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BlackIntel => General discussion => Topic started by: EvilWhiteDragon on March 15, 2009, 01:52:31 am

Title: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on March 15, 2009, 01:52:31 am
We're considering to host more games, like Team Fortress 2 or Counterstrike: source, but, in order to do so we need donations. So we would appreciate it if you would donate a little amount. A donation can be made by various means. You could choose a bank transfe, or use paypal. If you want to do a bank transfer then I'll give you the needed details after a pm, otherwise you should be able to find everything on our frontpage. The paypal adress is jorik.modderkolk@planet.nl.
We would espacially appreciate the donation as we want to expand our base operation to for ex. TF2 or CS:S.
As you might have noticed we've just launched our UT3 server. That seems to work, but we've noticed that a lot of (new) members can be gained in CS:S or TF2, so we would like your support in this.
All the money we'll get we'll invest in a quadcore CPU for the server. This way we can expand the amount of servers we're running. If we don't get enough donations to upgrade the CPU (and or HDD) then we'll put the donations to good use in keeping the server running.
The month to month running costs are 55 euro's ech month, so we really would like it if you would donate something.
Even 5 euros would be of great use here at BlackIntel!
Thanks for your support!
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: dhdc on March 15, 2009, 03:20:40 am
can ya let us know when ya plan on upgrading the cpu and i will try and donate some towards the cost as its a onw of thing but the regualar donation i will try but i have my driving stuff to pay for atm and i dont have a job
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on March 15, 2009, 03:36:02 am
well, as soon as we get more donations we can do this. ATM we're not entirely sure whether it'll work, but doantions would be a obvious way of stating that you like the idea.
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: MacKinsey on March 15, 2009, 10:13:29 am
I would like to donate, but my mom doesnt allow me to do that.
Thanks to the German law i am not allowed to create a PayPal Account without a yes of my parents.
International Donations arent allowed too, as far as i know.
And sending money with the post isnt that good, you hear very often that they take the money out and such things like that.
 :'( :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on March 15, 2009, 01:27:02 pm
I would like to donate, but my mom doesnt allow me to do that.
Thanks to the German law i am not allowed to create a PayPal Account without a yes of my parents.
International Donations arent allowed too, as far as i know.
And sending money with the post isnt that good, you hear very often that they take the money out and such things like that.
 :'( :'( :'( :'(
S0megeeza send me 70 euros once by snailmail. That worked :P. Anyway, perhaps that your parents would allow a banktransfer? Coz if so, I can give you the details you'll need. That is known to be secure so that shouldn't be a problem, and doesn't cost anything extra when done inside the EU.
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: Trace on March 15, 2009, 06:07:20 pm
I think mail would work fine as long as you only use paper money.
I will see how much i can miss when i got paid and stufi is in.
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: LeeumDee on March 16, 2009, 01:31:39 pm
At the moment I'm unemployed, and trying to keep a house running. (not to mention shortly upping sticks and moving out of the area completely) I do of course appreciate the servers, the games, the things you guys do, the money you guys pay to keep the servers and this community alive. But my standing right now I'm not able to donate at all.

When my situation changes, i will donate without a second thought.
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on March 16, 2009, 01:48:42 pm
At the moment I'm unemployed, and trying to keep a house running. (not to mention shortly upping sticks and moving out of the area completely) I do of course appreciate the servers, the games, the things you guys do, the money you guys pay to keep the servers and this community alive. But my standing right now I'm not able to donate at all.

When my situation changes, i will donate without a second thought.
Well, then it is obvious. You have to set priorities, and in your case that should be food and a home.
Everyone that can miss a little bit of money (even 5 euros is appreciated!) please donate ;)!
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on March 17, 2009, 01:27:59 pm
bump ^^
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: LeeumDee on March 25, 2009, 08:45:43 pm
You guys received any donations ?
Well Extra donations?
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on March 25, 2009, 11:24:29 pm
No and no.
Why?
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: LeeumDee on March 25, 2009, 11:43:26 pm
Curious.

May be able to donate a small amount in a month or two. I know "every little helps" but donating bugger all, is just ridiculous cause' of paypal fees.
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: Friso1nl on March 26, 2009, 06:57:12 am
I = 100% debts.

But I'll have a look if I can spare some in a month...
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on March 26, 2009, 08:47:05 am
Curious.

May be able to donate a small amount in a month or two. I know "every little helps" but donating bugger all, is just ridiculous cause' of paypal fees.
Mail is an alternative, banktransfer from the UK isn't, because as far as I know then you'll pay about the same fee. But, if you want to donate by banktransfer that's fine by me as well.
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: Trace on March 26, 2009, 05:36:26 pm
I just donated, next plz! ;D
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: Gwynzer on March 26, 2009, 06:24:39 pm
They are getting my normal donation + extra on my "Donation Day".
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on March 26, 2009, 07:12:04 pm
:D which is in 6 days :D
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: Trace on March 26, 2009, 08:07:24 pm
lol
I see € signs in EWD's eyes ;D
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: DKDexter999 on March 26, 2009, 08:28:20 pm
I was thinking of saying something like "EWD has Christmas every month!" :+
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on March 29, 2009, 12:34:13 am
Well, don't forget that I have to pay each month as well. Not that I mind doing that, but only as long I feel backed up by an active community ;)
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on April 03, 2009, 08:01:06 am
People that donated so far:
Trace (a nice amount)
Gwynzer (o.0)
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: Gwynzer on April 03, 2009, 08:05:26 am
what do you mean o.O???

Isn't half a euro enough??? Twat! :P
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on April 03, 2009, 08:13:50 am
what do you mean o.O???

