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Title: Donations needed
Post by: Bartosz on September 29, 2012, 10:04:50 pm
Hello,

There was no such announcement since quite a time, in fact, since we've moved to new server. It does not mean that new server runs on air, it's just we've gathered quite much last time (and we've managed to transfer things smoothly, avoiding double-costs). Additionaly, the paying method is now different. We don't need to pay up front, we're charged (technically, I'm charged) each month.

I've delayed this moment, as I don't really like to jump here and ask for money, but you know the drill. The typical 'money is needed for server machine to work, not for lazy devs to work' applies, so I count on you!

Now, the facts:
* Monthly fee is 49€
* I'm constantly covering the costs, I've resigned from usual 3 months donation calls, so now we should gather as much as we can (that is, 100€ plus some buffer for upcoming time).

(http://fonline2238.net/images/donate.png) (http://donate.fonline2238.net/)

Thanks in advance!
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Alexandrite on September 30, 2012, 01:20:55 am
I would donate, but I don't have a credit card... :P
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: chocolate_chip_cookies on September 30, 2012, 06:24:02 am
I will donate "soon" ;)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Michaelh139 on September 30, 2012, 09:12:23 am
@at the people posting in this thread:

(http://static1.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/Holy+shit.+That+was+one+of+the+first+threads+I+_89f073cfca16c0983e228f56363ecfbd.jpg)

Remove fast relog and I'll donate $20 USD (which is like.... 25e?  Fuck it you tell me :D)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Pandaeb on September 30, 2012, 03:04:10 pm
It can't be simpler, really.
You fix things we ask, you got donates. From me aswell.
So, I am starting counting - what will happen first: the end of funds or the update coming "soon"? :D
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Evil Genius on September 30, 2012, 04:05:32 pm
what a joke scypior, make a game for gamers, then we will donate easy
you are doing bigger and bigger shit and you wanna money? we paid for new server and its more laggy than old one!!
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Horatio on September 30, 2012, 04:14:10 pm
And why it's devs fault, that the server was crap? Its price is moving in the economy class anyway, so i guess you have to choose for a lesser shit.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: brad smalls on September 30, 2012, 04:28:47 pm
It's not the devs fault because we had a Beta for this season and most the shit we hate now we asked for last season like Fast logg and Blueprints
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lexx on September 30, 2012, 04:43:26 pm
The forum runs on the same server, btw. So if the server goes down, not only the game, but also the forum will not be available anymore. We probably can pay for a few months by ourself, but not for a very long time.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Shangalar on September 30, 2012, 04:50:57 pm
No information, no communication, no bug fix => no money.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: brad smalls on September 30, 2012, 04:52:24 pm
Shanglar i agree with that we have a blog just a little bit of info would help
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: jacky. on September 30, 2012, 05:12:26 pm
lexx u know it will happen, people are asking for updates and u are asking for money. make few updates and again most of them will be happy and they will share their mom`s money on this serv
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: FrankenStone on September 30, 2012, 05:12:51 pm
wow what a hate thread last year some pple have donated this year everybody says no , lets see how much money i got on my bank account then ill donate ... probably 10 euros or so  ;)

i hope this thread will not end like one of these "this game is shit" threads" ...
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: brad smalls on September 30, 2012, 05:23:48 pm
Yeah the big update shall be wipe
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: S.T.A.L.K.E.R on September 30, 2012, 05:29:54 pm
lexx u know it will happen, people are asking for updates and u are asking for money. make few updates and again most of them will be happy and they will share their mom`s money on this serv
I must agreee with jacky, players want update, devs need money, no update means no money..............

I would donate $20 USD but no credit card  :(
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: T-888 on September 30, 2012, 05:42:23 pm
The forum runs on the same server, btw. So if the server goes down, not only the game, but also the forum will not be available anymore. We probably can pay for a few months by ourself, but not for a very long time.

Don't worry, just shut the server off, players that don't read the forum and don't care about the server quality will of course give money to you to upkeep this forever dying horse.

Think about the scenario if 2238 goes down for good, long story short it's green light for all other projects, half finished or in progress it doesn't matter.

Interesting thing that jovanka suddenly started to talk about an update in one other topic and about an actual change witch was requested by the community, intended by Solar like an eternity ago. Funny coincidence, i guess some big fat update is coming to kick-start the optimists and money will flow, so by all laws of physics if someone does donate we shouldn't exceed the 3 month limit that way getting some useful changes at least every 3 months.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: JovankaB on September 30, 2012, 05:44:39 pm
In the last 2 moths there was over 250 commits (updates) in the server and client repositories.
Many of these were simple things, some other are bigger projects that are still work in progress.

But really the point is that without donations there will be no public game server and no forum
like this one (might be some small board a on free server for dev use in the best case ). I can
speak only for myself, but my point of view is that it's really mainly for you not for us (or at least
for me). I'm having fun with repository not in the game and it's stored on a free server.

Again - this is only my opinion, but if hundreds of players who play the game can't sustain the
server by cheaping in from time to time, then I don't think a few people who actually spend their
time working on it should jump out of cash to provide YOU a free game to play.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: T-888 on September 30, 2012, 05:56:12 pm
Please, we all know that a free game these days is nothing special, it's nothing to be proud of, maybe 10 years ago it was or more. Some other project comes up if this goes down and most probably a project witch will not ask for donations, good isn't it? It would be like an improvement.

In the last 2 moths there was over 250 commits (updates) in the server and client repositories.
Many of these were simple things, some other are bigger projects that are still work in progress.

We don't see actual changes that are necessary to sustain a higher population or for this project to grow into something better including the game itself, there is always something screwed up and forgotten or something that doesn't bother any of the developers, thanks for nothing, again.

I can say thanks for some lag fixes, field of view, changed SD, support perks, general perk changes, eased up requirements for them, binds etc. etc. there are quite a lot of good changes that were brought in with this wipe, actually very much good changes, but the server is always lacking some good polishing, good example was the new TC system witch in the end never was fixed, though had a lot of good potential as this game itself.

I don't exactly understand thoughts behind the scene. From what is happening it looks more like some crazy like-to-be designer or programmer coming up with features that nobody wants and nobody can be expected to wants them, and then spend long time fixing the damage caused.

This comes from another topic, but oh my, i would sign my name under every word of his.

It's a never ending story and i don't believe you would have any fun with purely only repository, i just don't believe that, as soon as 2238 would go off, the community would go away elsewhere and so as your fun.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: LeMark on September 30, 2012, 06:39:40 pm
I want to add I realy enjoy this game in past 3 years but now I will don't have big problem to see him go down.

Jovanka you can say all you want, AC troll can be fix in less than 30 minutes and we are still waiting. The staff have 0 excuse for that. This kind of thing is not acceptable. We are very angry about the situation because we love this game so much, he have great potentiel but to many time in past years we ask very easy fix and it took 6 month + to have it.

And what about you (Jovanka) banning some people in TC for dual log, when this rules close to never get apply in this session. Yes you can't be there all the time, but if you make a rules hire the man power to be sure it will be respected must of the time or forget it.

I don't understand how you can try to ask monay with this actual situation, no taxation without representation.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Tomowolf on September 30, 2012, 06:47:48 pm
To LeMark: You simply didn't get that.
If WE don't pay, there will be no 2238 online, and then you can just play on some tlamk123, and whine there about their server.
Its not like Devs "asking" you for money for THEM but for YOU, that you can login again and splash some bluesuits.
To all to this thread: If you still don't get it, just keep those shitty words for yourself.



And one more thing : I'am not ass licking anyone here, I do not like the way Devs work on this game, but its their game and you should respect them, even if those updates are not cool, and just making players angry.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: avv on September 30, 2012, 06:51:09 pm
I'll just say this before someone else says it with more hostile tone.

It doesn't make very good impression on the playerbase if a developer is silent for months only to tell that money is needed to run the server. We got some nice devs like JovankaB, Wipe, Mayck and Johnny Nuclear who participate in discussions here and in irc. But would be nice if the actual old timer devs who got the real say on development could share their ideas of the game and communicate. Or just play the game and see what's it like from the player's point of view. I could even donate so that they could play it.
You could have some goals like capturing a tc town, finding all blueprints or constructing a base next to every town :>

Sucks to be the messenger of ill news but playing the yes-man won't help either.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: LeMark on September 30, 2012, 06:54:06 pm
I'll just say this before someone else says it with more hostile tone.

It doesn't make very good impression on the playerbase if a developer is silent for months only to tell that money is needed to run the server. We got some nice devs like JovankaB, Wipe, Mayck and Johnny Nuclear who participate in discussions here and in irc. But would be nice if the actual old timer devs who got the real say on development could share their ideas of the game and communicate. Or just play the game and see what's it like from the player's point of view. I could even donate so that they could play it.
You could have some goals like capturing a tc town, finding all blueprints or constructing a base next to every town :>

Sucks to be the messenger of ill news but playing the yes-man won't help either.

I will add if the old Dev don't want or can't give more time to 2238, give more power / liberty to the fresh blood. When the server crash most of the time  JovankaB, Wipe, Mayck and Johnny Nuclear are online, but they can't restart it, another thing who make 0 sens.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Horatio on September 30, 2012, 07:01:28 pm
you know the drill.

(http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/1/23483000/ngbbs4ec37080156fa.jpg)

Hmm...  :-\

Is it just me or do you accept only monetary contributions to the game? No suggestions or something like that?

In the last 2 moths there was over 250 commits (updates) in the server and client repositories.
Many of these were simple things, some other are bigger projects that are still work in progress.

Bigger WIP projects that come unannounced, uh-huh. I see.


But really the point is that without donations there will be no public game server and no forum
like this one (might be some small board a on free server for dev use in the best case ). I can
speak only for myself, but my point of view is that it's really mainly for you not for us (or at least
for me). I'm having fun with repository not in the game and it's stored on a free server.

Again - this is only my opinion, but if hundreds of players who play the game can't sustain the
server by cheaping in from time to time, then I don't think a few people who actually spend their
time working on it should jump out of cash to provide YOU a free game to play.

Huh. Was this supposed to make us feel bad?
I work too and earn money (that you want me to donate). In the second shift, i work 'mining', 'crafting' so i can have my fun.
In your second shift you work on the game so you get praised/to feel loved/supreme.

In theory, it's easy, we like your game, we help you out with money. Now i see that many people not really like what you're doing. In addition, you make it sound like "give us money or we close the server", what's not helping the cause.

Or do you want to say that you don't even need playerbase to have fun with developing the game? Or do you expect that there will be always people eating everything you serve? (because it's free and has Fallout stuff in it)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lexx on September 30, 2012, 07:03:11 pm
I'll just say this before someone else says it with more hostile tone.

It doesn't make very good impression on the playerbase if a developer is silent for months only to tell that money is needed to run the server.

Which is why we didn't posted a message last month. But this month we had to.

In your second shift you work on the game so you get praised/to feel loved/supreme.

:D I must have missed this in all the years.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: jacky. on September 30, 2012, 07:06:52 pm
lexx, can u spare 1weekend to make some fixes and run 1-2updates. then money will flow.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Kinkin on September 30, 2012, 07:11:03 pm
Bring back session 5 rules, i'll donate. This was almost stable and balanced.

i can see communities with 100+ player interested on 2238, all of them tested or had feedback by friends about new sessions, all of them feel sorry.

All of them tell "next session i'll be back". Every session they test it and it's getting worst and worst...

it's not free criticizes, we'd like to be constructive because we're part of an "hard core" of players since the beginning, and noone supported the project like us during is life.

We don't want it end, but stop beeing "sorcerer's apprentice" : keep good features, remove fucked ones. Persistant universe is not supposed being played with such bugs exploits and/or unbalanced rules.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Alexandrite on September 30, 2012, 07:29:18 pm
lexx, can u spare 1weekend to make some fixes and run 1-2updates. then money will flow.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but jacky. has a point...

