I've already made a hefty donation, but I'm going to up the ante a bit here.
I'm going to match donations in $100 increments for the next two weeks or until the target amount has been reached, which ever comes first. So if you donate $100 I'll donate $100, if 4 ppl donate $25 each, I'll donate $100, if you donate $200, I'll donate $200, etc etc....
This doesn't include Gaeorns $1000 donation he's promised! Sorry Gaeorn, I make good money, but even this is going to strain my budget a bit depending on how much this encourages others to donate. I think it's worth it though or I wouldn't make the offer.
This matching program is effective today. I'll match all donations made on 8-30-2010 to 9-13-2010 to help get the servers we need.
I'm hoping this will encourage the rest of you to dig deep and make a donation. Also, depending on the response this generates, I might extend the offer. This is your chance to make a difference folks. Time to put up.
I'm pretty sure donations go to
cavedude00@gmail.com on paypal.com, I'll let Gaeorn chime in here to confirm that. At least, that is where my last donation went to.
And for those of you making alternate suggestions on hardware, I'm sure the intent is good, but like Gaeorn said, they discussed it quite a bit, it's been decided already. I've looked at the list of hardware and it's a very solid and expandable setup and I know what I'm talking about as I've spent many years in IT, from a basic tech when i started out up to managing an 800 workstation call center (the IT portion of it, not the center itself). Even though I don't do that work anymore, to stressful.
Those of you complaining about down time, start contributing to the code base or make a donation to get the hardware needed, either that or stop your whining. All you are doing is discouraging those folks who are putting a lot of their own personal time and finances into a project that you are deriving free entertainment from. Try doing something about it instead of talking about it. ie donate code, money, or constructive bug reports that helps the coders.
Personally, I highly appreciate all the people who have put a lot of work into making eqemulator what it is today. Thank you, All of you.
Ok, off to grab a bite to eat then back to Mafia II. (whimper)
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