Donation Goal and Supporter change

[XeNo]

Hello everyone!

 

So in an effort to remain as transparent as we can with you guys, we updated the community monthly goals to reflect our current needs. This is not the exact costs, we put in a bit of room for profits as well to provide for giveaways/improvements to plugins and various other things.

 

The new goal is: $175, a little more than half what we used to require (Previous goal offered little room for profits as well).

 

We will be updating our Donate page to show exactly what we pay for monthly and where your money is going to help us out, for now I will give a quick rundown of our costs so you guys can see them upfront:

Note: Keep in mind these are monthly costs

-New fastdl $7.99

-Database hosting $9.99

-6core VPS $74.99

-Extra 2gb RAM $10

-Teamspeak $100.00 per year (/12 = $8.33333333 per month)

-Our original IP's $12

Total Cost per Month:

 

$123.3033333~ (x1.5 for 1/2 in profits: $184.95499999995)

 

We discussed a bit yesterday at the meeting it should be more in profits ($175 or just under 1/2 monthly costs in profits, 141.93% our costs to be exact) to cover all the giveaways and improvements we'd like to do for the community.

 

PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT REOCCURRING SUBSCRIBERS DO NOT SHOW UP ON THE GOAL METER (This is being worked on)

@TheVirus

 

Due to the amazing support of all our Subscribers, we are making roughly $165 a month from them alone, this is nearly 95% of our monthly goal.

 

 

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This being said, our Supporter rank is being changed to be more about recognizing those who have donated a substantial amount to the community. It is also losing its Reserved Slot for life perk, this perk is instead going to be given to Subscribers and SA+ ranks.

 

Supporter more than likely will change to be some kind of award given to those who donate a large amount towards the community. I currently have a ribbon as an example of an award that may be given out for accumulating a large amount of donations.

 

The exact amount required to get Supporter is yet to be decided, but we are currently thinking $50-$100 or higher. All current Supporters will keep their rank.

 

Rather than try to explain all the possible angles to why we're changing Supporter, I will be answering any questions you guys have about why we're doing it in more detail if anyone would like more details.

[Bdcoll]

thanks for this. Always good to know where the money is going etc.

[Elemental]

Good stuff, have always wondered where it went.

Good job on Subscriber, it's obviously working

[Zaraki]

The current higher-up team knows what's up!

Evolving the community to keep up with new demands and changes is exactly what we need

@XeNo : 6-month or 12-month plan for people who can't subscribe an idea for selected situations?

[XeNo]

The current higher-up team knows what's up!

Evolving the community to keep up with new demands and changes is exactly what we need

@XeNo : 6-month or 12-month plan for people who can't subscribe an idea for selected situations?

This would currently have to be done manually and that is not something we want to do, until we can get DragonByte to modify the plugin for this scenario, we don't want to implement this.

[KnuckleChild87]

This would currently have to be done manually and that is not something we want to do, until we can get DragonByte to modify the plugin for this scenario, we don't want to implement this.

 

I still think adding 3/6/12 month subscriptions with savings bonuses the more months you buy would be a great idea. (Prices based off of current Sub pricing, understand discussion pertaining to raising the price)

 

I.E. 1 Month = $5

3 Months = $14 ($1 savings by subbing for 3 months)

6 Months = $27.50 ($2.50 savings by subbing for 6 months)

12 Months = $50 or $55 (either $10 or $5 savings by subbing for a year)

[Jeffa-96]

Good to know our money isn't abused ABOOOSE

[XeNo]

I still think adding 3/6/12 month subscriptions with savings bonuses the more months you buy would be a great idea. (Prices based off of current Sub pricing, understand discussion pertaining to raising the price)

 

I.E. 1 Month = $5

3 Months = $14 ($1 savings by subbing for 3 months)

6 Months = $27.50 ($2.50 savings by subbing for 6 months)

12 Months = $50 or $55 (either $10 or $5 savings by subbing for a year)

It is a good idea, just not viable considering there is no way of automating it and is entirely reliant on Caution or one of us BDs to verify the payment reoccurred when it should and then manually give you Subscriber again.

[BoA]

my reserved slot T_T

[Mandeemoo007]

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that the server is evolving, but I just feel like SUP has become just a useless piece of shit that no one wants anymore. There are basically 0 perks now for SUP and all the perks for SUB. And I understand that SUB will be more profitable, but really? What about all of the 13 year olds in the world that don't have a pay pal or that don't have a credit card?