You gotta admit he's a great coder. And since he's taken the time to create good metamod plugins which greatly enhance his server he deserves to benefit from it. I do think its kinda lame that he's charging people for reserved slots. I mean Flayra created this wonderful mod FREE of charge. Not that he really has an option. But he still spent months creating all the code for it to run sweet. And voogru gets to come along and code up a few dll's and start making money off a pair of servers that hes running. I hope a talented coder creates better plugins than he's created and distributes them freely. I probably won't even use them but I really don't think people should be making money on this mod. Donate to Flayra and his team YES! Why don't you ask for donations to keep your server running... Whats your next step Voogru, monthly subscription to your servers?
People donate without even asking for a slot.. Do you have any idea how much it costs to run a server? I'd charge for an open slot on my server if I had one that was great like voogs.. And there are SO many other servers out there that charge for reserved slots. But obviously you don't pay $600+ a month to run servers...
<!--QuoteBegin--Mayhem+Feb 2 2003, 03:25 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mayhem @ Feb 2 2003, 03:25 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> You gotta admit he's a great coder. And since he's taken the time to create good metamod plugins which greatly enhance his server he deserves to benefit from it. I do think its kinda lame that he's charging people for reserved slots. I mean Flayra created this wonderful mod FREE of charge. Not that he really has an option. But he still spent months creating all the code for it to run sweet. And voogru gets to come along and code up a few dll's and start making money off a pair of servers that hes running. I hope a talented coder creates better plugins than he's created and distributes them freely. I probably won't even use them but I really don't think people should be making money on this mod. Donate to Flayra and his team YES! Why don't you ask for donations to keep your server running... Whats your next step Voogru, monthly subscription to your servers? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Please keep in mind Flayra is CHARGING $25 for a ICON to place by your name... AN ICON. Were you aware of this? I have expressed my opinions about that icon in a previous thread, therefor will not do so here.
BTW - there is NOTHING wrong with what either of them are doing. If people want to open up their wallets, and help out others, GREAT! MORE THE MERRIER!
One final point - our users are not paying for 'plugins' as you have indicated. They're paying to have the chance to PLAY. Big difference my friend. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> I encourage you to finish your plugins for release, when you get tired of people stealing your work; and claiming they did it them selves, please come back here and let us know.
Almost forgot - donations are NOT to help keep server running. I pay for it, ALL OF IT. I do not need money, I have plenty. Donations go directly to voogru, he deserves it. I'm 40, earn more money per hour then most in America earn in a month; it's the least I could do to support someone talented, and has a bright future ahead of him. Who knows, I might consider doing same for Flayra one day; we'll see.
You guys proved voogru's entire point..this thread started with a guy mentioning how great NSAdmin is, which it is..it's absolutely great, and you guys make it a flamewar about how he should release it and how he's making money from it.
Did you guys know the USERS came up with this idea? To donate to him for his work? And that he said well that's so nice of you guys, we'll add reserved slots. And no, reserved slots do not make sure you'll never get in, there's 2 servers, 1 with reserved slots which ONLY kick in if it's full and someone's trying to join that has donated.
I'm honoured to play on voogru's server, and sometimes, sometimes I'm glad I don't have to deal with you guys on other servers.
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Please keep in mind Flayra is CHARGING $25 for a ICON to place by your name... AN ICON. Were you aware of this? I have expressed my opinions about that icon in a previous thread, therefor will not do so here.
BTW - there is NOTHING wrong with what either of them are doing. If people want to open up their wallets, and help out others, GREAT! MORE THE MERRIER!
One final point - our users are not paying for 'plugins' as you have indicated. They're paying to have the chance to PLAY. Big difference my friend. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> I encourage you to finish your plugins for release, when you get tired of people stealing your work; and claiming they did it them selves, please come back here and let us know.
Almost forgot - donations are NOT to help keep server running. I pay for it, ALL OF IT. I do not need money, I have plenty. Donations go directly to voogru, he deserves it. I'm 40, earn more money per hour then most in America earn in a month; it's the least I could do to support someone talented, and has a bright future ahead of him. Who knows, I might consider doing same for Flayra one day; we'll see.
Did you guys know the USERS came up with this idea? To donate to him for his work? And that he said well that's so nice of you guys, we'll add reserved slots.
And no, reserved slots do not make sure you'll never get in, there's 2 servers, 1 with reserved slots which ONLY kick in if it's full and someone's trying to join that has donated.
I'm honoured to play on voogru's server, and sometimes, sometimes I'm glad I don't have to deal with you guys on other servers.