Trench Wars fund WAS in dire straits (THANK YOU, EVERYONE!)

[Warcry101]

Alright, I'll throw my monthly support into the hat as well.

[qan]

A BIG donation came in: $630! Absolute legend. Thank you for that.

Potentially even bigger due to the added stability, we had a $50 recurring and $10 recurring added. We're starting to be in pretty good shape here.

That puts us at $126.54 per month! 70% of the way to having the bill covered. Huge.

Assuming the recurring payments continue, with now $1801.78 on hand, we're covered for the foreseeable future (almost 3 years!). I don't expect everyone can continue to do monthlies forever, though, so if more people are willing to put in, that means increased reliability.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who's surprised at how fast we've been able to come together to do this, though. Solid community.

I also did a monthly donation.

TY!

[Tiny]

Is resetting and selling old names even a possibility?

[Omega Red]

$45 more in one-time donations since yesterday. Thanks to all who've donated so far.

We're still looking for more folks who are willing to put in recurring donations. Even if you decide you can only do a few bucks a month, it still goes a long way toward sustaining the server.

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Things seem to be slowing a bit. I'll start just editing this post with updates unless we have a new big wave of donations.

9/8 update: a $50 one-time donation. Appreciate it!

thank you for the update. Good job everyone, let's keep it going. I believe the transparency in what the costs are would encourage more people to donate, especially considering how in the past the donation fund was mired in controversy.

I think periodic updates would go a long way in motivating people to donate and keep current people trusting their money is being well spent. I also did a monthly donation.

[TheSauce]

I accept our new underworld king, hail airduster! let your reign be as fruit loops as our last!

[mystic_pizza]

had no idea it was this expensive to keep the game running. id be willing to donate if pub wasnt in such a state of decay. happy to see leagues being active but lack of admin involvement in pub and "recent" ship settings nonsense does not inspire confidence in leadership. not interested in funding this operation under current management

[qan]

$45 more in one-time donations since yesterday. Thanks to all who've donated so far.

We're still looking for more folks who are willing to put in recurring donations. Even if you decide you can only do a few bucks a month, it still goes a long way toward sustaining the server.

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Things seem to be slowing a bit. I'll start just editing this post with updates unless we have a new big wave of donations.

9/8 update: a $50 one-time donation. Appreciate it!

[Asteroid]

MMR dying 6 hours before it normally does, I think this zone is toast tbh, not enough creative thinkers on staff to keep this shit going sadly. I agree with Vys

[qan]

Updates:

We're up to $69.26/month, or 39% of the way to our goal!

There's also been a very generous donation of $360, which covers two full months of hosting.

We're now covered for the next 9 months. I'll try to keep updating regularly so long as new donations are coming in.

Can we see a list of names of people that have donated?

I'm not sure everyone who donates will want to be recognized in that way, but please post in the thread if you donate and don't mind.

Why not tax the league prize pools?

A pretty large percentage of people end up donating their winnings to the server fund already. In DT S26, that was 58% of total prizes!

[Falconeer]

I'll cut to the chase: Trench Wars is broke.







At one time, generous folks put together large prize pools for league wins, and many equally-generous winners chose to donate their winnings toward server costs. This has pretty much been the only thing paying for the server over the past few years.

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We haven't had a large league prize pool in quite a while. If we're only taking in $5 a month (or, to be more accurate, $4.37 after fees), you can guess which direction our finances will go.

Why not tax the league prize pools? If someone decides to donate to a league prize pool again, the zone could take a 10%-20% cut for services rendered and for hosting. So if someone has a 1000$ prize pool, then the zone gets $100-200 and the prize pool is $800-900 now.

[Panda Express]

We had a good influx of donations since the last update.

Now we have a total of $55.75 in recurring payments, or 31% of our goal.

There was also $280 in one-time donations, including a $180 donation that covered one month of hosting by itself.

That has us covered through February so far. Thanks, all.




There's been substantial inflation since we last updated the donation table. It may be one reason why donations fell off. At one point we had some steady donors who used it as a way to keep their accounts floating.

That's great news, thanks.

Can we see a list of names of people that have donated? (I am Panda Express/greenman)

The $180 donation came from gworfork. THANK YOU GWORFORK!!

[qan]

We had a good influx of donations since the last update.

Now we have a total of $55.75 in recurring payments, or 31% of our goal.

There was also $280 in one-time donations, including a $180 donation that covered one month of hosting by itself.

That has us covered through February so far. Thanks, all.

Why is the pubbux coupon so cheap? I got 750k pubbux for my $50 donation. I spend that on !poker in about 3 minutes.

There's been substantial inflation since we last updated the donation table. It may be one reason why donations fell off. At one point we had some steady donors who used it as a way to keep their accounts floating.

[Panda Express]

Why is the pubbux coupon so cheap? I got 750k pubbux for my $50 donation. I spend that on !poker in about 3 minutes.

[Panda Express]

I put $50 to the cause. Merry Christmas, you filthy animal.

[Vys]

Maybe setting an end date for the game and then sending out an email notifying all past and present players of its end date and a proposed "the last dance league". Set it so that the final ends a week before the game ends.

At some point we need accept the inevitable.