Donation For In-game Status Poll
Flayra
Game Director, Unknown Worlds EntertainmentSan Francisco Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 3Super Administrators, NS2 Developer, Subnautica Developer
Game Director, Unknown Worlds EntertainmentSan Francisco Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 3Super Administrators, NS2 Developer, Subnautica Developer
Various ranking people have an icon next to their name in NS. Playtesters have an orange skulk icon, developers have a blue TSA logo, NS Guides have the yellow heavy marine and server ops have a green server icon on their own server (see the screenshot below).
Would you donate around $20-30 (probably via Paypal), if it meant you got a special "NS supporter" icon next to your name? This donation would go towards ongoing development of NS and towards expenses in running this web site. Mostly though, it would go to paying my own bills to allow NS development to continue in a major (as opposed to a part-time) fashion.
Would you donate around $20-30 (probably via Paypal), if it meant you got a special "NS supporter" icon next to your name? This donation would go towards ongoing development of NS and towards expenses in running this web site. Mostly though, it would go to paying my own bills to allow NS development to continue in a major (as opposed to a part-time) fashion.
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After actually looking at the answers besides "Yes", I'm shocked anybody would think this is selling out. You don't want to contribute, fine.. don't. I plan on using the little icon to A) confuse Noobs into thinking I'm part of the NS team <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> and B) quickly identifying people who are dedicated to NS and therefore hopefully have some clue what they're doing. Then proceeding to team up with those people and wreak horrible destruction on our enemies.
*Waves a fist-full of bills screaming "<i>TAKE MY MONEY AWAY!!</i>"*
<--- is also confused as to why when "fist full" is spelled as one word, it comes out as "fiSUYFll"
the Desert Crisis Mod does a smiliar thing in granting special "easter egg heads" (the mod has configurable facial/head features) for people who make a donation. I think Sven Coop gives you something as well. Giving boons for supporting a mod is always a good thing, as long as it only gives the donator "cool" points and not special stuff no one else has. Go for it.
As long as the 'symbols' do NOT convey ANY sort of 'in-game' bonus, I will be okay with it.
Secondly, how do you plan to implement this?
Thirdly, far better than a one-time $20-30, is a one-month donater badge for $10.
This is because
A) $10 seems like less than half $20 (For some reason), so you'd get more donaters,
B) Anyone who donates just for the badge doesn't get a continual 'free lunch',
C) You get far, far more money in the long run with small, continuous payments than larger, one time payments,
D) It would be a (more) continuous and (more) reliable form of income, depending less on new-player turnover.
NS at $20 is a bargin!
Just curious...
Now.... if you make the alien buildings (offensechamber,defense,movement,sensory,resourcetower,hive) have the euser1 point to who built it... ill donate for SURE since i get to dump my crappy method to detect who owns what. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Not like it would change gameplay at all.
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What would be even better, is that there were around 10 different icons, and if you bought one, your icon increased "level" do to the amount of time playing NS or kills or something like that.
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I don't suppose I can still get in on this "developer" scam can I Flayra?
Now.... if you make the alien buildings (offensechamber,defense,movement,sensory,resourcetower,hive) have the euser1 point to who built it... ill donate for SURE since i get to dump my crappy method to detect who owns what. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Not like it would change gameplay at all.
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uh wtf are you talking about
i said games usally cost $50+
Flayra is only asking for a messly $20
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yea, well you could still donate 20-30, but if you donate more than 50 you get your own custom icon. Just an idea.
<a href='http://www.svencoop.com/support.php' target='_blank'>http://www.svencoop.com/support.php</a>
Donations have worked very well for us although we decided to keep the cost to people as low as possible ($6 gets you everything). People did have a lot of worries about it when we first announced the idea but we haven't had any problems so far.
Mostly the money has been used on our vBulletin board, so the community do get something out of it.
NS is great, best game I played in 2002, and so far the only PC game I've played in 2003. You definatly deserve some dough for your work...
But yes, I would donate after I get a job of my own.
You could make it so that if you donate a large sum(50$? 75$?), you can get a custom icon hand made by one of the devs just for you! Shouldn't take much time to make such an icon either.
Ooh! Games won! That would be a very cool, simple stat to keep track of! I would personally like that alot - you pay $20 and you get an icon that somehow shows the number of games you have been on the winning team for. Basically just keep track of how much time you've been on that team, and if its >90% of the total round time (to protect from retrying), and your team <i>wins</i>, you get your "Wins Statistic" increased, for all to see! Now that I think about it, you might have to make it have a minimum player count, too, for when the match ends. Like only games with 12 or more players get a score increase. AHH, whatever - just an idea that I thought would encourage people to buy more <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
I also think that any server operators that donate should get access to beta releases. I wanna play with the latest fixes! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Now theres an idea!
I disagree with that entirely.
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Care to elaborate?
i would pay a 20-30 1 time donation to keep this mod alive in hopes that they will tighten the code ,
and keep on devolping this great mod ,,, however if you are looking for that everquest pay to play kinda thing ill go back to unreal torny 2003 , thats it , oh and to all you comm out ther that just have to com but leave the first few mins of the game you can bite my @##,
aslo i have played witha bunch of well toghter guys who had it all but NO ONE WANTED TO COMM they tryied to doitall but no comm lead these guys to there death heheh duh . thats what i get for playing on a public server
Send $20-$30 to keep it going? Where do I sign?