My Idea to Keep the Server Up

[Kyronix]

I feel so bad, because I just found this server and honestly had planned already on making this my gaming home for the next... however many years its operational. The economy sucks here in Socal and with a failed attempt at starting my own business I'm in the hole a LOT. I would donate the 500 if I had it, believe me and I would be proud. It makes me happy, not only that ive found this great server, but that the people on it are as dedicated and awesome as the concept that founded it.

Godspeed and hopefully ill be able to donate soon (start a new job on the 27th [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] )

[trolleleet]

If this is the end, it sure is a good way to go out with some few thousand dollars. In 2 weeks time you could be livin la vida loca by then.

I aint giving money away for nothing, atleast let me play with lag.

[Zordana]

Originally Posted by trolleleet [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

atleast let me play with lag.

this!

[xorbier]

"Answer seems simple, allow a one-time option to buy plat or gear for whatever price ($10-$40?), or even just a cool-looking item to serve as a status symbol (rawr I'm better than you), or something fun like a rod with ten charges of turn your target into a Froglok. Incentivize.".

damn liberals

[Ceridain]

fight the good fight!

[Lonedrahon25]

Originally Posted by fastboy21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.

Read this, that summs it up.

[choklo]

Originally Posted by Lonedrahon25 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Read this, that summs it up.

That is the whole point of this thread. If keeping the server up is largely about money, we can fix that. When did the dev make that comment?

We have 3400+ people on this forum. $10 each, and we donate 34K to the sever. $1500 should be easy to manage. Some people will donate a few hundred, they say.

Some dev input would be extremely helpful. If we had some number to shoot for, we'd do it easily. If people were told, "We are about 10k short to make security upgrades," that would help tremendously.

[choklo]

Not everybody can or will donate. But $10 is not alot individually. How much do you spend on pizza, coffee, eating out, other games or entertainment? You can't buy much with $10 today. It's probably not a great sacrafice for most of us for unlimited free EQ classic that can't be found anywhere else.

I'd also like to know how much the equipment would cost. I'm sure it works, as all the current MMO's are able to withstand this type of attack generally.

[url0st]

id donate too, be great if we had an idea of how much is needed to prevent this, then people could see the exact dollar amount to when they get to start playing. Could use one of those donation goal meter things.

[choklo]

Originally Posted by url0st [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

id donate too, be great if we had an idea of how much is needed to prevent this, then people could see the exact dollar amount to when they get to start playing. Could use one of those donation goal meter things.

I'd bet that would work well. People are so freekin addicted to this game, I could see that meter filling up as quickly as the exp bar in lower guk.