I've been meaning to suggest something like this for a while and just never got around to it.

On another pet game called Howrse, there's a page where you can watch a limited number of ads and get some small rewards for it. My suggestion is to have a page like that here, where players can earn a small diamond reward for viewing ads (even just, like, one diamond per ad).

Pros:
- Players that can't buy diamonds from the shop have a way to [slowly] get them in a way besides the currency exchange
- solves that problem when we have like...12 diamonds...and nothing costs 12 diamonds and they're literally just uselessly sitting there.
- Krin gets extra money from ads
- it's on a separate page so it's not like an annoying popup or something. If you don't wanna see the ads, you don't have to!
- doesn't affect the economy because you're limited to, say, 10 ads a day, so you can only earn like 10 diamonds per day.

Cons:
- post em down below and I'll add them here, because I can't really think of any right now

I think this isnt too bad a suggestion. I think having dias everytime would make changes to the economy that would be detrimental in the long run. 10 dias can be sold for 20k thats 20k free a day for just watching ads. If 1k people do this everyday thats 20m gold being added to the site every day. If every active player on site does it(3,341) which is highly unlikely that would be 66,820,000 gold added to the site every day. 467,740,000 a week. you would see a huge amount of inflation and the value of dias and gold being worth alot less to people since its so easy to come by. I think that a better option would be a wheel that spins that gives a range of options 100-500 gold, 1-5 dias, 10-50 scales, 1000-5000 AP. You know currency on the site that can be pretty worthless (ap) to something people want to hoard (scales, gold and dias) having a set reward would cause too much damage unless it was a tiny amount of gold or exclusively ap or scales. I would watch 10 ads for 100-500 scales no problem. And it would have a smaller impact on the site. Say the 3,341 active players win 500 scales. That would be 334,100- 1,670,500 scales added to the site every day. See how this idea can affect the economy no matter what is on the wheel. 5k gold per person from ads would add 16.7m of gold into the economy a day. I dont think Krin wants to make changes that will make the site struggle to support itself as it will make the site harder to run. If something like this was brought into effect people might also make multiple accounts to watch ads for all the rewards and funnel the stuff to their main. Sounds like alot of work for krin, and potential issues that might make the economy on here worse with little payoff for him. so some cons for you to add

1. No matter what currency is put on the wheel it is likely to affect the economy
2. With 3,341 active players the amount of currency being added to the site could be huge. Having so much currency circulating does not help a website. I have 540m just sitting in my bank on neopets if i was to give 540 people 1m each i would change the way the economy is there. Prices will rise and things will be harder to get there. I just sit on my gold though and give it to people i find on here and other places that still play.
3. People are greedy they will likely create more accounts to get the rewards on. Thus Krin will have alot of work having to check the back and forth between accounts to see if someone is multi accounting

Sorry to be so cynical over your pretty good idea but adding more currency to a site that already has an issue with the economy thanks to low cost dishwater pets and the max stat market being tanked by people selling fertile/having max stat up for breeds would not be a good idea. It might exacerbate the situation which might cause people to leave the site. Unless the currency was for instance you can save points from watching ads to buy no trade items its going to affect the economy in one way or another

Just a quick question. How would 10 diamonds a day mean millions of treasure being brought into the economy? Is there a way to sell diamonds to the site? Because that is the only way that money can be brought into the site by diamonds being generated, otherwise, it would be selling to other users, who granted might generate that gold, but since the ways to generate gold are limited, it would be much less sudden.

Someone selling diamonds on the currency exchange doesn't generate gold, that gold is generated by the players through other site mechanics who then exchange it for a different currency.

So, I just don't understand how someone selling 10 diamonds for 20K on the exchange would cause inflation, because that 20K would have been generated through other site mechanics and just used for the exchange (to me no different than the site generating themed pets which are then sold, the money used isn't generated upon the sale but rather generated through other mechanics and just used to buy the pet)

Just as a note, I am not sure whether I support this idea or not, nor whether having diamonds being the currency given is a good idea (as that could cause fewer diamond sales, because players could more 'passively' earn them through general gameplay, albeit at a much slower rate than just outright buying them)

Just can't see where generating 10diamonds a day would then turn around and generate 20K treasure for those diamonds.

Yes the only way to exchange dias for gold would be currency exchange. it is STILL 20k of dias per person being added to the economy a day if they are traded for gold and would tank the economy