(because there seem to be people who don't get how it works yet; and besides a nice summary makes everyone's Thanksgiving a little brighter XD)

(Originally posted in Hidden Sand's Discord so it's addressed to us Sandy Spartans)



**How do these donations work, anyway?** Group donations are pretty vital in an active group like this, so please donate when you can! But how, and why?


**THE HOW** First, join a group XD y’all are good on that. Next, go to your bottom left and find “Group”. Under what shows up first – Group Activities – you can keep tabs on our current progress with the group and how many funds we need to upgrade levels. To *donate* - go to Group Donations. There you can donate coins to the group. Donate in multiples of 3000, since each batch of 3000 coins you donate gives 1 group fund to us and 1 group contribution to you. If you click in the box where you donate, you can see how much you’ve donated so far and what your maximum daily donations are – these are based on level, I think. So when we say “max donations” we mean that a level 79 like me has donated 1200000 coins, which translates to 400 funds/donations.



**THE WHY**1. Group skills, which are better than strengthening post 50 or 60.

2. We won’t kick you XD a history of lots of donating gains you 3-4 extra days of offline time before we kick.

3. It benefits all of us to have something on the board daily, for not only upgrading, which gives power to all group members including yourself, but for the new activities thing.

4. Bounties! And heads up, if you don’t have a medal you can’t auto-complete bounties, so to do a donation bounty you need to be 9000 below the max. I’d wait until after you’re done your 2 S-ranks, at least, to max; otherwise you’ll be missing EXP. (Anything’s better than the time I thought I was so cool, planning ahead for a situation just like this… when I realized I left 3000 un-donated, not 9000; or 1 fund instead of 3 XD d’oh)
**OUR SYSTEM**

@everyone For anyone who doesn't know the donate system thang, here it is for future reference: "The plan is to save coins Mon-Thurs and donate max or as much as you can on Fri-Sun. This way we can upgrade group stuff and no one feels pressured to donate every day."

So, Mon-Thurs just donate whatever you feel like for bounties, 8 Gates, because you can, etc.; and Fri-Sun's donations depend on how much you've saved and what your daily max donation limit is. If you don't hit the limit, don't feel bad; I usually don't either, mostly (shh don't tell XD). But the point is to give y'all a break and then push for updates on the weekends.