If at least one developer just sticks around for a couple of days and fixes even the slightest thing, I think currency will come in...

Just update/fix the simple things like AC or just the brahmins, not much...

BTW, I'm not asking for anything, just the facts... :)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Horatio on September 30, 2012, 07:33:47 pm
:D I must have missed this in all the years.

For some reason i can't imagine you as a masochist, (but not as a poor martyr, either.)
Your motivation must been a great secret.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lexx on September 30, 2012, 07:40:52 pm
My motivation is fun from working on something, not to get as much internet fame as possible. In such a case, I would chose to work on a more popular game. Seriously, since 2009s release, we got insulted pretty much all the time from at least one group of players. Not just criticised, but insulted. Heh, in the beginning especially I was the target for a lot people, simply because I was one of the most visible devs- I was to be blamed for everything, even things I never touched. So yeah, if fame and love would be my motivation, I would have quit over 2 years ago.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Horatio on September 30, 2012, 07:46:53 pm
In that case, Hut ab, Lexx.

Donated.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Pandaeb on September 30, 2012, 07:52:21 pm
Donated.
Shame on you, son, shame.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Horatio on September 30, 2012, 07:55:22 pm
Shame on you, son, shame.

Well. I still appreciate hard, ungrateful work.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: chocolate_chip_cookies on September 30, 2012, 08:34:36 pm
We are striking. I encourage everyone not to donate. If there will be no update in the upcoming days then I will donate to project eternity by obsidian instead. It will be a better use of my money
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: JovankaB on September 30, 2012, 08:35:10 pm
In that case, Hut ab, Lexx.

Donated.

Thank you for your contribution.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Horatio on September 30, 2012, 08:37:20 pm
We are striking. I encourage everyone not to donate. If there will be no update in the upcoming days then I will donate to project eternity by obsidian instead. It will be a better use of my money

Meanwhile, everyone else donated enough money to cover server costs for two months.
Yay community!  ;D

Thank you for your contribution.

You're welcome.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: naossano on September 30, 2012, 08:37:25 pm
This complain about trolling playerbase isn't just bad for dev, it is also bad for new guys who get often frustrated from the fact that a lot of playerbase are just pk or trollers.

By complaining everyday, it won't motivate the dev, and it won't motivate the new players to come.


At the end, it is getting very hexausting...

Thanks for you money, Horatio.
I will play longer thanks to you.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: avv on September 30, 2012, 08:37:55 pm
My motivation is fun from working on something, not to get as much internet fame as possible. In such a case, I would chose to work on a more popular game. Seriously, since 2009s release, we got insulted pretty much all the time from at least one group of players. Not just criticised, but insulted. Heh, in the beginning especially I was the target for a lot people, simply because I was one of the most visible devs- I was to be blamed for everything, even things I never touched. So yeah, if fame and love would be my motivation, I would have quit over 2 years ago.

But keep in mind you got many people who are sworn the help and assist and keep going with the game. Some of the oldest players have been here since many years.
What comes to insulting vengeance is stronger feeling than gratitude and haters gonna hate, nothing can be done about that except ban and junk.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: T-888 on September 30, 2012, 08:38:23 pm
.... Not just criticised, but insulted. Heh, in the beginning especially I was the target for a lot people, simply because I was one of the most visible devs- I was to be blamed for everything, even things I never touched. So yeah, if fame and love would be my motivation, I would have quit over 2 years ago.

Public face is needed for any project, at the time players for sure didn't know who of developers had what roll. They see developer, they think you are interested in the issues of the server, not only in what you do, because well a developer in common sense should be. Unless you weren't interested in actual development, but just to make some dialogs, to be a writer for this project. That would explain your passive attitude to everything what is going on here and thus the angry players. :)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lexx on September 30, 2012, 08:44:55 pm
Our passive attitude developed due to this. It is more healthy for everyone if we don't state our opinion at all.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Pandaeb on September 30, 2012, 08:48:00 pm
With such attitude, it may be more healthy for everyone if you don't develop it at all, just bring back session 5 changes and let it be. I would be happy then.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: T-888 on September 30, 2012, 08:51:20 pm
... It is more healthy for everyone if we don't state our opinion at all.

Huh? Why? I've noticed that players get frustrated due to the opposite, tell me how can it be. I've read for example old posts of Solar and other developers sharing their information and communicating about what is done, what should be done and i kinda don't remember reading some direct insults, maybe some concerns in an inappropriate tone, but come on ... can't be worse that you actually state it.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lexx on September 30, 2012, 08:55:21 pm
Huh? Why? I've noticed that players get frustrated due to the opposite, tell me how can it be.

If they don't like what they hear, they get frustrated as well.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: T-888 on September 30, 2012, 08:59:48 pm
Of course, but that is part of it all, if someone can't manage his manners it's a banana and what is the problem in the end?

You have moderators for that anyway.
Quote
Angry player: "&@#&*#&*@ you lexx don't work, bla bla bla!"
Lexx: "da fuk? Eat banana!"
End of story.

Most probably you have read the forum enough in the past months, have you noticed what happens to the common player on forums when you do shady stuff without any consent of community?( common player goes ham, you just choose to ignore it witch you should and respond to something constructive, let the moderators sort them out ) It's not better for anyone.

I don't exactly understand thoughts behind the scene. From what is happening it looks more like some crazy like-to-be designer or programmer coming up with features that nobody wants and nobody can be expected to wants them, and then spend long time fixing the damage caused.

It all can be avoided with proper communication.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: chocolate_chip_cookies on September 30, 2012, 09:06:33 pm
Meanwhile, everyone else donated enough money to cover server costs for two months.
Yay community!  ;D

Well at least it's not my money that is feeding AC trolls :-*
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Horatio on September 30, 2012, 09:13:45 pm
Maybe it's the AC trolls that donated.

And T-8 is right, communicating is better than silence. The lack of replies can be sometimes misinterepreted as arrogance and negligence. And rage... Rage is always there.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Hololasima on September 30, 2012, 09:17:01 pm
Where exactly is problem, in ONE update, in one "shuted down" server, where will be just ONE hotquick fix such as AC repair/removal.

By the way, agreed what Avv said. For me, i dont understand why you cant make one update with only one fix on list just to make PvP comunnity happy.

I can surely say, after AC fix you will have 50% easier way for some money.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: avv on September 30, 2012, 09:17:42 pm
If they don't like what they hear, they get frustrated as well.

What I've noticed is that devs often get told they are wrong about what's going on ingame and how this game is really played. I understand it's not fun being proven wrong and then laughed on top of it but if something isn't true then it isn't. Conversations about mechanics and features shouldn't be about who's right but what's best for the game. Admittedly some players are unable to state their feedback in respectful way but that doesn't diminish the content related to game mechanics in their message.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Shangalar on September 30, 2012, 09:21:52 pm
They don't wanna tell us they want to remove all weapons and armors except crappy ones to fit to their vision of realistic post-apocalyptic world.  ;D







=> No really, could you PLEASE tell us something about your future plans for the game ? Nothing about dates or anything concrete but at least some details about what side of the game you wanna develop ? PvP organized system as domination mode we heard about ? PvE with more "dungeons" like you added with Ares ? Something totally new ? Give us something to eat !

And make the quick fixes 95 percent of the community wait as much as their next birthday ! And stop your ostrich attitude about how bad you feel with this baaaad community ! Every game has his dosis of haters. Their number will only grow if you keep everything for yourself. Hey, we're here for years on your game, remember ? That's because you made things good, or we would have left already. Well, at least, some... things.

(Do as Rusty : launch a giant bomba on some city to calm your nerves !)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: avv on September 30, 2012, 09:49:41 pm
For me, i dont understand why you cant make one update with only one fix on list just to make PvP comunnity happy.

That's harder said than done  ;) Working with pvp community will never end because it's so quickly evolving area of gameplay.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: falloutdude on October 01, 2012, 03:04:52 am
That's harder said than done  ;) Working with pvp community will never end because it's so quickly evolving area of gameplay.
we all agree that ac must go. The ones that dont want it to go in the "pvp community" are solo trolls like roacher.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: S.T.A.L.K.E.R on October 01, 2012, 03:10:45 am
Sorry, I just wanted to post this


we all agree that ac must go. The ones that dont want it to go in the "pvp community" are solo trolls like roacher.
whoa whoa whoa, I play solo too but I don't troll around with AC, too much work just to level an alt just to have people have their weapon exploded.

I never play PvP cuz im solo and I get swarmed by another Faction :(

And thanks whoever donated money, Horatio I think
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Nilas on October 01, 2012, 05:19:31 am
After the next wipe I'll donate another $90-$100 again.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lordus on October 01, 2012, 02:45:04 pm
Lets bargain.. Players want Name Colourizing, devs needs money. Give us back NC as a proof of "by gamers for gamers" attitude.

The whole problem is that we understand that new features and updates cost a lot of devs real life time, but for crist, it cost almost zero time to "downgrade" unbalanced mechanics to previous sessions shapes that most previous sessions players wants.

And dont forget: Fallout Online is not only Fonline, there are a lot of existing projects and argument "dont play 2238" in context of donation appeal is ridiculous..
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Dark. on October 01, 2012, 04:52:46 pm
Just donated 5 euros. Glad to help you guys :).
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: TrashCan on October 01, 2012, 05:06:48 pm
I have been playing this game for about 3-4 weeks now and I've had a lot of fun with it. I'm pretty sure devs hear all the voices conserning present bugs and will change them when they will get some free time. Just wanted to say I appreciate all the hard work and time you have put into the game. I hope the project will keep on developing. That being said, I just donated few euros and whish you all the best.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: rikimaru on October 01, 2012, 05:07:47 pm
i send 10 euro:)  grrr last time

wipe
added new quest
added new dialogs
run the updater to obtain the new files. thx HF 

Fu with this update

we need PVP changes
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: FrankenStone on October 01, 2012, 05:33:25 pm
i think lexx was not only meaning some playerbase i guess it was more into his dev freinds direction ... i think whole dev team had a problem 

older devs have the power but arent much around i guess new devs / active devs wanna do something but cant at the end of the day with approval or whatever it is named lol ...
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: wladimiiir on October 01, 2012, 06:24:42 pm
You like the game and you want to play it, you can donate.
You don't like it, then don't play and stop whining and asking for changes.
And saying stuff like "I will donate when you do this and this..." is just stupid, so please stop with that.
It's very simple.

Imagine yourself being at their place and your players always whining "this is bad, change it!!!", "i dont play this stupid game!!!lol". I bet you would lose motivation to work on the game, when you see that anything you do is just bad.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: jacky. on October 01, 2012, 08:13:57 pm
Giving ur money and demanding something is quite normal.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Kelin on October 01, 2012, 08:55:52 pm
Giving ur money and demanding something is quite normal.
In case of donations it's quite normal to not demand anything. In what universe are you living?
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: T-888 on October 01, 2012, 09:07:27 pm
It's normal to expect some development of the server with or without donations in either case.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: flame2014 on October 01, 2012, 11:37:59 pm
It's very sad for me to see that there is so many players who tries to racket or has so distorted thinking that dont understand simple difference between donation and wage.
They are not asking payment for their time spend on development but want to pay fees to provide place for your endless journey in post-apocalyptic world.
You all should understand that they spend their free time which is pretty limted without any demand on reward to enhance players (yours) experience.

And it doesnt mean that they do not listen to players if current development doesnt fulfil your expectations.
Discarding all changes because you think that game is crap right now would be pretty regressive and god protect us from people thinking this way.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lordus on October 02, 2012, 12:19:12 am
Ignoring of well known bugs or huge game disbalance (AC trolls, ...), basic and reasonable players wishes (NC), or reluctance to change it results into state, where old and (or) faction pvp players and their factions dont want to donate. Same players donated and supported existence of this game past years since open beta. "Houston, we have problem!"

