My Idea to Keep the Server Up

[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.

[LittleSorcerer7]

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

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.

There will never be purchasing of items for real life money, in other threads this has been discussed Even for keeping the server alive. It wont happen and I would personally stop playing if they gave items for "Donations".