Allowed ways of selling in-game credits currency

[McRow]

Hey

I want to start selling a package of credits for my server. Many servers offer credits subscription, but I wanted to offer the package of 100,000 credits as a one time payment that can be purchased only once per steam ID and is not gift-able. Meaning it’s limited to one purchase per user in a lifetime.

I created a description and announced on my server that it is available for purchase, but my friend told me this is against the rules of monetization in Unturned and my server will get banned.
I checked the rules here: https://github.com/SmartlyDressedGames/Unturned-Docs/blob/latest/servers/server-hosting-rules.rst#examples-of-banned-monetization

“Selling currency.” is listed as an example of banned monetization, but from what I know servers allowed to sell credits as subscription.
My idea is to sell credits as a one time “stater pack” which wouldn’t allow players to ever purchase more than 100,000 credits. It doesn’t also stack up as a loophole, because every player can purchase it only once in a lifetime.

I don’t want my server to be banned tho, so I’m asking for it here. The server hosting rules aren’t clear about it, because from my understanding in-game credits are consumables which is true for my idea as well as subscriptions.

The following is how the package would look like on my website:

Am I allowed to sell this package?

I’d really appreciate response from you @MoltonMontro
Thanks!

[MoltonMontro]

@McRow

my friend told me this is against the rules of monetization in Unturned and my server will get banned.

Your friend is right, and so is your understanding of what is allowed currently.

Subscriptions are generally allowed and aren’t themselves considered a consumable (which is why – after the rules were initially released – servers were still permitted to have currency subscriptions, so long as there’s no more than 3.

This should really be clarified further whenever the rules have another major revision to them, since I don’t think it’s as intuitive as it could be.

[McRow]

Alright thanks.
I would like to suggest to extend the rules to allow selling a currency with a limited amount a player can buy per period of time as a one time payment. The players won’t be able to spend too much money on it and in this aspect that’s even better than subscriptions I believe.

In the case of my server, this would be kind of a “starter pack” for the new players to purchase 100,000 credits once per wipe of economy. My server economy does actually never wipe, so I set the max purchases variable of this package to one per user steamid.

I don’t know how you would define it in rules though, because it will probably make them even more complex. I too believe they should be as intuitive and simple as possible.