For my self, i dont play 2238 and i played it only few weeks this session, because i dont have time to participate on experimenting with major game mechanics without visible effort to fix them in time. If i am lucky, i have hour per day that i can spend in any of game. I can imagine typical answer from newbies, "then 2238 is not for you, leave",  but thats not truth. Fonline have had game mechanics that alowed to play and enjoy PvP in and hour or two. Until someone from developer staff implemented changes that are contrary even to developers time possibilities.

So simply, if you will reimplement game mechanics from past few sessions, that would allow player with work, girfriend, dog/children and selfrespect to play this game, then i will donate.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: jacky. on October 02, 2012, 01:08:47 am
Amen...but most of Them Have no lifes :) So they cant see it like u :)
Play fo and Have no life or gtfo :)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: TrashCan on October 02, 2012, 01:26:50 am
It has been said few times already and it's becoming boring. You don't pay devs for they work, they work for free. Money is raised to keep the servers running and even that is voluntary. They don't have any profit from that.
You don't have time to play, yet you expect them to have it and be there on your call to fulfill your demands.
They've already stated that the problems you have mentioned have been noted and will be changed when it will be possible.
If they are busy now there is nothing you can do so get over it. As Lexx said, they are not ignoring anyone, and I believe they probably agree with all the suggestions posted by you and other experienced players, just have some patience.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Shangalar on October 02, 2012, 11:12:32 am
It has been said few times already and it's becoming boring. You don't pay devs for they work, they work for free. Money is raised to keep the servers running and even that is voluntary. They don't have any profit from that.
You don't have time to play, yet you expect them to have it and be there on your call to fulfill your demands.
They've already stated that the problems you have mentioned have been noted and will be changed when it will be possible.
If they are busy now there is nothing you can do so get over it. As Lexx said, they are not ignoring anyone, and I believe they probably agree with all the suggestions posted by you and other experienced players, just have some patience.

You should not give such lessons when you just played for some weeks. Some of us play since the beginning. We have experienced way much more deception that you can ever imagine. Have some fucking respect for players, they are not carpets.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: JovankaB on October 02, 2012, 11:55:31 am
Deception? What do you mean?
You can donate so we can keep the server with game (and forum and wiki) running for you, nothing else was ever promised AFAIK (and you shouldn't expect anything else, because all money goes for server and recently even this wasn't enough - pretty much a single person sponsored your recent pew pew sessions, but this simply can't go on. And it's quite funny that big donations I know about didn't actually came from loudest PvP mastas, but from people that you may not even agree how the game should look like or what's important (at least in one case a few months ago).

To those who donated so far - thank you very much for help.

And to the rest of you - enjoy your free ride I guess (and it's fine really, just have a little bit of sense and at least don't call names people who in the last years spent hundreds of hours working on the game and solving your problems for free).
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: TKs-KaBoom on October 02, 2012, 01:08:27 pm
Regardless whether you like the development path on 2238 the server needs to be paid for if it is to remain in service.  That's really the only issue being discussed (or should) in this thread and is independent of anything else.  If you like having a server then you might wish to donate, if not, then don't, pretty simple really.  Now as for whether this sucks or that sucks, there are already 8 million threads for that or feel free to make a new one.  Personally I've enjoyed 2238 but I think this session is < last session but doesn't matter because I don't have any money anyways ;)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Sarakin on October 02, 2012, 01:51:29 pm
Maybe it would be better for all, if server goes down. Wake up call for both devs and players
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Shangalar on October 02, 2012, 04:57:22 pm
I agree, Sarakin, I definitely agree. And I hope things will change.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: T-888 on October 02, 2012, 05:52:10 pm
Have some fucking respect for players, they are not carpets.

Oh yes they are, at least you are in the eyes of developers judging from what Lexx said.

They think you as in the community don't respect them by demanding something, crying, whining, insulting etc. etc. means you carpet for them.

This logic is undeniable.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Eternauta on October 02, 2012, 07:12:48 pm
"no taxation without representation"? "let's bargain"? This is one of the saddest threads I've read.

Anyone can disagree with the way devs work on the server and/or the way they communicate with us players. But such aggressive attitude and lexical choices don't fit the topic at all. It's some indie game, devs work on it in their free time, devs are not a government oppresing us, and we are not some wrokers' union or anything like this...
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Graf on October 02, 2012, 08:33:37 pm
Holy crap... while reading this thread I was feeling like, you know... hitting a little finger at a wall, hundred times in a row. If you know what I mean. So much sadness in seeing how degraded this community has become over the past 3 years. Shame on you, guys.

P.S. I'll try to donate something by the end of this week, since I really appreciate your hard work.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: LeonTheNorse on October 02, 2012, 08:58:15 pm
will donate on friday, pay day then.

Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: jezioro on October 02, 2012, 09:09:16 pm
Lets see, all they do is ban me on irc and these forums (over 1,000 times in this past year I might add) basically telling me fuck off can't talk to other players or the community. The developers call me a retard... Nope not getting a dime out of me.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: avv on October 02, 2012, 09:16:49 pm
Holy crap... while reading this thread I was feeling like, you know... hitting a little finger at a wall, hundred times in a row. If you know what I mean. So much sadness in seeing how degraded this community has become over the past 3 years. Shame on you, guys.

This doesn't really help you know. If you want to discuss issues, just pick one and we can talk about.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Hovinko on October 02, 2012, 09:31:41 pm
Yes, I will gladly send money to the developers as a thanks, for some hard work done in these 4 last years.

No, I will not send any money to cover server costs. There is no point in doing that. Let it die finally.
There is no progress, no future and no one cares about players who are actually playing this game. 

I was playing this game for more than 3 years. Yes playing it was fun, but mostly I was just looking forward to new changes, new features and another improves of gameplay. It was great, when there were patches every month or every 14 days, propably one of the best seasons.
Fonline 2238 is hardly finished, in some ways its very boring, imbalanced and bugged. And there is no hope, that it will get better anytime in the future.

So, why support dying project, which has no future? To prolong some other guys AC trolls fun? No thanks.

But devs, if you want money for a beer. I will gladly donate.
You earned my gratitude by some work you had done in these last years...

PS: If you dont want to work on server fine and if you do, you can do it even if its offline. Shut it down, do some work, turn it on again.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: -Fojtik- on October 02, 2012, 09:51:06 pm
I have some old clothes and things for ejection. Please post me your delivery address I can donate too. At the same time some older computers moduls for better server performance.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: JovankaB on October 02, 2012, 09:53:09 pm
You can keep your clothes. Thanks.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: jacky. on October 02, 2012, 10:47:24 pm
jov we arent say we dont see devs didnt spend their time on this game but in this year whole comunity feel like they been ignored and like devs dont give a fuck about them. they made hundrest of topics to fix some simple hotfixes and they had to wait 6months for simple update. they get frustated because they dont have life and they became no life trolls. but devs should make some quick fixes and add armors and most of us will be happy.

remove wow with fo2238

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DCCr9nDJYs
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Nice_Boat on October 02, 2012, 10:51:20 pm
And to the rest of you - enjoy your free ride I guess (and it's fine really, just have a little bit of sense and at least don't call names people who in the last years spent hundreds of hours working on the game and solving your problems for free).
I'm going to reply specifically to this post because it simply rubbed me the wrong way and in my eyes it's one of the greatest sins a dev can make.

It's your game. Your problems. Acting like you're not competing on the market like every other game (commercial, indie, free, whatever) is delusional, you aren't doing anyone a favour more than, say, Call of Duty 35235 devs. The fact that your game is free doesn't make it a special snowflake, it simply makes it more attractive in some people's eyes but it's still a product people are willing or unwilling to support.

tl;dr version: you're the ones that should be fighting to have a big and happy playerbase, not the other way around. Otherwise your project is going to fail and it's not going to be my failure, it's not going to be Shangalar's failure, it's not going to be T-888's failure - it's going to be exclusively your failure and wasted effort. For us it's going to be at worst a slight disappointment because at some point in our lives we expected 2238 not to suck.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Mike Crosser on October 02, 2012, 10:56:31 pm
I'm going to reply specifically to this post because it simply rubbed me the wrong way and in my eyes it's one of the greatest sins a dev can make.

It's your game. Your problems. Acting like you're not competing on the market like every other game (commercial, indie, free, whatever) is delusional, you aren't doing anyone a favour more than, say, Call of Duty 35235 devs. The fact that your game is free doesn't make it a special snowflake, it simply makes it more attractive in some people's eyes but it's still a product people are willing or unwilling to support.

tl;dr version: you're the ones that should be fighting to have a big and happy playerbase, not the other way around. Otherwise your project is going to fail and it's not going to be my failure, it's not going to be Shangalar's failure, it's not going to be T-888's failure - it's going to be exclusively your failure and wasted effort. For us it's going to be at worst a slight disappointment because at some point in our lives we expected 2238 not to suck.
He has a point.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: naossano on October 02, 2012, 10:58:15 pm
There were thousands of updates since january, included some controversial features (Blueprint, influence TC) that weren't perfect, but had the merit to try to change the server mechanics.
I won't list all features that i liked or didn't like, but you can't say the dev do nothing.

As for the AC cap, they said they would do it. That is the only thing we need to know.

Considering all the insult, trolling and disrespect, it is a miracle they keep communication and work.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: jacky. on October 02, 2012, 11:04:36 pm
they made stupid featureas so people get mad and quit this game and they needed 5months to cancel their updates. the problem is they made so many troll features people get sick of it
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Crovax on October 02, 2012, 11:07:07 pm
Considering all the insult, trolling and disrespect, it is a miracle they keep communication and work.

Communication? i haven't seen them do much of that other than some who only reply to argue with players. I haven't seen devs posting any useful feedback for some time.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: T-888 on October 02, 2012, 11:12:58 pm
is going to be exclusively your failure and wasted effort. For us it's going to be at worst a slight disappointment because at some point in our lives we expected 2238 not to suck.

But ... the problem is that they don't see it is a failure brief moment of insanity, from the developers point of view i understood that it is their hobby, sometimes it's been a project when someone gets motivated and sometimes it's a beta server to just cover for the failed and far-fetched features someone has been mashing up on the keyboard for hours and then doing the same to fix their own failures misdoings.

Okay, failures is such a insulting word for their hard work - misdoings, brief moment of insanity.

Quote
Solar working hard on armor class.
"Hmmm ... what will happen when i change this 90 to 9999 ..."
After 5 months of absence.
*angry mob of players on forum*
"Hmmm ... i guess i will now implement a magic potion to increase armor class."
Some month of absence and to be continued ...

I couldn't resist. ;D Sorry.

2238 makes sense, yes and no. The server is up or down.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Horatio on October 02, 2012, 11:13:05 pm
Communication? i haven't seen them do much of that other than some who only reply to argue with players. I haven't seen devs posting any useful feedback for some time.

What?
http://fodev.net/forum/index.php/topic,26046.15.html
Way to go, Crovax, jump on the bandwagon and bash 'em. Are you participating in discussions like this or you go straight to the flames?
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: jacky. on October 02, 2012, 11:20:51 pm
better start topic when update...or when i can get ba/ea in this game and to fix ac trolls. plasma nades were nerfed, same sd bursters and everything was fine until ac trolls came out of nowhere...i dont get why they just cant block ac again, they messed so many builds in this sesion so few trolls would be crying but most of fo nolifers would be happy
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Crovax on October 02, 2012, 11:27:36 pm
What?
http://fodev.net/forum/index.php/topic,26046.15.html
Way to go, Crovax, jump on the bandwagon and bash 'em. Are you participating in discussions like this or you go straight to the flames?
Congrats you found one thread in 2 years. i wasn't bashing anyone i just think they could give more feedback and it might even suppress a bit of the rage/trolling.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Nice_Boat on October 02, 2012, 11:34:54 pm
But ... the problem is that they don't see it is a failure, from a developers point of view (...)

