Guild Wars 2

Well, besides the lucky people with enough money to feel OK to pay for upgrades themselves, the current system is pretty exclusionary and at the whim of those who do have the mullah.

I think it would be great to consider letting upgrades be something to which everyone can contribute.

Instead, as of now, 1 person has to be dedicated enough to spend solely their money/karma. Or, 1 person has to be trusted to spend mailed money on upgrades. And 1 person can upgrade something that really shouldn’t be upgraded first.

I think the cooperative spirit of the game would be better served by making it a map-wide deposit fund where players put money into whichever upgrades are available. Then, whichever upgrade reaches its funds first is done first, and so on. You can increase the costs or something if you feel it has to be harder to do with that option, but let everyone contribute whatever amount they want to reach the ultimate goals of upgrading and defending. That way people will stop qq-ing about needing upgrades while no one has the money to do so themselves.