Donation Systems for Servers

[AdinX]

Let's all be honest, finishing some projects we start is hard. Right now I'm working on a lunar high security prison, and with almost 88k bricks and an almost constantly empty server, there's not a lot of motivation to continue.
So some people use a donation system for that extra kick to continue.

Now that's not all bad, and some servers genuinely are well maintained and worked on constantly (ex. - Pecon's boss battles, whenever I'm on there are admins.) however, there are instances where this is ridiculous. Without naming names, someone told me the info for Tezuni's donation system: he's made almost $700, with $20 per person. I've seen the files and everything over Skype and it's ridiculous. $700.
Tezuni is never on and when he is he plays his own game as opposed to working.
Does this seem like a lot? Maybe I'm blowing it out of perspective. I'd like to hear other people's opinions on donation systems.

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[Pandan]

i doubt he's made 700.

[Lugnut]

if you're not getting a lot of donations, your thing probably isn't cool enough...

[elm]

Lol he hasn't made 700$.

[nerraD]

Tezuni made 700? I think he's bullstuffting you pal, try not to be too gullible next time!

[PeeEsPee]

He has 71 VIPs for 10+ donations each, but that also counts VIPs before the limit was 10 (was 5) and people who donated over 10 dollars, which there are many of. Speaking of tezuni, if you end up choosing a donation system, there are some good ways to get perks automatically, ex http://tezuni.com

(also VIP isn't 20 dollars)

[Kalphiter^4]

1) Everybody who has set up the donation feature has a "donation profile"
2) On this "donation profile" page, the person must specify his monthly costs and the amount of servers, as well as a description of each.
3) There is a count of how much money this person has received, so if costs are covered, people can choose whether they want to donate anyway

For number 3, there could be some way to track all the donations and how long ago they were.

[Jakobblockhead]

LOL





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[Bacon Pancakes]

Tezuni has alot of donators - not enough for $700 (£439)

[$trinick]

$700 isn't a ridiculous amount of money over mulitple years by anyone's standards. Working part time at McDonalds will net you that much money in a month. Even if Tezuni did make $700, the rate at which he made it kind of defeats the purpose of even asking.

However, I am a huge fan of the idea of donation systems for servers. If every single active Blockland user donated $5 a month to their favorite server, really good servers could potentially bring in hundreds of dollars a month to support progressive development of their servers. As popularity falls, income falls too. What better incentive to make your server the best possible? Not to mention, the work required to create and host a high quality server definitely justifies some kind of benefit.

[Pandan]

^ that's true. 700 is easy money over a year of donations or so.

And i would have to agree with the donation system. I've never been spiteful of tezuni's donation system.
It's a clever idea.

[sir dooble]

^ that's true. 700 is easy money over a year of donations or so.

And i would have to agree with the donation system. I've never been spiteful of tezuni's donation system.
It's a clever idea.

Ignoring whatever quality issues there are on Tezuni's server, I'd be really happy to have a very popular server.

And if people were happy to donate to it, I don't think I'd complain.

[AdinX]

in psp's own words:
People donate out of the goodness of their hearts. I've donated tons of stuff, free steam games, money, etc. It doesn't really require an award.
However when you put in some kind of reward of VIP system, things become so much more about "I want that" and there tend to be more donations, but for the bare minimum.

Do you guys think making in-game content for donations is right/fair?

[Subpixel]

in psp's own words:
People donate out of the goodness of their hearts. I've donated tons of stuff, free steam games, money, etc. It doesn't really require an award.
However when you put in some kind of reward of VIP system, things become so much more about "I want that" and there tend to be more donations, but for the bare minimum.

Do you guys think making in-game content for donations is right/fair?

Psp convinced me to open donations to raise the $35 he wanted for the domain name he jacked. When I told him I haven't received any donations a month later, that's what he told me. I sold my iPod a couple weeks ago to pay for hosting, and when I confronted him to buy the domain, he wouldn't give it up anymore. I didn't really want to give in-game advantages that actually affect the gameplay, I just don't think that's fair.

[Pandan]

Or you can just get a job lol ^

RIP ipod