Yeah, when you read some of their posts it becomes obvious they're disconnected from reality when it comes to how games work. I mean I understand they might see 2238 as a nice pet project that they like to work on, but it doesn't change whether it works as a game or doesn't. Games are supposed to be entertaining and to appeal to their target group - and who does 2238 really appeal to? How many people would write this game a stellar or even mediocre review right here, right now - and how many gaming magazines or even niche blogs would accept a positive review without losing credibility in front of their visitors?

The problem is nobody's asking these questions, it's just the same old ego-fueled story with some of the devs acting like 2238 is special as if the internet wasn't already full of free games. The reality is harsh - if a game sucks, it loses players and stops being played. Games are designed to be played, so if they fail at attracting people they are bad games. It really is as simple as that. And if the devs are hell-bent on disregarding everything (I mean negative support is still support, if you want your game to improve as a game it's infinitely better than silence which basically means your game is dead an nobody cares) and making a bad game that will cater to somewhere around ten or twenty people with some extremely weird tastes, they should just have the god-damn balls to finally admit it so that everyone else can finally know what to expect.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Horatio on October 02, 2012, 11:45:51 pm
So why are you still playing it/write on forums?
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lexx on October 02, 2012, 11:49:08 pm
Yeah, when you read some of their posts it becomes obvious they're disconnected from reality when it comes to how games work. I mean I understand they might see 2238 as a nice pet project that they like to work on, but it doesn't change whether it works as a game or doesn't. Games are supposed to be entertaining and to appeal to their target group - and who does 2238 really appeal to? How many people would write this game a stellar or even mediocre review right here, right now - and how many gaming magazines or even niche blogs would accept a positive review without losing credibility in front of their visitors?

The problem is nobody's asking these questions, it's just the same old ego-fueled story with some of the devs acting like 2238 is special as if the internet wasn't already full of free games. The reality is harsh - if a game sucks, it loses players and stops being played. Games are designed to be played, so if they fail at attracting people they are bad games. It really is as simple as that. And if the devs are hell-bent on disregarding everything (I mean negative support is still support, if you want your game to improve as a game it's infinitely better than silence which basically means your game is dead an nobody cares) and making a bad game that will cater to somewhere around ten or twenty people with some extremely weird tastes, they should just have the god-damn balls to finally admit it so that everyone else can finally know what to expect.

Aren't you tired of repeating yourself all the time?
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Shangalar on October 02, 2012, 11:49:50 pm
Let it be clear, I have nothing against Jov, Mayck and Johnny. They are connected all the time, doing their best and I support them, especially in this terrible atmosphere. The problem is, they seem to be alone. They should work to support the original devs, which are unavailable most of the time. I didn't see any message from Ghosthack, Atom or Solar for an eternity. I know they have totally good reasons, as well as rights, to be away. But since, afaik, Rotators' team allocated the different aspects of the game between its members and never seemed to be able to replace someone when he left for long period, no surprise about te results we observe for a very long time now. The lack of communication and planning is the reason of my anger, much more than the ingame problems we have, which can be fixed pretty fast, even in a non-final way.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Crovax on October 02, 2012, 11:52:15 pm
Aren't you tired of repeating yourself all the time?
IMHO this is the problem. pointless post with no feedback or anything related to the topic.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: avv on October 02, 2012, 11:52:43 pm
Aren't you tired of repeating yourself all the time?

So are you saying he's right?
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Nice_Boat on October 02, 2012, 11:58:40 pm
So why are you still playing it/write on forums?
Because I just might be one of the 20 people with a really weird taste. Or maybe it's just by a force of habit. Who knows?

Aren't you tired of repeating yourself all the time?
Not really, no... how about you? I'm just really curious whether anyone from your devteam can provide a somewhat satisfying answer to the questions I ask. On the other hand, I'm not entirely sure what's your point... do you get off on acting mighty, arrogant and dismissive all the time?
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lexx on October 03, 2012, 12:02:37 am
Not really, no... how about you? I'm just really curious whether anyone from your devteam can provide a somewhat satisfying answer to the questions I ask.

What answers do you want to have? Should we bow down and admit all faulty things and then go cover in shame? What would it change for you? Would you get off on it?
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Crovax on October 03, 2012, 12:04:30 am
No idea what answers you want to have. Should we bow down and admit all faulty things and then go cover in shame? What would it change for you? Would you get off on it?
You could join the discussion instead of making snide replies here and there to other players.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lexx on October 03, 2012, 12:06:34 am
This "discussion" here comes up like every two days and I really don't feel motivated to hash and rehash it over and over again.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Crovax on October 03, 2012, 12:10:32 am
This "discussion" here comes up like every two days and I really don't feel motivated to hash and rehash it over and over again.
But you are motivated to reply in an unprofessional manner on a regular basis, i see. My point is that all most of these people want is an intelligent conversation with a little feedback from the devs and maybe use the blog a bit more to let us know whats being planned for our future.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Nice_Boat on October 03, 2012, 12:11:20 am
What answers do you want to have? Should we bow down and admit all faulty things and then go cover in shame? What would it change for you? Would you get off on it?
When you admit you're doing something wrong you can start doing it right. Have you ever tried to get over yourself and consider the fact that at least some people who care enough to post here just might be trying to help you out, or at least give you feedback you can work on?
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Shangalar on October 03, 2012, 12:12:42 am
Every two days ? So could someone enlighten us ? What is devteam plan for the future of their game ? Are they going to give more freedom to their new partners, and/or recruit new ones to replace those who cannot participate ?
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lexx on October 03, 2012, 12:22:09 am
The "new partners" have as much freedom as any other dev in the team. Nobody is limited, there is no fuhrer none whatsoever. Every decision is talked about in a collective, everyone has the same voice and can state their opinion about everything whenever they want.

Nice_Boat talks about stuff all the time which we know already. In fact, most of the shit is what we have seen before already, but that doesn't mean it can be changed ninja-style. Reading about it all the time, though, is as annoying as listening to jehovah's witnesses. I am pretty sure I explained this already a few times, but hey, as long as we don't do a huge shame-post or whatever it probably isn't noticed, I have no idea.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Nice_Boat on October 03, 2012, 12:30:17 am
Nice_Boat talks about stuff all the time which we know already. In fact, most of the shit is what we have seen before already, but that doesn't mean it can be changed ninja-style. Reading about it all the time, though, is as annoying as listening to jehovah's witnesses. I am pretty sure I explained this already a few times, but hey, as long as we don't do a huge shame-post or whatever it probably isn't noticed, I have no idea.
First of all, I don't really post here a lot and if you all knew this stuff I wouldn't have to reply to posts like the one coming from Jovanka or I would've gotten a definite answer a long time ago and stopped bugging you about this issue.

Secondly, most of the shit people are asking you to fix is simple enough for a newbie scripter or dialogue writer to handle in an hour, tops. This is not 2009 Lexx, many people actually have some first-hand knowledge of how FOnline development works and this excuse will just not fly this time around.

And yeah, I see what you're doing here and let me tell you that confusing the few inexperienced players left here is not going to buy you a whole lot of time. But to be completely honest - if you want to see 2238 irrevocably crash and burn, who am I to judge? Your game, your responsibility, your effort, your call.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: TKs-KaBoom on October 03, 2012, 12:31:28 am
I think Lexx's display of integrity is refreshing.  It would be so easy for him to say "Sure thing guys, changes for x, y and z are on there way.  I've totally seen the error of my ways, now please send the money." then take the money and run to Mexico.  I for one appreciate that he isn't a politician catering to patronize every one.  Sure the "monetary" incentive would be to add all the shitty features the population wants (as the sad fact is most of the population is 12yo wow playing carebears), which would probably leave you with a WoW lite fallout experience.  I don't want that.  Am i defending all the choices and the direction of the development of 2238?  No, but in order to proceed forward you need to implement changes from time to time and some are gonna suck.  Hopefully the whole process of refinement will help remove shitty features while adding good ones, that takes time and is always going to be individually subjective.  This game tries to cater to several competing groups of players, some pvp, some pve, some rt, some tb, some rp, etc,.  It's very hard to balance the needs, wants and expectations of such diverse interests.  That said, update please! 


(or at least tell us what to expect, that would make rationalizing donating much more palatable.  Or you can remain steadfast on your principles, whatever they may be, and expect to get what your gonna get.)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Shangalar on October 03, 2012, 12:38:03 am
Why not then taking some minuts to write a proper news here on the forum or on the blog, explaining the current situation once and for all ? Speaking about how your team is going, who is working, who is away, what do you plan until the end of the year and after ? And if you prepare some new features and wanna keep it secret, you don't have to explain everything, just talk in general. At least we could have an idea of what's going on ! And if you're fighting against issues during dev process, it would be good to tell it also ! We won't laugh you know... we just wanna know, and if we could help in any way, I'm sure many of us would.

When I see Scipior talking about his (true) generosity concerning server fee, showing he didn't DARE asking community for donations, I see a big problem. And the more you continue on this way, remaining muted, getting more and more people angry, the worst it will be. You know it, but still you choose this way ! How should we react facing that situation ? Except raging because you seem to sink your own ship ?

Sometimes I have the feeling that you really want 2238 to crumble. Isn't that ridiculous ?
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Kilgore on October 03, 2012, 01:36:46 am
In case some of you forgot:

What a fucking mess... If any of this was a bitmap image format, Prosper would be proud of you. Now, some things really piss me off.

First of all, get it once and for all - this game is free. There are no clients, no purchases, no hiring and no contracts. If you're failing to realise that, then gtfo this board and better not show anywhere on internet, or anywhere else, for that matter, because all you're gonna do is cause permanent brain damage for normal people.

Second: the game is free. If you gave donation, cool. If not, great. I couldn't give less fuck. You don't give anything to us, developers, because we develop the game for free. We do it, because we think the online Fallout is a unique project that deserves our support and it's our way to express us and/or our creations in a form of a computer game. Giving donation just keep the Paris running, so that you can play. No donations - no play. I can play with my friends on my PC, just fire up the server and go, go ,go. But if you don't give donations, you're the one who won't be playing. Why some of you try to implicate that you pay for something - for ANYTHING - in regard to the development by giving donations? You are donating in order to keep the server running, you're not donating to the development/team/someone special.

Third, and last - you got it - the game is free. We'll keep developing it and finding ways to keep the server going along as long as we can, but don't expect us to work like anyone hired us. We work for free, we provide this game for free. Someone putting devs under pressure "just because she/he has donated and wants to see a wipe" has counter-productive effects and will most probably postpone the development or (really bad situation, but quite possible) start argue in the dev team. I, for one, would like to see my teammates relaxed and working within their creativity window; on the other hand I certainly wouldn't like seeing them riled up for reading a bad post on forum about the game not being wiped for XYZ months and donations.

Now, a few words about the "wipe very soon". Since we have had wipe 16 months ago, most of the players have left the game or lost interest in the running version of 2238. We decided to post "wipe will be very soon", so that anyone who's still interested in the game may prepare for the upcoming wipe. This means contacting friends, arranging faction(s) and goals, whatever. The end of my blogpost indicates this clearly, and if you didn't get this right away, then drop by your local library and don't get back here until reading half of the content there. The wipe will be very soon, since most of the features we have planned for it already are implemented, now we try to polish the game up before the release. We don't know how long this may take, but **I personally hope** we can count the time in weeks or (the überbest scenario) in days.

Thank you for your attention and for not being an a......e while posting after this post.

Now seriously.. why some of you are still here, after 1-3 years of constant whining, probably not even playing that much? Are you some sort of sadomasochists or local martyrs?

Not that I'm a fan of the way how is 2238 developed, but it's not my fucking business either. I play it or I quit it, simple. The fact is, when scypior is receiving 50 euro bills every month and asks for help, then some of you morons bark at him - then something is not right.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Nice_Boat on October 03, 2012, 01:50:26 am
Not that I'm a fan of the way how is 2238 developed, but it's not my fucking business either. I play it or I quit it, simple.
Right, because games should be played in complete silence and this board has been set up so that nobody can voice his or her opinion here. Makes perfect sense.

