So... for psychological reasons.
I don't get what you mean by making it more expensive because that's not what I was getting at.
And to clarify my point... To me it is reasonable that the time taken from the member ticket is only the time spent online, although I admit it is a stretch for programming it, we could simply lower the "30 Days of active membership" because it's like adding the extra decimal that is not really required.
But if it's for business purposes {[(donations for the "sale" the tickets)show that they get a good offer/value]which it does but it's majority is spent doing other things in the half life of the membership} then well it's really a matter of cutting down the fluff that it carries since as you state:
That's 720 hours of online time just for one member ticket. Most people don't spend that much time online over the course of half a year. It's fine as it is imo. It's only 3.50€ or 10m.
My intention is to maybe have a measurement to when people, could in a given time, donate/buy a membership again. Because re-spending of a ticket seems a bit absurd making people buy time they will ultimately lose for being away from the game. Thus one ticket would mean less donations, but it would allow players to advance economically faster and not have such a large amount of people item hoarding, just to show off and never use. Which doesn't require someone buying/donating so frequently and thus exploiting the market when they holding 20+ member tickets at one time, with no limit to set the amount of members tickets they may be able to own, then people make this game a pay to win which has happened. Iirc... And sorry to grave-dig this, but was this not the reason for the old emps scape to be shut down in the first place: Because of too much profits? / Were those just fallacious rumors?
So many questions... I digress. :3
And in response to having "less donations": we could simply just make the amount of time less: E.g. 7 actual days/ 168 hrs per member ticket. Which is honestly more than necessary.
But again I was asking why not have a timer, that just simply says: "hey look you can spare time" once a person logs in/to have a slightly more accurate measure of time. Please? Thanks!