First off, good to be back in the CF world. Noticed that the playerbase has shrunken a lot.
What I propose is players get the option of paying a fee (should be more than the PBF fee) to create a character that starts at ~level 30. This fee would be per character, not one-time like Battlefield Premium. The character would be gimped in some way, also. Maybe they're flagged, or no one can guard their corpse, or certain skills or quests are unattainable. Maybe also you can't cabal to avoid drastic swings in power due to paid characters.
Some benefits:
Players who don't have much time on their hands will opt for this to avoid the grind and have a quicker way to get in the action. These characters probably won't be throw-away since money has been invested.
CF gets a new source of income. With that, Zulg or whoever, can afford to hire programmers and web designers to upgrade the game and website (make it more appealing to newer players).
I'm sure there are costs, but maybe they can be mitigated?
Thoughts?
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