The fact is, when scypior is receiving 50 euro bills every month and asks for help, then some of you morons bark at him - then something is not right.
Nobody's barking, it's just some people simply telling him it's no longer worth their money. It's a perfectly reasonable thing to say and actually serves a purpose unlike telling everyone they should stfu and gtfo from the sideline.

Basically Kilgore, just like the 2238 devs you're missing a very simple and very basic point here. It's a goddamn video game, not a charity.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Kilgore on October 03, 2012, 02:10:37 am
Nobody's barking,
O rly? Read whole topic before posting, please. For me, it's mostly barking coming from some frustrated morons who can't get what lisac said long ago (see quote in my previous post). Even though he stated it extremely clearly.

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it's just some people simply telling him it's no longer worth their money.
Again, see the quote. No clients, no purchases, no hiring, no contracts. If too hard to understand, gtfo this board (and hey, they have the full right to make you gtfo, even when they just don't like ya - it's not like you have any rights here).

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Basically Kilgore, just like the 2238 devs you're missing a very simple and very basic point here. It's a goddamn video game, not a charity.
You (as me) are not the one deciding what it is and what it is not. 2238 is what it's creators want it to be, not what you or me or others want it to be.
Basically Nice_Boat, you and several other persons in this topic should stop behaving like videogame-obsessed 12yo kids. This is just a piece of free advice, enjoy.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Nice_Boat on October 03, 2012, 02:41:40 am
O rly? Read whole topic before posting, please. For me, it's mostly barking coming from some frustrated morons who can't get what lisac said long ago (see quote in my previous post). Even though he stated it extremely clearly.
And for me the post you quoted is just a piece of frustrated blabbering coming from an artist who repeatedly gives a crap performance for free and fails to realize why he's getting booed instead of being congratulated for a splendid show. It's pretty simple, nobody cares what your skills or paycheck look like until you place them in front of an audience - and when you do, you better be damn well prepared to take some criticism. Besides, it's not my fault that 2238 devs are getting a tomato to the face instead of tons of letters from hot groupies willing to have their babies for bringing them the best game ever, or at least since Tetris - I'm just making an observation, that's all.

Anyway, people have been dealing with this problem ever since a tone-deaf caveman hunter made the call to play the primitive bone-flute belonging to a caveman bard and got his motherlovin' caveman head bashed in by his angered tribe. The general consensus in our society seems to be the tribe was pretty much right given how poor, unpopular artists remain poor and unpopular.

Again, see the quote. No clients, no purchases, no hiring, no contracts. If too hard to understand, gtfo this board (and hey, they have the full right to make you gtfo, even when they just don't like ya - it's not like you have any rights here).
Actually I have the right to express my opinions here until they deny me that. I'm simply exercising that right and so is everyone else here, including you. As far as the client-purchase-contract part goes it doesn't really matter because the most important thing about entertainment (games) isn't whether it's free or costs money, it's whether it's fun or a waste of time. Bad entertainment = booing instead of clapping. No amount of banhammer or developer butthurt is going to change that, it's just how human society works.

You (as me) are not the one deciding what it is and what it is not. 2238 is what it's creators want it to be, not what you or me or others want it to be.
You're mistaking expressing an opinion for trying to take part in the decision making process. Actually, I wouldn't want to get involved with the latter on 2238 because in all honesty this project is looking more and more like an unsalvageable mess.

Basically Nice_Boat, you and several other persons in this topic should stop behaving like videogame-obsessed 12yo kids. This is just a piece of free advice, enjoy.
I'm not really keen on taking advice resulting from misinterpretation so thanks, but no thanks.


And yeah, the answer to the inevitable question (tm) - why do I even care? Because Fallout, online, in English. And so do you, and you, and you and mostly everyone here. Otherwise we wouldn't even be having this discussion because judged on its own merits, this game is you know what, and no amount of namecalling, dev butthurt and banhammer is going to change that and so on, and so forth. Also, people love watching and talking about disasters. Anyway, no point in beating on a dead horse any further, so it's over and out from me.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: falloutdude on October 03, 2012, 03:22:18 am
I know devs have lifes and all that jazz but please if you guys don't have the time anymore to fix stuff and make updates please give power to new devs so they can do stuff. please all we want is the simple fixes.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Nexxos on October 03, 2012, 09:40:33 am
Oh wow. oh oh.

Hahah.

:D
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Shangalar on October 03, 2012, 11:36:55 am
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Anyway, no point in beating on a dead horse any further, so it's over and out from me.

So it seems. Even a simple demand of explanation seems too much. And yet they complain about their community...

(http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/small/1009/beyond-epic-facepalm-facepalm-stupid-fail-dumb-death-demotivational-poster-1284049056.jpg)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: sHoW. on October 03, 2012, 11:47:54 am
I know devs have lifes and all that jazz but please if you guys don't have the time anymore to fix stuff and make updates please give power to new devs so they can do stuff. please all we want is the simple fixes.

Yeah that right. I think GM and Devs havent time or are to lazy for fix some things in game.. They must start work or this game will be criticaly ruined.
Im out.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: jacky. on October 03, 2012, 12:02:52 pm
I think this topic will be closed very soon. Good advice -fixes=money.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Horatio on October 03, 2012, 12:12:05 pm
And yet they complain about their community...

Not a tiny fraction of community complaints about developers.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Pucha on October 03, 2012, 12:31:33 pm
damn, this game is for FREE and Fonline crew is doing it for FREE probably in free time (no paid for them etc) and server is not running on wind so its obvious that They ASK us for some cach.
btw
 why some dickheads saying "fixes = money" :
did You ever done something for free, for someone - just like that ??
 and how do you feel when someone is always criticize your FREE-passion-work??
Ofcourse i dont criticize peoples who are finding bugs and talk about non-balanced-play,
 anyway I belive that the Fo crew  know those problems and will fix it sooner or later.
cheers :)
~sorry for my english
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Crab_people on October 03, 2012, 01:17:01 pm
if they share their passoin with others they will be critisized for their work. if they ask for money from people who use their program/game they arent dooing it for free because they are using 3rd party donations and their game became in some part comunity game. when you ask for money no matter for what you are selling it even if you dont recive and profits in your pocket. free game - free server, free client. if we start to count how menay money comunity spend on this game we will see it isnt 30Euro but at least 1000+ and now tell me it is all free.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Pucha on October 03, 2012, 01:31:38 pm
 @Crab_people
"free game - free server, free client"
awww i see, so you want to tell me that free servers are runing 24h on water, wind an one big-buffouted-hamster in a circle?
shame on me that i dont get it...
cheers ;)

Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Crab_people on October 03, 2012, 01:35:57 pm
no free is when you dont have to spend your money on someone project. dev team can earn money on comercials or other crap so they can run their servers.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Pucha on October 03, 2012, 01:42:47 pm
did You saw even one commercial on this forum or in-game?
(probably) nobody wants to see shithouse commercials at forum .. or worse
this conversation is over i don't have time to argue whith You,
have a nice day :)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: vinio on October 03, 2012, 02:21:32 pm
for the ones thats says "hey server is free dont say that and bla bla bla...".in order to get some cash to keep the server running u have to motivate the players.so far no good motivation for me personally.so no a single euro from me either.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Horatio on October 03, 2012, 02:46:43 pm
Someone must be really retarded here...

The only costs that arise here, is the costs for the server. Devs pay for the server usually themselves, but you're welcome to DONATE.
DONATING is VOLUNTARY.
So the server runs on DONATIONS so it can be PUBLIC.
FREE, because there's no way to finance it through ANY OTHER MEANS, like ADVERTISEMENTS.
NO ADVERTISEMENTS.
NO CUSTOM SKINS FOR MONEY.
NO ANYTHING FOR MONEY.
ELSE BETHHOUNDS.
BETHHOUNDS BAD.
BETHHOUNDS KILLED V13
BETHHOUNDS WILL COME FOR 2238.
That means, if the DONATIONS aren't there, the server CEASE to be PUBLIC and become CLOSED.
That means, YOU can't PLAY 2238 THEN.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Pucha on October 03, 2012, 03:02:21 pm
@Horatio
 Yep, but some wild-users don't get  o.O
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Tomowolf on October 03, 2012, 03:02:44 pm
Someone must be really retarded here...

The only costs that arise here, is the costs for the server. Devs pay for the server usually themselves, but you're welcome to DONATE.
DONATING is VOLUNTARY.
So the server runs on DONATIONS so it can be PUBLIC.
FREE, because there's no way to finance it through ANY OTHER MEANS, like ADVERTISEMENTS.
NO ADVERTISEMENTS.
NO CUSTOM SKINS FOR MONEY.
NO ANYTHING FOR MONEY.
ELSE BETHHOUNDS.
BETHHOUNDS BAD.
BETHHOUNDS KILLED V13
BETHHOUNDS WILL COME FOR 2238.
That means, if the DONATIONS aren't there, the server CEASE to be PUBLIC and become CLOSED.
That means, YOU can't PLAY 2238 THEN.
[2238whinermodeon] Lol you're so stupid let the server rot, we're paying devs for work, and why there is no update?!! lame [2238whinermodeoff]

Yes,you right, but some players don't get it it is a BETA, and its FREE TO LEAVE, I won't write more in this posts, because I'll just copy you.
To all posting in this thread:
This is not some korean free mmorpg, where you can moan about something if devs got payd or not, its just a hobby, just imagine when someone is fishing and you tell him he is doing bad, and should quit, whenever it's his fishing rod or not, and accuse him of being noob.
Really.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: T-888 on October 03, 2012, 03:07:19 pm
To those walls of texts above and 2 pages ago.

Said it before, game is free and it's OK, nobody is working as hired and it's OK, but that doesn't mean the work done must pretty much suck, like now. I better see less features that have been carefully selected without a rush and some consulting with the community to make better choices, not some crazy, shady ideas behind the curtains and wannabe developer ambitions to implement features that as a developer who works on that doesn't experience his own work, but expect someone to like it and get positive feedback?

Bottom line, it's fine that hard work is done and much effort is put in this game, thank you a lot, but when that effort and hard work is on the cost of my game play experience witch is ruined by just doing stuff out of blue, i don't know what to say .... except for, thanks for nothing, again.

Developers, don't have fun on the cost of mine and the rest of the community, it's not much to ask to just not screw up the game we like.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Balthasar on October 03, 2012, 03:12:14 pm
I don't get the problem anyway. Donation has nothing to do with the actual development of the game itself. It's just to pay the server rent to keep it running. Criticism (in a constructive way ofc) and suggestions from the playerbase is a natural part of a project like this and more then that its welcome. (How and when devs deal with such is another topic but also something, which is up to them. This can be frustrating for both the players and the devs sometimes.) But this isn't the right place to talk about ongoing changes/fixes etc. , in my opinion. Simply donate or not but don't mix things together, which aren't connected to each other.

(Inb4 "Yeah but they ARE connected! I don't like that this and that isn't fixed yet so i won't help to keep the server running anymore!")
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Pucha on October 03, 2012, 03:20:46 pm
i think this conversation is pointless.
Please close this thread,
 Scypior was asking only for help/donate  for server month fee.. as always..

DONATE for server month fee is not equal to PAYING for in-game profits etc.
 Is it so hard to uderstand???
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Nice_Boat on October 03, 2012, 03:33:57 pm
just imagine when someone is fishing and you tell him he is doing bad, and should quit, whenever it's his fishing rod or not, and accuse him of being noob.
Really.

Not really, because with the fishing dude it's more like he's minding his own business in his own personal space. With 2238 it's more like a horribad rock band staging a free concert in a pub and going ballistic when people tell them they suck and start leaving after 10 minutes of listening to their crap. Oh, and they were playing your favourite Iron Maiden songs, terribly. I mean yeah, they were doing it for free and all, but hey, they said it was gonna be good and made the call to perform in front of an audience, how is it the audience's fault they don't like it and dare to say it out loud? And to make it even worse, our rock band here is telling everyone that there won't be another concert if we don't pay for new strings for Bubba's guitar cause the ones he bought with his own money snapped when he slipped while performing The Trooper.

