SWGEmu half-year financial report (first half of 2014)

[Trady]

I regularly see 1500 server pop so if we all just donated $3 per month then all is groovy!

T.

[justin210485]

$3-$5 month is very do able even with my broke ***.

[Blahw]

$3-$5 month is very do able even with my broke ***.

im broke but im donating

[alix]

I am a huge fan of this game, and am thankful for the original developers, midway developers and the current developers, without them we wouldnt not have a game to play. What i do not understand is why limit the world, reduce drop ratio's, not spawn elders randomly around dath? This is just a test server yes, but one you need donations to upkeep and none of my friends, over 200 will play the current version because it is mildly lame (strictly based on the cool stuff we used to loot) I have a masters in Micro economics and financial analysis and money movement and would like to share my expertise to revitalize the game. I am going to get flamed, and frankly, i expect it because if there is one thing i know about dealing with programmers and such is that they are righteous and egotistical, which is fine, so am I, but what i do know is that even if you have a small portion of the community saying yay this is the way we want it, the others will just leave. I say, keep the loot ratios the way that they are but make the higher end mobs like elders drop weapons worth calling home to mom for. I was flamed last time cause everyone was like "this is how it was in Live".... Well maybe if you only experienced half the game.

All i am asking for is 2-3% greater chance to loot weapons that dont get deleted cause they suck, random world spawn for night sister elders and alike (they were there before) and just an added element to let the people that enjoy the leet setting have their fun too. Dont let your idea of what you believe is right sway your judgment, cause in the end, you would have done it for nothing. \

Flame me all you want, double guns to all that do. I miss the game for what it was and wish the vision would be shared by my fellow fans.

Also, why not bring back jedi even if it is broken, GIVE ME A REASON TO DONATE>

[Miztah]

I am a huge fan of this game, and am thankful for the original developers, midway developers and the current developers, without them we wouldnt not have a game to play. What i do not understand is why limit the world, reduce drop ratio's, not spawn elders randomly around dath? This is just a test server yes, but one you need donations to upkeep and none of my friends, over 200 will play the current version because it is mildly lame (strictly based on the cool stuff we used to loot) I have a masters in Micro economics and financial analysis and money movement and would like to share my expertise to revitalize the game. I am going to get flamed, and frankly, i expect it because if there is one thing i know about dealing with programmers and such is that they are righteous and egotistical, which is fine, so am I, but what i do know is that even if you have a small portion of the community saying yay this is the way we want it, the others will just leave. I say, keep the loot ratios the way that they are but make the higher end mobs like elders drop weapons worth calling home to mom for. I was flamed last time cause everyone was like "this is how it was in Live".... Well maybe if you only experienced half the game.

All i am asking for is 2-3% greater chance to loot weapons that dont get deleted cause they suck, random world spawn for night sister elders and alike (they were there before) and just an added element to let the people that enjoy the leet setting have their fun too. Dont let your idea of what you believe is right sway your judgment, cause in the end, you would have done it for nothing. \

Flame me all you want, double guns to all that do. I miss the game for what it was and wish the vision would be shared by my fellow fans.

Also, why not bring back jedi even if it is broken, GIVE ME A REASON TO DONATE>

No. This is also not the proper location for this discussion. You're welcome to post your dead horse beating topic in Future Server Ideas.

[alix]

LOl thats what i mean... Dead Horse Beating Topic.... There is a reason that the poor dead horse is still being beaten. And i think this is a perfect spot for it. If you want to sustain a more consistent donation pool, you should stop trying to make people feel dumb and w/e you are right no one cares, lol reminds me of SOE, so i guess at least we can simulate that. Thanks for your poor response.

[Miztah]

LOl thats what i mean... Dead Horse Beating Topic.... There is a reason that the poor dead horse is still being beaten. And i think this is a perfect spot for it. If you want to sustain a more consistent donation pool, you should stop trying to make people feel dumb and w/e you are right no one cares, lol reminds me of SOE, so i guess at least we can simulate that. Thanks for your poor response.

Development of this project will continue with or without donations. The only thing a lack of donations will do is make Basilisk go away, our development process will stay the same.

