I like Aguzo's ideas(crazy, I know. Feel like Aguzo and i always butt heads). Gani's have always been a pleasure of mine, and having exclusive VIP gani's would easily be enough to push me to subscribe. Besides the old hat one, dunno about that. a redone version could be cool though.
Have the hat shop at VIP island restock once a month with something new(I know that's an addition 24 hats per year. Just an idea).
I honestly believe that VIP could give maybe give an addition bomb blast per bomb(with a mount). But you(dusty or whatever administrator handled Graal's economy) would have to see how that would effect the gralat.
Perhaps making more activities for VIP island could make it a better travel destination(and Crono/Imprint/anyone who can; retile it please. It's ugly, and the buildings seemingly have little purpose besides the occasional hat or food item. Or maybe just make a new VIP island altogether). Right now the only reasons to go there are pets, hats, furniture, and the loot buying baby. What do all those things have in common? You could choose one month out of the year and do all of it. Besides the furniture limit extend and the VIP item, nothing keeps people coming back. Here are a few ideas to make people come back.
-Maybe host weekly events there, for hats or something. People complain about not making it into events, so maybe going and being able to que up and get into an event with certainty is a way to make people go there. Of course that would require making some hats, as those VIP hats probably shouldn't be event hats. Sure, it might require a lot of admin time to host the events, but I don't see it being a problem if it's one a week or once a month.
- Maybe add some special loots that only appear in VIP islands waters. Or add some bugs that are only on VIP island. You could even host that one bug catching contest event there from time to time.
- I understand you can't have everything be reliant on admin's to host events, so perhaps the soccer field could be ported over there.
- add more ways to travel to it. Going all the way across the map for some people is a hassle. Maybe the other ship captain take you to VIP island, too.
- let people restock bananas from trees or something.
I'll try and think on it more and maybe send ideas for hats and mounts, since that was part of the topic for this thread.