Aug 25, 2011, 04:48 PM
Personally I'd love to see a quarterly expiration on the slots, but I'm not sure if there aren't any legal concerns when you take away reserve slots from people that weren't supposed to expire.
The servers can't survive monetarily with the way its set up now. Anyone that wants a reserve slot can just donate $5 and not give a shit after that, and that's part of the problem. I'm sure there's a surplus of people who have donated 5 dollars two years ago for their slot and nothing after that eating up the same slots as people who regularly donate and care about the server further than their 5 dollar minimum.
Just watching the donation meter on the front page, it's pretty obvious that the server barely breaks even; or actually costs hundreds of dollars a month to maintain.
I know DF said nothing would change when he handed the servers over to Neph, but if there's any time to get this issue solved, it would be now, while in the early stages of the new ownership.
The servers can't survive monetarily with the way its set up now. Anyone that wants a reserve slot can just donate $5 and not give a shit after that, and that's part of the problem. I'm sure there's a surplus of people who have donated 5 dollars two years ago for their slot and nothing after that eating up the same slots as people who regularly donate and care about the server further than their 5 dollar minimum.
Just watching the donation meter on the front page, it's pretty obvious that the server barely breaks even; or actually costs hundreds of dollars a month to maintain.
I know DF said nothing would change when he handed the servers over to Neph, but if there's any time to get this issue solved, it would be now, while in the early stages of the new ownership.
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