Quite like everything you suggested op
3nodding
Counters that keep track of how much people have sunk individually as well as the community as a whole would be a nice incentive if paired with reward tiers for either.Maybe the rewards could be to pick among a certain price range fo exsiting items in Loyal's shop, the items to pick from increasing in worth and quality with how much you have sunk. Alternately, making exclusive new items the rewards would be an even bigger draw.
Slick Southpaw
I'd love to have achievement titles based on how much someone has sunk into LB. And not pastel recolors
emotion_puke
Yes, please, any additonal incentive for people to get rid of their excess gold is great.
I'm heartened that the recent update announcement seemed to imply we'll get more rigs in the shop in the future. And if the quality of the items inside remains as awesome as this first run, they'll remain great goldsinks.
I'm not really eager for a Project Couture to be in the goldshops that relies on luck of the draw and/or excessive ability to drop gold/money on it, much like the cash shop one. If there ends up being a non cash shop equivalent I'd rather want it to work like Crosstitch, with users submitting their item ideas for the staff to pick winners from.
Besides, if a golden ticket were in another rig for gold it would likely encourage people to make more gold in order to attempt to win it (eg, buy gold gens...).
I'd like to see a lot more cheap items in there too. More goldshop recolours. And the prices of the high tier items be a little less all over the place. For example, wings of the same type shouldn't be priced so vastly different.