SWGEmu half-year financial report (second half of 2013)

[ZIKKE]

My store have a 100/100Mbit Line that we hardly use. Im sure if The goes trough The bandwidth is not an issue

[Vlada]

Ill point that out to TA and Oru.

[ZIKKE]

The board's will discuss it some time next week, (when ALL this Easter joke is gone by)

[civic_tiger]

Thank you for the detailed responce Vlada.
I meant no disrespect in trust to the emu project - I was just curious about where the money was going. I wouldn't want all of this work to be thrown away for just a small error.

I'll be making another small donation right now

[Vlada]

Like i said before, i alway ask other leaders to check the numbers for me but i guess that stuff is so boring they never do.

Oh and thanks for bringing this up, it turns out that prices at Softlayer have dropped a bit in the last few months so we will try to renegotiate a better price with them in the next few days.

[bdwarr6]

I will happily give you guys a box, on an unmetered gig port... I offered it and never got a reply.

[TheAnswer]

I will happily give you guys a box, on an unmetered gig port... I offered it and never got a reply.

We can't accept offers like that, the DB would be on your server. That is not an option.

[steampoweredidiot]

As soon as I get paid, I intend to donate. I finally have my SWG back, and I want to contribute to show appreciation.

[Vlada]

People dont seem to understand that we as individuals cant accept money. SWGEmu is a NPO and as such is regulated by certain laws.

You can not donate money to a NPO aka SWGEmu if you dont do it through an institution recognized by law aka banks or paypal. If we exclude one or the other, to whom would you be donating money or cryptocurrency? SWGEmu is not a person, you cant put money in its pockets, its an organization, organisation that by law has to keep books and by law has to keep its money in a bank or a similar monetary organization recognized by law, in our case Paypal. Giving money to one of our staff members wouldn't be the same as giving it to SWGEmu, it wouldn't even be considered donating. So excluding banks or paypal from the donation process is not only unwise, it more than likely illegal.

[papacapjack]

People dont seem to understand that we as individuals cant accept money. SWGEmu is a NPO and as such is regulated by certain laws.

You can not donate money to a NPO aka SWGEmu if you dont do it through an institution recognized by law aka banks or paypal. If we exclude one or the other, to whom would you be donating money or cryptocurrency? SWGEmu is not a person, you cant put money in its pockets, its an organization, organisation that by law has to keep books and by law has to keep its money in a bank or a similar monetary organization recognized by law, in our case Paypal. Giving money to one of our staff members wouldn't be the same as giving it to SWGEmu, it wouldn't even be considered donating. So excluding banks or paypal from the donation process is not only unwise, it more than likely illegal.

https://coinbase.com/docs/merchant_tools/payouts

Coinbase can do instant bank transfers in local currency its how Fiverr does all its bitcoin to cash transfers, don't see how using this method would be a problem legally speaking.

[Wasted_Elmo]

TBH its been a pleasure an a great privilege to be playing here ever since i got to Beta Test the game before its release in 03 this game was the.... well u know ... after its release i said i will wait oct of 03 i was in there till about 05 when the call to beta MxO came thru after said and done i return to tatooine only to see that NGE played in and ruin what i thought i could call home

SWG was never the same again till True Galaxies came about talking about EMu this EMu that others said no one got time for that

well lemme tell you few ppl did and its been an honor to witness that progress and new hope that yeah we will get our MMO of the century back
heck every lil dollar counts if the financials is tough like that heck i would even mine cryptocurrencies just to say i wanna see this thru to the end till one of these dudes says what SOE did a few yrs back

"its been a long run"

cause true story it has...

[civic_tiger]

IF you have bit coins sell them and donate the proceeds to the emu project. Simple.

It's what the project accepts as a form of donation. Although bit coins have monetary value to them, some organizations still see them as an asset, such as shares in a company, and until the whole bit coin revolution catches on it will not be a fully useful form of currency. It doesn't even have conversion rates for different parts of the world, does it?
Regardless.. Like mentioned, sell the bit coins and donate via PayPal.

[Pentix]

0_0 so many posts to reply to. i will do one at a time to make it easier for me.

I know that cryptocurrency is the new "best thing since sliced bread" thing, but until we can pay all of our bills with it, and until it is recognized and accepted by all relevant institutions as an actual currency, and our bank and paypal start accepting them, we cant use them.

You can offer us donations in firewood or ladybugs, and while we are grateful for your generous offer, until we can actually pay our bills with those, we must respectfully decline.

ok, that's fine. just wanted to offer the idea of accepting bitcoin and then selling them for USD.

So what happens when your 3rd party currency system crashes or goes away? Where does your money go then? Who will trade it for USD then?

the easy solution for your question is trade it for USD and empty the account. i've seen a couple trading sites go down and they try to get everyone their money. (i didnt have anything in my account)

middle two paragraphs = no comment.

PayPal isn't a 3rd party, it's very much so like a bank with a real account that holds real money. I've had a MasterCard with PayPal for many years.

3rd party was the best word i could think of. but if they are taking fee from each transaction, i'm pretty sure that qualifies as a third party.

People dont seem to understand that we as individuals cant accept money. SWGEmu is a NPO and as such is regulated by certain laws.

You can not donate money to a NPO aka SWGEmu if you dont do it through an institution recognized by law aka banks or paypal. If we exclude one or the other, to whom would you be donating money or cryptocurrency? SWGEmu is not a person, you cant put money in its pockets, its an organization, organisation that by law has to keep books and by law has to keep its money in a bank or a similar monetary organization recognized by law, in our case Paypal. Giving money to one of our staff members wouldn't be the same as giving it to SWGEmu, it wouldn't even be considered donating. So excluding banks or paypal from the donation process is not only unwise, it more than likely illegal.

now this right here, this makes sense. i'll give you this one as a valid argument.

Do you hate paypal more than you like SWG?

no one noticed the donate thing on me?

Edit in the quotes in one post and answer the individual quote. No need to quadruple post.

i would if i knew how. i pretty much dont use forums much at all.

EDIT: forgot to add, i'm only talking about bitcoin because it was already brought up by someone else.
thx for condensing my posts for me.

[rommelrommel]

no one noticed the donate thing on me?

Not ripping on you at all, but no. I don't see any bars displayed.

[Lolindir]

Edit in the quotes in one post and answer the individual quote. No need to quadruple post.

Edit

down right you have an edit function.... Click quote post, cut it out. find the next you wish to individually answer, click quote post, paste the current saved quote in the new one, click ctrl+A then cntrl+X and do this until you have all the quotes you need. To make it easy for yourself, make space between each new quote and write in the "pocket" you get. We also have a multi quote function on the forum.