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You can purchase VAFs (voluntary access fees) for either game, 3Kingdoms or 3Scapes, using the security and convenience of Google Checkout below.
Your VAF credits will be applied in-game within 24 hours, but usually much sooner than that. Why would you do this? Read on...
- VAFs are purchasable in $ increments where $1 = 1 VAF credit
- Any VAFs applied to a player (a human) are accessible by all of that player's legal characters (if applicable)
- VAFs are not interchangeable between the games (3Kingdoms and 3Sscapes)
- VAFs are not tax-deductible
- VAFs never expire
3Kingdoms VAF Credits
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3Scapes VAF Credits
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You can also send in a check/money order (payable in US funds) to
The Marble Group
P.O. Box 10
Milan, MI 48160-0010
When using this method, be sure to write 3K or 3S and
your character's name in the payment's notes so that you may be properly credited.
So why VAF? (yeah, it's a verb too)...
The Marble Group Inc.
is a privately held, Michigan-based company that owns and operates
3Kingdoms, 3Scapes and all related entities. Its primary purpose is the health,
promotion and well being of those entities. This results in persistent,
online adventure games that are world-leaders in depth, description and
overall richness of play. Beyond this, they are also free for anyone to enjoy.
The support that makes this possible comes
in the form of voluntary access fees (VAFs) from our players.
Nobody is required to pay a VAF to play either game (hence the 'voluntary'
part), but without them to take care of operating costs, the games can't exist
to be played, so you can do the math. We rely on the generosity of the
player community, players like you, to keep the adventure running for the
good of everyone. It's kind of
like PBS, but with monsters.
As a bonus for VAFs contributed, players are afforded a number of choice
rewards they can apply to their characters, a tiny sample of which are
listed below. There are MANY more to choose from inside the game.
Reselectable Enhancements
- Remove one scar
- Reset your current alignment to true neutral
- Fully untrain one skill
- Three usages to unbind something from yourself
- Three usages to teleport to Center of Town
- Free stat reset (no experience cost)
- Immediate, penalty-free removal from your guild
- Character restore from a previous copy
- Multi-guild one of your characters
- and many more...
Permanent Enhancements
- Triple-length afk message
- +25 max aliases (max of 4 enhancements)
- Earmuffs level 1 (740)
- Quadruple-sized tell history (64 tells)
- Custom title description (up to 80 chars)
- Colorized ansi title (must have 'title' first)
- Ability to toggle visibility on the who list
- Remote board reader/writer
- View real-time combat damage numbers
- and many more...
All that said, you also might want to know what ultimately happens to your VAFs.
Below is a rough breakdown of how much of each VAF dollar gets used in the pursuit
of our goal of keeping our games reliable, vibrant and exceptional.
- 20¢ ISP and other related costs
- 20¢ Hardware upgrade and maintenance
- 20¢ Taxes, legal & accounting fees, governmental costs
- 15¢ OMP related costs (room, prizes, misc.)
- 15¢ Savings
- 10¢ Miscellaneous overhead
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