Originally Posted by Obliviator

The thought was to encourage people to join the forums so they could get points. There use to be a notification when you joined which explained that to new players but I think it got lost one of the times I updated the shop.

Me and Rigel had an idea to incorporate the shop into the forums, which required me to store all the shop information (items and points) on the forums database. Maybe not required, but it was easier that way. Since the information is stored in the users table I needed to have an account to store it under which meant it was necessary for a user to create an account before the information could be saved.

I understand your point, but it is a lot of effort for someone who's just playing on the server randomly or once in a while to come on and make an account and link their steam account just to access the PS store. Which to be fair has been proven if you ever in the server and look at the amount of regular players/members that are not receiving PS points therefore not linked their steam account to the forums, so to encourage random people well it's just not going to happen from my point of view.

However what I could see working is items specifically only available if you've signed up on the forums/linked your steam account if that is possible.

Just my opinion on the matter anyway