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[Hobo_Bill]

Oh, sorry Necro, I misunderstood your post. It's a novel idea, and I hope that you find the funding for it, but personally I gave up paying to play Mmud back in Dialup days.

[Raiden]

Interested to see where your board goes Necro... I would just consider other options such as Sven noted before even pondering making a board running off of donations/pay.



~Raiden (I almost signed my post 'Ray'... how sad is that?)

[Necrosaro420]

why don't you donate the edits? or you could find someone else to host it...



I have thought of that. There are only a few people that I really know that run boards that I know I could trust. One dont want anything but a legit/nonedited, and the other few already have edited boards. Shrug, maybe in a year after I get out aschool and get a good job making some decent money I can afford it...until then...I guess ill just have to keep editing away.

[Raybdbomb]

donation?



nope :P

[Hobo_Bill]

There ya go, edit some more so when it is released it'll blow our socks off. Test it locally, get all the bugs worked out..

[iNViSiGOD]

Raiden, apparently you don't know much. You say no one will donate I may beg to differ. I remember about a year or so ago, someone did more than donate money to a edited board, they donated a WHOLE computer to an edited board, and that board would happen to be Morbid BBS. Now whatever happened to that computer is unknown to me I just know for a fact that there are people out there who, if you do edit a board good, will donate.





Same with Lunar Dynamics.

[Demosthenes]

just from knowing mudders, i'd venture to guess that raiden is right. you may get isolated donations, but i really don't see a good percentage of your users going and donating enough to keep the board running. even assuming 10% donate, which seem like outlandishly good odds to me, if they each donate 5 bucks you'll need 100 users to break even on running a regular cable line -- which means you'll have about enough bandwidth to support 56, maybe 64 users comfortably. the problem only increases as you get larger.

[Raybdbomb]

an old computer is different from $50/month for dsl tho...

[Hobo_Bill]

It wasn't an old computer, if I remember right, Ray. It was a completely new system donated by a very nice person who's better off than I am. :wordup:

[Raybdbomb]

completely new celeron 500 mhz with 128 MB ram...



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