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| The Future of Chasm; Its in the community's hands | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 9 2016, 07:25 PM (15 Views) | |
| Admin Nova | Mar 9 2016, 07:25 PM Post #1 |
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Greetings this is an open letter to the Chasm community, Well if your reading this it means you have already explored Chasm for the very first time or your back from the old days and your interested and want to see whats going on either way welcome. The main focus of this thread will be to write about one of the most unique features of Chasm to date that separates it from almost every other server around can you guess what it is? Is it our dedicated staff? Is it our amazing player base? Is it our custom client client that collects all your precious information and then sells it to the highest bidder (I am joking of course don't freak out!) If you have not already guess it, it's none of the above what makes us unique is that we are a non-profit server which is something rare now days. Now some of you might be asking wait how are you non profit there is a shop on the website. That's a good point here is the answer the staff does not see a single penny of the money it goes to hiring freelancers. Now some of you might be asking why does Chasm need freelancers? The answer is simple currently it is just me I am the entire staff, I do not have the time nor the skill to run a server such as Chasm all by myself as it is a hobby for me, hiring freelancers allows me to implement the staffs and the communities ideas for Chasm to make the server better and to have more frequent updates. I personally have already invested some of my own money for new features and bug fixes. So ultimately the fate of the server and how fast updates are applied, bugs are fixed, and your ideas implemented is solely in your hands. Now this has potential to change if I am able to recruit a full team of programmers, scripters, spriters, and mappers technically there would most likely be no more use for a shop, but until that time once again the fate of Chasm is in your hands. I will now does a short Q&A for the most common questions (or those to lazy to read the whole thing) 1. You say the server is no profit yet you have a shop? As I addressed in the post above the shop is necessary to hire freelancers to implement new parts to the map, bug fixes, ideas related to programming both the staffs and the communities. The staff will never see a penny of the money. Now if a time comes when the Staff is not just made up of me and the server is able to recruit programmers, spriters, scripters, and mappers free of charge the shop will of course be removed, unless you the community wish it to stay. 2. So those who donate through the shop will have an advantage over those who don't? Absolutely not! Donating through the shop simply gets you the following, a premium account which gains you accesses to premium only outfits, premium only hunting areas, and early access to some new areas and beta features if there are any available at the time. While some might see this as an advantage it really is not. All items are attainable in game by anyone one free or premium! Premium level players will not level faster then free players. It will be as balanced as possible. Now once again if I am able to recruit an entire staff like I mentioned in the first Q&A the shop will most likely go away and then everyone can have premium outfits for free! 3. You say the staff will never spend the money on anything other then freelancers but how can we trust you? We will most likely use Bitcoin as it will allow everyone to see where the money is going. Also we will use Pay Pal for those who cannot use bitcoin and if you doubt the money is going anywhere else other then freelancers I will personally open the accounting books and post a spreadsheet for all to see along with screenshots. Also if there is further doubt I will try and get the freelancer to comment on the forums as to what they did and how much they themselves where paid. 4. Will the money go towards anything else? Well there may be times when there is some money available and we will ask the community whether they would like to see the money go to freelancers to implement new features or if they would rather see it go towards advertisements on places such as otservlist.org to attract more players. These are the most common questions I could think of at the moment if you have a question that were not answered here feel free to post and I will answer it. Once again the future of the server and the updates it receives and the time in which those updates are received are up to you the community as once again this is just a hobby of mine and I do not wish to make any money off of it as well as the fact that I am limited in time and skills in certain areas. Regards, Admin Nova Edited by Admin Nova, Mar 9 2016, 07:32 PM.
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