Originally Posted by fastboy21 (Post 40380)

The odds, however, of the FBI using any resources on project1999 is slim. We do not "make money" so when our servers go down we aren't losing money---like real businesses do who go to the FBI. We aren't a government agency, nor do we provide some essential service for our clients.

We are a free game server. This puts us about as far down the food chain in terms of criminal activity as you can get. Our attacker, therefore, has no real fear of being caught...no matter how often or how uncleanly he launches the ddos.

Originally Posted by Lonedrahon25 (Post 40465)

Read this, that summs it up.

Originally Posted by Treehorn (Post 39957)

I'm wondering if you realize the dilemma in this line of reasoning.


"Gold-buying" ruins MMOs because the people doing it lose the imperative to make rational economic choices, and end up paying any price to have an item immediately, thereby causing inflation. I think this happens more from the knowledge that they can just buy more gold, rather than the actual possession of the gold they have which was not "earned".

If this theory is correct, the idea I posited wouldn't have any significant effect on the in-game economy, negative or otherwise. You may disagree with the theory in regard to gold-buying, but I also offered the idea of Froglok rods, which I would be interested in seeing a rebuttal to.

Now, if enough people are donating or are going to donate, obviously such a measure would be unnecessary and undesirable. If not, as seems likely, it's a viable option, and one that strikes me as preferable to an alternative of shutting the server down.