Empire Avenue announced 2 new bonuses and that EAv will be “under construction” this weekend.
“Rhapsody on the Avenue” bonus
This bonus costs $5 and is described by EAv…
Sponsored by Rhapsody, this bonus will bring you all the extras of more dessert plus 5,000e so you can jump right into purchasing. Best of all you also get a 14-day free registration for Rhapsody Services.
Effect: This Bonus has 10 uses, and allows you to buy more than your maximum number of Shares in any profile by 100 Shares. For example, if you can currently purchase a maximum of 300 Shares in a profile, this Bonus will allow you to purchase up to 400 shares in that profile. If you can purchase 600 Shares in someone now, you will be able to purchase up to 700 Shares with the Bonus. The limit of 200 shares will remain in effect for new users until they have been on Empire Avenue for a week.
It’s basically the same as the “More Dessert” bonus except that it costs real dollars and you get 5,000e.
Halloween “The Trick or Treat Ticket” Bonus
This bonus costs $2 and is works like a raffle ticket. EAv describes it this way…
Upon purchase, you will receive a random Eaves prize between 500e and 2,000e, once per day for 5 days from the date of purchase. Every ticket is a winner, but there are a total 25 grand prizes of 110,000e.
Both of these bonuses continue the trend of requiring dollars rather than eaves to make the purchase.
Construction
The announcement on the blog also mentioned there would be some construction going on on EAv this weekend. As usual, EAv was not specific about the changes they are making. I noticed the ticker on each person’s profile is now a different font, and for a while bios disappeared.
You can read the full announcement here.
Have you noticed any other changes?
Have you bought or will you be buying either of the bonuses?
Empire Avenue Tips 
Oct 27, 2012 @ 18:27:56
With 3000 active users, if EA get’s 10% to pony up some cash, they’ll have brought it $600 on the Halloween raffle, and $1500 on the Rhapsody bonus. Probably wouldn’t even pay for the programming to set it up. What’s the point?
Oct 28, 2012 @ 09:39:52
Steve, that’s a great point, though, I’m sure Rhapsody is paying EAv to sponsor that bonus,
Oct 27, 2012 @ 23:32:50
3000 active users??? Where do you have this from, Steve, I’d love to find out the number of players and I read of 500,000+ in 2011. Your figure is up to date but suprisingly low.
Oct 28, 2012 @ 09:47:33
Hey George, for the last year or so some of us have been defining an “active user” on EAv as someone who has 10 or more Empire Avenue actions in the last week. If you go to http://dr-dittrich.de/eav/eav.pl and search for those with at least 10 EAv actions, you’ll find right now there are about 2500 “active users.”
The Empire Avenue team would define “active users” more broadly – perhaps anyone who has logged in in the last month, but only about 5,000-6,000 users would meet that criteria.
Oct 29, 2012 @ 06:37:41
Reblogged this on charlieslang.
Oct 29, 2012 @ 19:28:56
I like the way the number of shares owned updates immediately upon purchase. I don’t recall seeing that before. But I might be wrong.
Oct 29, 2012 @ 20:25:06
Michael, I always thought it did update right after the purchase, but I’ve been doing all my share purchases using 3rd party apps instead of on the EAv site for months, so I could be wrong.