Besides if you guys are feeling so much empathy for 2238 devs who at worst wasted some free time you must be going insane about all the professional game developers who failed. I mean they didn't do it for free, they lost a lot of money... and they just wanted to entertain you! Think of all the ruined careers, wives who couldn't handle their husbands staying late at work for weeks and filing for divorce and so on and so forth. Their situation is about a million times shittier than the 2238 crew's is, but somehow that doesn't prevent you from looking at their creations with contempt and saying that bad games are bad.

Also, guess what? Counter-strike was free. Advanced Combat Environment is free. Project Reality is free. Mount and Blade was free. DayZ is free. So many good games and mods are free and were made by hobbyists in their free time and yet the "2238 is free" catchphrase keeps being used to silence criticism as if it could make the game any better. It is what it is, people are leaving and if nothing changes will keep leaving until it dies - deal with it.

The punchline is simple - you want a friendly crowd, give a better performance.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Wichura on October 03, 2012, 04:09:18 pm
no free is when you dont have to spend your money on someone project.
But you don't have to spend your money, so what's the problem? I don't get it, really.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lidae on October 03, 2012, 04:16:03 pm
Not really, because with the fishing dude it's more like he's minding his own business in his own personal space. With 2238 it's more like a horribad rock band staging a free concert in a pub and going ballistic when people tell them they suck and start leaving after 10 minutes of listening to their crap. Oh, and they were playing your favourite Iron Maiden songs, terribly. I mean yeah, they were doing it for free and all, but hey, they said it was gonna be good and made the call to perform in front of an audience, how is it the audience's fault they don't like it and dare to say it out loud? And to make it even worse, our rock band here is telling everyone that there won't be another concert if we don't pay for new strings for Bubba's guitar cause the ones he bought with his own money snapped when he slipped while performing The Trooper.

/../

The punchline is simple - you want a friendly crowd, give a better performance.

A better analogy would be to say that your favourite band gives a free concert in an abandoned warehouse. You and other fans show up, but for whatever reason the material stinks - the instruments are out of tune, the singer has a sore throat and they are unable to keep the beat. You start to wonder why you even like this band at all. Now if you want to see the band perform again they will need some donations because otherwise they can't afford to buy new strings and there will be no new performance.

Of course the band will get less donations than if they had given a stellar performance. Of course some people will stop listening to the band completely. It would be naive to not expect some amount of rage and hatred. But if you want to go to the next concert, even knowing that it might be like the one you just saw, then you should donate. If you hope that in the future they might be able to tune their instruments and maybe the sore throat will heal itself if you just give it some time, then you should also donate. This is not paying for the band to get their act together, it's not paying for the throat to get better, it's paying to see the band again in the future, performance notwithstanding.

I think the fans are in their right to complain, and it's only natural to think that the band should listen to feedback and do what they can to become better. But this thread is not about the band's ability to listen to feedback and communicate with the fans. Please don't treat it as such. But most of all, just because you never want to hear the band again, don't hate those of us who still do. Take your rage and leave already.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Nice_Boat on October 03, 2012, 04:24:19 pm
(...)But most of all, just because you never want to hear the band again, don't hate those of us who still do. Take your rage and leave already.
There's no rage dude and yeah, your analogy works too depending on the point of view and disappointment levels. The problem is things are going wrong and unfortunately it is closely linked with the donations issue - it's enough to check where this thread went to see why. My goal isn't to insult anyone because there's no point in kicking a dude who's down in the face again, I just wish people like Lexx and Jov snapped out of their delusional state and got their act together instead of bullshitting what little community they have left. If that counts as rage in your book you must be a pretty sensitive fellow.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Shangalar on October 03, 2012, 04:29:31 pm
That's a good comparison imho. Except about one detail : it's not about donating for a second or let's say, third concert, for which we wouldn't act like that. It's like donating for a 11th or whatever one, without seeing any promising change. Being angry is more normal at that point. We have been through lots of attempts and hopes already. Now we're thinking "Fuck, some guys still donate. Some know about the situation and still choose to donate, but others might not. Maybe we should warn them about what they gonna pay for."
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lidae on October 03, 2012, 04:42:40 pm
There's no rage dude and yeah, your analogy works too depending on the point of view and disappointment levels. The problem is things are going wrong and unfortunately it is closely linked with the donations issue - it's enough to check where this thread went to see why. My goal isn't to insult anyone because there's no point in kicking a dude who's down in the face again, I just wish people like Lexx and Jov snapped out of their delusional state and got their act together instead of bullshitting what little community they have left. If that counts as rage in your book you must be a pretty sensitive fellow.
My comment about rage and hatred wasn't directed towards you Nice Boat, but rather to the general atmosphere of this thread. It seems to me like this rage is so pronounced now that if you don't also hate the devs you're at risk of being hated by certain people who posted in this thread.

@Shangalar, I think it was made pretty clear in the OP that what you're paying for is exactly what you already have, nothing more, nothing less.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I totally understand the anger and I admit I am perplexed by some (but not all) of the actions (or lack thereof) from the devs. But putting all that anger into this thread is hardly constructive either.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Enzotainment on October 03, 2012, 04:42:48 pm
What a long thread about donating. Might as well add my 2 cents (figuratively):
For me, this game doesn't compete with any other game (as I read somewhere posted in this thread).
I've seen changes in the seasons I've participated in. Some good, some bad. I don't care, it's still Fallout and it's still the most fun game I've played.

So thanks developers, rat-god or whoever is responsible.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Horatio on October 03, 2012, 05:25:04 pm
Yep, but some people keeps standing in the crowd, listening and booing in the crowd, because it seems they have nothing better to do.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: vinio on October 04, 2012, 03:38:44 pm
2 choices :u donate to a server with the hope that it might actually improve in the future and just to keep it alive as much as possible or u stop donate and let it die caz from my experience it will get worst with every season.i remember the good old days that server had 300+ people online casually and now is around 100 with the dual logs.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: naossano on October 04, 2012, 09:12:04 pm
Im my opinion, this lack of players is related to the lack of tutorials or communication, and the behavior of players/GM which is not open to new members.

So there is no new players, or not much, and the old one get a job, wife, life, get bored or whatever, and leave slowly.

Fixing AC troll is good, but won't fix this atmosphere issue.
This game should be more newcomer friendly. So the community...
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Senocular on October 06, 2012, 04:41:10 pm
Im my opinion, this lack of players is related to the lack of tutorials or communication, and the behavior of players/GM which is not open to new members.

So there is no new players, or not much, and the old one get a job, wife, life, get bored or whatever, and leave slowly.

Fixing AC troll is good, but won't fix this atmosphere issue.
This game should be more newcomer friendly. So the community...
I don't think it's about new players. This isn't a kind of game that gets new players every week like Battlefield Heroes. It had a stable playerbase but they left because the game became stale.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Gimper on October 07, 2012, 10:50:00 pm
$5.00 USD from Gimper and Willy. Not much, but hey, every little bit counts.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: g4ce on October 07, 2012, 10:53:54 pm
$5.00 USD from Gimper and Willy. Not much, but hey, every little bit counts.

True :D
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Gimper on October 07, 2012, 10:59:50 pm
Ah cool, I just found an old prepaid visa with 5 bucks on it. $5.00 more bucks from Gimper  ;)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: JovankaB on October 07, 2012, 11:02:22 pm
Ah cool, I just found an old prepaid visa with 5 bucks on it. $5.00 more bucks from Gimper  ;)

Thanks. :)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: foonlinecurious on October 09, 2012, 02:24:29 am
Like I said before I'll donate when I see some serious changes,
not trying to hold it over devs head or anything, just want it to be worth my while.
Best of luck.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: manero on October 09, 2012, 04:11:06 pm
Why not first changelog than donate? It would be easier.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Kelin on October 09, 2012, 04:25:38 pm
Why not first changelog than donate? It would be easier.
They did: http://fodev.net/forum/index.php/topic,25415.0.html and after that they politely asked for some money http://fodev.net/forum/index.php/topic,26042.0.html so what's the problem?
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: T-888 on October 09, 2012, 05:35:25 pm
so what's the problem?

Your kidding right?
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Pucha on October 09, 2012, 05:40:30 pm
You are kiding T-888... You beahave like 10 yo kid
(no offence for rest 10 yo players),
as i posted before, they are simply asking players to donate for server month fee.
This is not equal to in-game profit - why dont you get it?  anyway have a nice day

p.s
This whole dialog about - "i dont pay because.. and i Will pay after: You GIVE ME, I want this blablabla "
 is pointless...

Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: T-888 on October 09, 2012, 07:00:39 pm
I think you don't understand something, there are players who previously donated and if someone is asking for something in return, it is the same as to tell the reason why they don't want to donate anymore. For everyone who didn't donate and have considered it in past, there are two ways how to express yourself if someone wishes to do so, degrade the whole game to complete piece of shit and start insulting someone and saying that there will be no money or just a hint for some changes that would change their mind. Someone said that before, some updates would make the money flow, active topic is just a reminder for that.

Doesn't seem very pointless to me, kid.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Pucha on October 09, 2012, 07:10:20 pm
they are simply asking players to donate for server month fee
This is not equal to in-game profit etc.
Why are You don't get it? It's simple.


Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: T-888 on October 09, 2012, 07:13:05 pm
Doesn't matter.

Player will not want to support a server if he doesn't like it, it is as simple as that.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Tomowolf on October 09, 2012, 07:34:07 pm
I think you don't understand something, there are players who previously donated and if someone is asking for something in return, it is the same as to tell the reason why they don't want to donate anymore. For everyone who didn't donate and have considered it in past, there are two ways how to express yourself if someone wishes to do so, degrade the whole game to complete piece of shit and start insulting someone and saying that there will be no money or just a hint for some changes that would change their mind. Someone said that before, some updates would make the money flow, active topic is just a reminder for that.

Doesn't seem very pointless to me, kid.
You seem to didn't get the point, cash is not for running out server for devs, they can run it in basement, and take out bugs in tortoise speed, but still they CAN, and cash is for fallout-likers, to play the game, eventually find some bugs and help in development(lol).

EDIT: If you want to destroy me verbally, I do not care, and one more thing : If you want to use argument "another dev ass licker" you found the wrong guy here.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: T-888 on October 09, 2012, 07:45:37 pm
Cash is what let the players play together, less player donate the better chances of the server running in a basement and that means any player who donates has to be interested in updates and well being of the server, it is essential to upkeep a stable population what is important for any player and for the donations themselves indirectly. If server is in a bad shape, it looses population and that is not good for anyone, donating or not.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: DeputyDope on October 09, 2012, 08:12:07 pm
EDIT: If you want to destroy me verbally, I do not care, and one more thing : If you want to use argument "another dev ass licker" you found the wrong guy here.

if you gonna lie about that, at least use some mouth-wash to cover the smell up.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Tomowolf on October 09, 2012, 08:27:13 pm
Cash is what let the players play together, less player donate the better chances of the server running in a basement and that means any player who donates has to be interested in updates and well being of the server, it is essential to upkeep a stable population what is important for any player and for the donations themselves indirectly. If server is in a bad shape, it looses population and that is not good for anyone, donating or not.
That's a lot better answer that than previous one  ;D.
Derputy Dope, oh you...
Gonna donate when I'll be living on my own : P.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Andr3aZ on October 09, 2012, 09:48:10 pm
Requesting donation status!
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: falloutdude on October 10, 2012, 12:11:48 am
Requesting donation status!
donation status - all money will be used for cheap wine and cheap mexicain child slaves.
so all in all devs are busy and there wont be an update.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Andr3aZ on October 10, 2012, 10:29:57 am
donation status - all money will be used for cheap wine

joke's old, dude
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Horatio on October 10, 2012, 10:34:45 am
Derptroll.

