.4 stakes
hero
stake = (1x12)/5 +12 =14.4 stakes

That sounds interesting. So you'd also use the Merit earned since the start of the campaign in order to calculate it?
The problem I see with this is that a Member could 'easily' get more stakes than a Hero Member:

B =
Member - 4
Hero/Legendary - 12

let say:

Member: 15 Merit and 5 posts
Hero: 1 Merit and 5 posts

Member stake = (15x4) /5 +4 = 16 stakes
Hero stake = (1x12)/5 +12 =14.4 stakes

The problem here is that a Hero/Legendary Signature is much more worth in terms of ad space, even if he never even gets Merit but makes his posts.
I think that getting more stakes as someone 1 rank higher than you should be doable, but 2 ranks higher should be only possible in the rarest of cases as their Signature is much more worth for a campaign.