Isn't half a euro enough??? Twat! :P
More like OMGWTFBBQ, I didn't expect that much in one donation :+
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: Gwynzer on April 03, 2009, 08:18:34 am
It's really virtual Monopoly money.
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: dhdc on April 03, 2009, 09:09:19 am
if its monopaly money to u gwyn ill send my details to u and u can up me up with your monoply money
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on April 19, 2009, 09:28:03 pm
Hmm, I've just found out that instead of running break-even (not having to put in extra money besides what we want to donate), we're runnning pretty much below it.

Therefore your donations would be highly appreciated. Even moreso when we do plan to upgrade the server.
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on April 23, 2009, 08:50:20 am
How typical that everyone seems to evade this thread :(
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: Blind3001 on April 23, 2009, 10:47:14 am
Aww, I'd donate, but I'm short on cash.
Only have like 25 euros.
Hmmm, buy a game or donate... decisions decisions.
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: LeeumDee on April 23, 2009, 11:47:56 am
I don't want to press too much into it, or sound like im a whining excuse making asshole.

But im officially in a lot of debt. My incoming money doesn't match all my outgoings. I have accumulated over £1000 in credit charges and it's growing every month when I only pay the minimum charges. Literally every penny i have, goes on a bill right now. Not avoiding the topic, just simply cannot contribute.
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on April 23, 2009, 02:33:44 pm
I don't want to press too much into it, or sound like im a whining excuse making asshole.

But im officially in a lot of debt. My incoming money doesn't match all my outgoings. I have accumulated over £1000 in credit charges and it's growing every month when I only pay the minimum charges. Literally every penny i have, goes on a bill right now. Not avoiding the topic, just simply cannot contribute.
I can understand that there are indeed people that just cannot donate because they really don't have a penny to spare, it just seems odd to me that there are quite a lot of people that don't respond to the topic at all.
I won't force anyone to donate, so I wouldn't mind if someone just said something like: "Look guys nice of you to do this, but I just don't wnat to donate." Ofcourse  I would prefer it to see him giving a reason (being it personal finance issues or problems/ things he doesn't agree with at blackintel).
This way we can at least try to improve user experiance. If that is one of the causes ofcourse, we can't do much about personal finance problems, unfortunately.
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: Friso1nl on April 23, 2009, 04:24:48 pm
Got no money, getting a job next week (I hope) so I might have some money after that... even though I want to buy way to much.
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: Blind3001 on May 05, 2009, 08:07:02 pm
(http://i42.tinypic.com/2hzlbf8.jpg)
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on May 06, 2009, 09:18:03 am
(http://i42.tinypic.com/2hzlbf8.jpg)
Thanks!

We appreciate it_VERY_ much!
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: Gwynzer on May 06, 2009, 09:32:40 am
As I keep telling him :D

On the subject, how much is raised, and how much to go for that hardware upgrade?
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on May 06, 2009, 09:34:41 am
As I keep telling him :D

On the subject, how much is raised, and how much to go for that hardware upgrade?
Currently we have a "profit" of about 80 euros. Since we're a non-profit organization, we now have 80 euros to spend on upgrades ;)
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: dhdc on May 06, 2009, 04:46:18 pm
why dont you say a upgrade for server managment (aka taking the admins for a pint)
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on May 07, 2009, 11:59:46 am
why dont you say a upgrade for server managment (aka taking the admins for a pint)
Because we can pay for that ourselfs? And we think that's not what you (the people that donated) meant to donate this money for.
We need about 40 euros more for the CPU upgrade. With the quadcore (+the extra harddrives we donate ourself) we would be able to either run more servers, or facilitate more players on our current servers.
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on May 13, 2009, 07:46:38 am
Bump!

With 20 euros more, I'll pay the rest of what we need. Then we can *possibily* install the "new" harddrives and a new CPU in our server around the 24th of may.
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: Gwynzer on May 13, 2009, 07:51:39 am
With 20 euros more, I'll pay the rest of what we need. Then we can *possibily* install the "new" harddrives and a new CPU in our server around the 24th of may.

Then you'll get it later today :D
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: Blind3001 on May 13, 2009, 10:36:16 am
Does this mean something actually happens with my money? :O
Icanhaswebspace?
also, I might donate some more in a month or two :D
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on May 13, 2009, 11:34:54 am
Does this mean something actually happens with my money? :O
Icanhaswebspace?
also, I might donate some more in a month or two :D
You can have webspace, just contact me on MSN/IRC
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: Gwynzer on March 01, 2010, 10:17:38 am
A bump to this sticky.

With the recent hardware failure, we'll definately going to have to upgrade at some point soon.  If everyone donated €5, we'd have enough to replace (And upgrade!) and still possibly have some left over to look at bumping up other hardware too.
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on March 01, 2010, 10:26:29 am
What we'll do would really depend on what budget we can manage to get, so more donations would allow us to do a bigger investment in a better server. If we get more money than we need for updating the server we'll use it to finance the monthly costs, or if you want, refund it to the people that donated.
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: LeeumDee on March 01, 2010, 11:28:35 am
Have €5 courtesy of Liam :)
aka, just donated.
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: Gwynzer on March 01, 2010, 12:04:06 pm
Good man.
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on March 01, 2010, 12:15:39 pm
It's highly appreciated!
Title: Re: Donations for expansion!
Post by: LeeumDee on March 01, 2010, 05:14:30 pm
I'll try to donate a little at the start of every month.
Or if you'd prefer, collect it up and donate once a quarter due to paypal fees.