We're emulating 14.1, that is the scope of the project. It's been stated hundreds of times before. We're not looking for feedback on improving the game or your opinion on how to get more donations. Once our 14.1 goal is reached, the team that handles Suncrusher will start considering player feedback on game improvements.

[alix]

Sorry, i missed the we dont care about your opinions thread. I just have to ask a question then i will leave and not post my "opinions" anymore. Why do all of this? Once the game is at 14.1, will you be giving the code out as open source or will it go to the hands of the next set of programming elitists?

[Vlada]

Sorry, i missed the we dont care about your opinions thread. I just have to ask a question then i will leave and not post my "opinions" anymore. Why do all of this? Once the game is at 14.1, will you be giving the code out as open source or will it go to the hands of the next set of programming elitists?

It will go to anyone who wants it.

Our goals are not up for debate. This is a development project, we never claimed it was anything but that. We are not hosting servers for anyone's amusement, they are our development tools and they serve a purpose, if donations run out we will simply shut down Basilisk and continue running Nova if we can. In the end, none of this "shiny" stuff is necessary. Team can host their internal test server, we can make it invite only and development will go on until project goals are met. Of course we wont be able to stress test our code but i guess we can worry about it at some later date, or just let future server admins Beta and stress test it on their own. They are the ones that will be maintaining servers and taking care of updates after 1.0 is released anyway.

So if you want to share your opinion on anything post 1.0 related, feel free to do so in Future server ideas and maybe folks that will be hosting servers post 1.0 will take under advisement. If you want to help us finish what we started, start coding or just log on to TC: Nova and start testing and reporting bugs. Or if you just want to play, you can do that to. But please, don't waste our time with stuff that is not important for this project in this stage of development.

[Murkanator]

I can honestly say, that I would donate quite often if the server had JTL. I been watching this website off and on for 6 years now.
$3 per month? try $200 a month for me alone. I miss it so much it makes me not care about money, but then again I never really did care for money.
What I do care about, was the JTL multi-crew ship mechanics and blowing up Star Destroyers, and Corvettes.

1 of 2 things WILL happen from this point forward, let me list them now for you.

1. This server continues to fail more than succeed at monthly costs, due to the lack of JTL and eventually shuts down.

or

2. JTL gets re-birthed a ton of cash flow comes in, and then ****** shuts it down.

I will leave the future of the game up to the devs at this point, but seriously 1700 people online minus alts.. is pry maybe 400 ish players.

P.S. ****** would NEVER pay the devs ANYTHING for the re-code period, Only shut it down and hire 20 times as many coders to get it done quicker.
The only money to be had here for all the swgemu staffs work is release JTL. Plus there is a new SWG coming but not in the Star Wars universe which makes me personally not want to play it.. EVER

Murkanator

[Vlada]

I can honestly say, that I would donate quite often if the server had JTL. I been watching this website off and on for 6 years now.
$3 per month? try $200 a month for me alone. I miss it so much it makes me not care about money, but then again I never really did care for money.
What I do care about, was the JTL multi-crew ship mechanics and blowing up Star Destroyers, and Corvettes.

1 of 2 things WILL happen from this point forward, let me list them now for you.

1. This server continues to fail more than succeed at monthly costs, due to the lack of JTL and eventually shuts down.

or

2. JTL gets re-birthed a ton of cash flow comes in, and then ****** shuts it down.

I will leave the future of the game up to the devs at this point, but seriously 1700 people online minus alts.. is pry maybe 400 ish players.

P.S. ****** would NEVER pay the devs ANYTHING for the re-code period, Only shut it down and hire 20 times as many coders to get it done quicker.
The only money to be had here for all the swgemu staffs work is release JTL. Plus there is a new SWG coming but not in the Star Wars universe which makes me personally not want to play it.. EVER

Murkanator

There is so much wring in this its ridiculous.

P.S. We always had over 1k unique IP's online, wich means at least 1k different people, and that doesnt include family members that play through same internet connection. Sure there were always AFK toons, but that number has always been between 1/3 and 1/4 of the server population, still way above 1k. If we compare those numbers to what we have from SOE live servers, we can only come to a conclusion that even on a bad day, Bas is more populated than almost all Live servers back in the day.