He wasnt asking you.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Ore Obtainer on October 10, 2012, 09:45:35 pm
There is changelog, how about donations now ? :D
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: TKs-KaBoom on October 11, 2012, 12:58:34 am
This is outrageous!  I am not donating till the brahmin pens are fixed!  Come on Jovanka, I have complete faith in you! 
j/k I don't care about the pens and I don't think anybody else does, but Jovanka, you are in it this far!  I'd like you to be successful!  :)  Keep trying sweetie!  Good update.  Now I'm off to buy beer instead of donating ;)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Mayck on October 11, 2012, 01:31:59 am
Now I'm off to buy beer instead of donating ;)
Atleast an honest answer...
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: brad smalls on October 11, 2012, 02:23:22 am
lol i bet half the people raging probs wont donate even if there was a good update
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Roachor on October 11, 2012, 04:21:08 am
I'm not donating till ac cap is removed only for me and I'm given a vertibird
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Horatio on October 11, 2012, 05:43:26 am
That guy.
He saved FOnline, give him a personal vertibird, pliz. :)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Sex Apile on October 11, 2012, 05:51:52 am
 >:( Hello there, Actually we can't play correctly on your server (every time BIG SHITTY LAG).
So, i can gave some money for your cost with the hoster. When the server work fine you get the money!
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: The Lost Children on October 12, 2012, 08:15:08 am
No information, no communication, no bug fix => no money.

THIS
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Blazekin on October 26, 2012, 12:05:21 pm
Holy shit, why did I just read all 12 pages of this haha. This forum is more harsh than the wastes. How to know how much money is needed yet or has at least a few months already been secured?
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Gruik on October 28, 2012, 05:25:10 pm
Holy shit, why did I just read all 12 pages of this haha. This forum is more harsh than the wastes. How to know how much money is needed yet or has at least a few months already been secured?

Same as you hahaha !

For your question, it's posted on some devs/admins messages, but if you ask they will tell you ^^
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: vedaras on October 29, 2012, 10:46:17 pm
Well as being king of the wasteland i only keep collecting payments for protecion from others and once again time has come to pay up myself, so 5 euros in, so protect me :D Also i would like to express my own opinion, and my opinion is that many features that are new are worse than old in my opinion, i would like to see more trading between players like it was before, more interaction with npc factions like it was before blue prints, and some other things also, so what i want to say, if you feel that you made wrong move, dont be afraid to do a step back, because according to einstein, sometimes it is really a big step forward :)

Also other players should keep in mind, that you DONATE NOT PAY and you DONATE not for developers developing game, but for your fuckin self so you could keep playing it. Thank you devs, and keep up the good work :)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: JovankaB on October 29, 2012, 10:49:31 pm
Well as being king of the wasteland i only keep collecting payments for protecion from others and once again time has come to pay up myself, so 5 euros in, so protect me :D Also i would like to express my own opinion, and my opinion is that many features that are new are worse than old in my opinion, i would like to see more trading between players like it was before, more interaction with npc factions like it was before blue prints, and some other things also, so what i want to say, if you feel that you made wrong move, dont be afraid to do a step back, because according to einstein, sometimes it is really a big step forward :)

Also other players should keep in mind, that you DONATE NOT PAY and you DONATE not for developers developing game, but for your fuckin self so you could keep playing it. Thank you devs, and keep up the good work :)

Thanks a lot vedaras.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Gruik on October 30, 2012, 01:04:26 am
@vedaras : I can't believe there is actually some other people who can tell normally that they don't like something without being insultant ^^ Plus, you propose something for it, and you do it QUOTING EINSTEIN haha :p

I give a second chance to the game at this moment, can't accept it to "die", because I know its potential, and devs (even if they change or aren't implied as much as others all the time) potential. And I think that writing 12 pages of debates is a little waste of time, when they ask for money for everyone to be able to play. You can't say "I can donate but I won't because I don't agree with you", I mean just don't donate, no need to explain why -,-

I'm not saying that we shouldn't discuss about actual problems and future for the game, especially for those who donate often, but this shouldn't be in here...
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Nexxos on November 27, 2012, 11:52:02 pm
Sent three euros from my account, which had (yes, had!) a great balance of 3,78 euros, hope it helps, you know. Thought that I should flip the coin if to donate my last caps or not, but still proceeded to put the few euros to a better use without flipping the coin.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Mike Crosser on November 28, 2012, 12:33:04 am
You can take your donations and shove it, I hope server get shut down because nobody donates to your crap game.
Now why would you say that?
What made you so angry and frustrated that you would post something like this.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Horatio on November 28, 2012, 06:39:23 am
Is it that time again? Was all the server money spent on delicious czech beer? ;)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lexx on November 28, 2012, 07:56:19 am
i dont think it is. I'll try to beat scypior to post an update.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Black Widow on November 28, 2012, 01:25:51 pm
Is it that time again? Was all the server money spent on delicious czech beer? ;)

it never was delicious czech beer but : CHEAP BOOZE AND CHEAP HOES
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Knife_cz on November 28, 2012, 03:47:23 pm
it never was delicious czech beer but : CHEAP BOOZE AND CHEAP HOES
Then I belive that you never had Czech beer before.
For it is the best one all around.
(Also nicest women here B))
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Killer Rabbit on November 28, 2012, 03:48:45 pm
polish beer is better, and chicks.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Mayck on November 28, 2012, 05:56:13 pm
it never was delicious czech beer but : CHEAP BOOZE AND CHEAP HOES
Well, I guess it's not so far from the truth... I've been doing some CHEAP ABOOZE lately...
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: T-888 on November 28, 2012, 06:07:28 pm
CHEAP ABOOZE

Sounds like a plan.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Hololasima on November 28, 2012, 07:23:54 pm
polish beer is better, and chicks.

Polish beer?

(http://www.pv-obchod.cz/data/eshop_sym/product/5538/velvana-glacidet-ice-free-nemrznouci-smes-do-ostrikovacu-do-20c.jpg)


Yeah, like every other polish stuff
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Horatio on November 29, 2012, 07:33:32 am
Ah come on.

Seriously, how's the status? It's not that i'm that eager to donate my hardearned cash just so i can postpone the eternal truck searching for frame drawing... Damn.

As if I had nothing better to do?
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: -Max Payne- on November 29, 2012, 07:16:47 pm
People will not pay for a game who never works. Always offline, or totally buged. Call this game " foffline"...
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Mike Crosser on November 29, 2012, 07:31:37 pm
foffline
Wow that's one of the most original and never before used jokes ever!
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Horatio on November 29, 2012, 07:48:05 pm
Bitch please. You don't know FOnline servers being always offline.

I would donate again. The same sum as last time. For a favour. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
Damn it, devs, why is it so difficult, are you trolling me?
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Bartosz on November 29, 2012, 08:54:18 pm
Just being lazy, sorry ;) Will post summary later on this evening.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Bartosz on November 30, 2012, 09:55:24 pm
Alright, I've summed it up

Our current balance is 28.5e, with the last payment being issued 2012-11-08.

That means I haven't yet sold my kidney, but of course we could use some income, next payment will have to be processed soon - in a week, or so (another 49e).
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Gimper on December 01, 2012, 09:03:03 am
Alright, I've summed it up

Our current balance is 28.5e, with the last payment being issued 2012-11-08.

That means I haven't yet sold my kidney, but of course we could use some income, next payment will have to be processed soon - in a week, or so (another 49e).
Hmm... 49 euros huh... Well I do indeed enjoy Playing Fonline and I would indeed hate to see it get shut off for any time... So hmm we'll see what happens tomorrow. 64 bucks, hmm.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: davrot on December 01, 2012, 12:08:23 pm
Are there any cheaper options? I think it's a bit too much to rent such a server when only 200 people play.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: DocAN. on December 02, 2012, 03:17:33 am
It is not if the server runs on good CPU.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Beret on December 02, 2012, 12:58:13 pm
polish beer is better, and chicks.
Yep, that true ::)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Horatio on December 02, 2012, 02:12:45 pm
Devs, how do you finance the server, btw? Every Rotator throws some money in the pot or everyone pays full sum for a month and gives the privilege to pay next month to another?

And is there a way to be a subscription sponsor with privileges, like "2238 fan" in red letters under the nick? Or single items of obsessions, perhaps?
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Bego on December 02, 2012, 04:05:48 pm
I believe Rotators don't pay for the server, players do by donating money. In the next few days I'll do some online purchases and I'll make sure to put some extra money on the bank account so I could donate, it's been a while since I did it last time.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lexx on December 02, 2012, 04:27:40 pm
Some of us did pay already for the server, but it is true that the most money comes from donations.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: FrankenStone on December 02, 2012, 11:44:06 pm
starring at the world through my rearview , i dont mind if the server get shut down lol , its not even worth to play nowadays there are better things to do in life , all what devs have done is too make this game more time eating , last season was fine for players who doesnt have that much time to lvl multi quadriple alts for everything , u even get rich with hunting this season is like eeeeeeh , ill better get a t shirt with the line don´t call me bitch ;D ... anyway fallout is fallout and i luv it , so atleast i hope that this trollgame will survive because it have some shinin sites ^^
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: The DUDE on December 05, 2012, 03:01:37 am
for those of you whining about not having a credit card, you can get a pre-paid card from wal-mart or somewhere that is your region equivalent and "load" money onto it and it acts the same as credit/debit.......no bank account/credit card/credit history or anything of that nature required.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Hololasima on December 05, 2012, 10:17:26 am
Oh my god, this is not some america yankee donkeyy, we are from post apocaliptic EAST in fucking europe, understand blyad???
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Wichura on December 05, 2012, 10:38:18 am
Yeah, we sleep on trees, hunt mammoths and ride wolves. Roar! Ook, ook!


PayPal can be used to donate, it's free (well, kinda), comfortable and fast, also doesn't require credit card.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: likeyoucare on December 08, 2012, 02:10:04 am
"I would donate but i dont have credit card" hahah...
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: TKs-KaBoom on December 08, 2012, 07:18:22 am
I'd donate but I don't want to encourage this nonsense.... Kate is Preggers!
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Dark. on February 14, 2013, 01:39:38 pm
Just donated a few of euros. Keep doing good work with updates.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: JovankaB on February 14, 2013, 01:46:34 pm
Thanks Dark..
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: delphius on February 18, 2013, 09:00:41 pm
I need a job. As soon as i get some donations, i'll forward a little to fonline. It's been a while since i played my concertina out on the street... Good luck with all these whiney haters. I am an immense failure in this game and in many aspects of real life, but I don't blame the developers or complain to them about it. I DO, however,  blame the developers of my real life 8) When I get sick of it I go bask in the radiation of solo Fallout.

p.s. this will be my 2nd donation, and i play a lot less than you whiners.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: dimon84s on February 22, 2013, 04:00:18 am
this WONDERFUL game MUST to be..i will donation
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: AtomicWrangler on February 22, 2013, 04:38:18 pm
however,  blame the developers of my real life 8)
:D
You are not "developer" of your own Real Life? Hmh....sounds strange to me...

Anyway...donated 500 CZK
Keep up the good work
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: JovankaB on February 22, 2013, 05:10:45 pm
:D
You are not "developer" of your own Real Life? Hmh....sounds strange to me...

Anyway...donated 500 CZK
Keep up the good work

Thanks a lot.

Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: dskpnk on April 11, 2013, 12:43:26 pm
I donated lot before, with the actual situation , i am sorry but i will no paid for an empty server, silent and deaf devs !

