Right now, buying donor ranks are practically useless, as they pretty much only give you a nice prefix and little perks. Now that Ceep0tmerkzes is removing kits to comply to the EULA, why not give donors extra cosmetics such as particles and trails? (Many other servers are doing that) Some rough examples of particles: (Something like this)
They cause local lag (FPS) It shouldn't impact the connection in anyway at all. Notice: If you do get FPS lag from them, simply turn off your particle effects.