What to do for players ? i think you know, all old players make their own suggestions, look at the ones coming more (lvl cap/better stuff/feature for economy/rp/pver)

lvl caps try 32 ? Why increasing lvl cap will save 2238 ? Longer XPing, ability to make ur pvper a crafter or trader (so less alt), longer fight, so no frustation dying one shot and fast relog pshyco tank <= absolutely easy
 
Better stuff ? Add rare bp for BA and top weapons, i played for 4 year, i am so bored of avenger/RL/sniper (cause actualy those are the only weapon used) <= nothing hard just create new blueprints

Better TC ? Give more advantage of TC, +25% price to trader, +50% ressources gathering (for town with mine) + add some farmable (junk farmable like TLA using this smart cursor for example) to towns (maybe more player will stand in towns !) + -50% to craft cooldown. <= don't sounds hard to do ?

Apply same thing to small locations (mariposa/v15/junkyard/tobaco farm/golgotha/themepark/waterworks) <= copy/past TC system to those location sounds easy too.

And maybe more interaction between players traveling WM (just increase chance to get into player encounter)

Make quest ! Stupid and simple one, but enought to gives something to non pvp players (like craft/chop/gather/speak to/kill...) <= sound easy to copy/paste some sutpid quest in all towns

Good dungeon quest copy/paste glow and put muties in, or vault fulls of deathclaw/raiders/enclave and give hig rewards

Ok with that we have new feature, new builds challenge, new weapons to dicover, new quest to do and better interest to make TC !

All suggestion sounds easy to make (but i am not dev so ...)

You have one mouth  :-*

Something need to be done one 2238, busy dev ? Try to recrut new ones ? BUT MAKE SOMETHING !

Cause u know when u see 80 players, it mean 15 off, 20 dual log, 15 faping in ncr, 10 bluesuit dying from ants, 10 hiding in base cause they don t have 2x more to swarm and 10 looking for desesperaly for APA blueprint !

Save 2238 => http://fodev.net/forum/index.php/topic,28804.0.html
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Gimper on April 15, 2013, 04:01:48 am
Well, I for one like the server empty. Its fun to play with few interruptions and if I need human interactions, there are still idlers in NCR. Plus, believe it or not, I strongly support the new updates. +1 for better mining! Donated 10 bucks, enjoy the cheap booze.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: MRtrader on April 15, 2013, 08:24:08 am
Well, I for one like the server empty. Its fun to play with few interruptions and if I need human interactions, there are still idlers in NCR. Plus, believe it or not, I strongly support the new updates. +1 for better mining! Donated 10 bucks, enjoy the cheap booze.
Well said and it was pretty crowed in NCR to boot yesterday.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: JovankaB on April 15, 2013, 09:20:24 am
Well, I for one like the server empty. Its fun to play with few interruptions and if I need human interactions, there are still idlers in NCR. Plus, believe it or not, I strongly support the new updates. +1 for better mining! Donated 10 bucks, enjoy the cheap booze.

Thanks a lot Gimper.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Mayck on April 15, 2013, 11:24:08 am
Thanks Gimper.

PS: I cleaned up the thread a bit. (There are other threads for discussing TLA mk2 and dying server.)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Senocular on April 15, 2013, 11:42:33 am
I also donated 10$, thanks to Rotators! ;)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Mayck on April 15, 2013, 09:52:32 pm
I also donated 10$, thanks to Rotators! ;)
Thanks Senocular, we appreciate it.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: MRtrader on April 16, 2013, 03:12:20 pm
Donated!  ;D  i really like the containers that were added recently!

Edit: Btw im encountering more new players ingame and on forum recently
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: JovankaB on April 16, 2013, 03:43:46 pm
Donated!  ;D  i really like the containers that were added recently!

Edit: Btw im encountering more new players ingame and on forum recently

Thanks a lot MR.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: 700noob007 on April 18, 2013, 01:29:48 am
I get paid Friday are donations always open? A wipe wouldn't be so bad now will it?
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: JovankaB on April 18, 2013, 01:56:15 am
They are always open. Personally I think a wipe would be bad at least until getting blueprints is reworked. In my opinion we shouldn't make people farm them again the way they are farmed now (I mean the encounter boxes). Some people, surprisingly, seem to enjoy it but I think that most people didn't.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Vile on April 19, 2013, 02:40:09 am
They are always open. Personally I think a wipe would be bad at least until getting blueprints is reworked. In my opinion we shouldn't make people farm them again the way they are farmed now (I mean the encounter boxes). Some people, surprisingly, seem to enjoy it but I think that most people didn't.

That realization dawned quite early on you.

Yes there are such people, they are called autistic masochists in vernacular.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Roachor on April 19, 2013, 05:06:45 am
That realization dawned quite early on you.

Yes there are such people, they are called autistic masochists in vernacular.

You've pinpointed ther target demographic 2238 is designed to please. See requests for perma death and diminishing xp for details.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lexx on April 19, 2013, 05:18:25 am
The diminishing xp-system was never finished, btw. The original idea was that the xp rate is resetting after x time. Though I do not know why it wasn't finished, as I was very inactive at this time.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Roachor on April 19, 2013, 05:45:16 pm
The diminishing xp-system was never finished, btw. The original idea was that the xp rate is resetting after x time. Though I do not know why it wasn't finished, as I was very inactive at this time.

I was referring to forum members begging for "moar harsh" gameplay elements that are completely retarded and have never been implemented in a successful game. The fact diminishing xp was considered when grinding serves no purpose just goes to show how mindless the development process is.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Alvarez on May 21, 2013, 07:27:41 am
Can we get skins, SPECIAL and SP reassignment, as well as implementation of user content for our donation?
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Wipe on May 21, 2013, 07:41:57 am
It was said multiple times, but let's say it again - no, donations are just to keep the server running, and they are not going to be connected with ingame-world in any way
Even if we skip legal issues (which ARE most important), i - as a player - wouldn't want to see this game become pay-to-win. And we all know SPECIAL enough to say that donation-based-boost would affect it, a lot.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Alvarez on May 21, 2013, 12:35:21 pm
I just want to point it out, since recently the other server seems not to have this issue and offer the aforementioned services with a price list.
And this makes me raise my brow.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lexx on May 21, 2013, 02:30:10 pm
Unlikely, that Bethesda would do something against it. Still, buying boosts with real money is really bad style, imo.

About content: This would take the quality control out of our hands, therefore no. Besides... Would you really want to pay for your stuff to be implemented?
How about this: You write a design document and we read over it. If we agree that it is cool, you make it and we implement it. No money involved.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Alvarez on May 21, 2013, 03:09:32 pm
OK, so this is what i wanted to say, Lexx.

I don't think cosmetic extras like skins are boosts, as well as rearranging skillpoints and SPECIAL are breaking the game.
Breaking the game will start when SidleJinks starts to sell caps and equipment for money, like in WoW. But for now he seems the lone sponsor of the server and i guess he needs money.

I honestly don't know how much money he actually uses for server and how much for beer. I guess it's on his discretion, as well as you guys.

The fact is, i rather BUY myself a skin than camp in NCR for GM to appear and then beg (!) him for it, a small piece of scenery in base for RP or a item for completion of a quest and in most cases i WILL lose my dignity but get nothing in return.
"Please give me a skin. Please implement a suggestion. Please tell me where to search for vehicle special encounters." Please please please.
And GMs aren't wishing fulfilling fairies, it's just impossible by any other means.

This begging is so degrading and i don't think i will ever speak to GM about any "small favours.", i just get a No or a critical hit for 999999 HP.
If SidleJinks is willing to implement, let's say a new vehicle for 100 bucks i donate for his server, okay. I don't have to be obsessed about it.
And, there is a good chance that i will get in posession of that vehicle, too, instead of wandering fruitlessly for months around the wasteland searching it.

As for implementation of things - i only can do what i can with graphics - mod scenery and items. For now.
I don't even know what i can offer atm, just some animation replacements i did for fun, developer won't find them fallout-ish anyway.

Maybe later when i get my mapping, drawing, scripting skills up to date.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: DeputyDope on May 21, 2013, 08:08:54 pm
...

because you totally need to beg for something that needs to be in-game by default.(skins)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Cyber Jesus on May 21, 2013, 09:24:00 pm
you make it and we implement it.
Sounds easy
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: teyrnlogainn on May 27, 2013, 07:42:28 am
i would love to donate alot of money in this game, if theres good australians servers to play on. We get very high ping playing here :(
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: sHoW. on May 27, 2013, 10:05:33 am
Why there isnt any GM recruit? Or for developer team? Only one who is visible is Jovanka and Fear thats all..

Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: xsarq on May 27, 2013, 10:49:50 am
They are working in game not in forum.

Wire is online like 16 hours a day.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: sHoW. on May 27, 2013, 11:08:57 am
They are working in game not in forum.

Wire is online like 16 hours a day.

Tell me how you know that..
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Kelin on May 27, 2013, 11:23:48 am
Fear is a GM? He is not mentioned in any documents nor on wiki.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Mike Crosser on May 27, 2013, 11:31:39 am
Fear is a GM? He is not mentioned in any documents nor on wiki.
Afaik fear is a moderator with "benefits" or smth like that.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Kelin on May 27, 2013, 11:32:57 am
...which basically means if you're in trouble he won't help you  :D
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: coke n fries on June 05, 2013, 09:00:39 pm
 8)  8)    8)

Wuts up devs and players love u all check it out devs I get an 800$$$$ check around the 28th this month I will donate around 200 US $ if I can THANKS for everything I know this game will thrive soon enough :)



Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Senocular on June 05, 2013, 09:31:06 pm
8)  8)    8)

Wuts up devs and players love u all check it out devs I get an 800$$$$ check around the 28th this month I will donate around 200 US $ if I can THANKS for everything I know this game will thrive soon enough :)
You get 800$ welfare check and donate 1/4 to a dying project? :D
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: vedaras on June 05, 2013, 11:28:36 pm
8)  8)    8)

Wuts up devs and players love u all check it out devs I get an 800$$$$ check around the 28th this month I will donate around 200 US $ if I can THANKS for everything I know this game will thrive soon enough :)

the thriving of the game doesnt depend on the money, it thrives from fresh good ideas, that increases gameplay, adds variety to a roleplaying game, adds role you know, gives to game what you expect from it, and i dont remember anything such type from like 2010-2011, so in my opinion this game wont thrive anytime soon. it has just became wasteland itself, literally.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: teyrnlogainn on June 06, 2013, 10:18:29 am
the thriving of the game doesnt depend on the money, it thrives from fresh good ideas, that increases gameplay, adds variety to a roleplaying game, adds role you know, gives to game what you expect from it, and i dont remember anything such type from like 2010-2011, so in my opinion this game wont thrive anytime soon. it has just became wasteland itself, literally.
Sigh that is sadly true.On the brightside fonline tla looks really promising, now it has gone international i see around 500 players on peak usually, very fun! and why is it fun? its because the devs take time and listen to the players ideas. simple really. the dev helped me solve a problem and that was it! done :)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: coke n fries on June 06, 2013, 11:07:12 pm
You get 800$ welfare check and donate 1/4 to a dying project? :D


FUCK YEAH
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: S.T.A.L.K.E.R on June 10, 2013, 03:48:21 pm
Still accepting donation?

I think I know someone who will donate
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lexx on June 10, 2013, 04:21:44 pm
Yeah, but it won't change our current plans. ;)
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Senocular on June 10, 2013, 04:46:12 pm
Yeah, but it won't change our current plans. ;)
Lexx, don't forget to pack your toothbrush. I heard prices are crazy in Acapulco. :D
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: falloutdude on June 10, 2013, 04:48:34 pm
any money donated from here on in will be used by the devs for cheap wine and cheap hookers.  ;D
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Lexx on June 10, 2013, 05:33:54 pm
Nah, it will be used for the new sdk board.
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: S.T.A.L.K.E.R on June 11, 2013, 02:54:44 am
Yeah, but it won't change our current plans. ;)
So it wont keep current 2238 up? what a shame :/
Title: Re: Donations needed
Post by: Deagonx on June 21, 2013, 03:24:06 pm
After seeing the way people responded in this thread, it is no wonder the devs decided to shut down.