October 2019 Donations & Finances

[Loanet]

You still gotta pretty much camp it to get a chance to donate.

[Doc_Scorpion]

5 minutes ago, Abraxus said:

Didn't beat last month's record of 3 minutes 30 seconds (I think it was), but done is done.

What amazes me is that the average donations is almost U$30.00/person...

[MoggieCanada]

52 minutes ago, Abraxus said:

Didn't beat last month's record of 3 minutes 30 seconds (I think it was), but done is done. 😉

 

My opinion, but the reason why it took longer this time around was the following:

 

* The announcement was in the afternoon, where people are out and about. I got the notice at 2:30 Eastern Time. In the past it was either around noon or the evenings, again my time.

 

* The amount has been steadily increasing which makes sense. The infrastructure is expanding and more development is being tossed into the pool. 

 

* It's September. Kiddies are back in school, people are back to work, and household budgets are going to rise. This may delay the donations from coming in.

 

* Miscellaneous stuff: were players doing RP? TFs/SFs? A mission like I was doing and might have missed the Admin notice if I was in the middle of a scrap.

 

* The most important thing to remember is that the donation target must be filled before a deadline. I don't know what the deadline is. Is it the same day as the announcement? Is it a week from now? Is it at the end of the month? No matter when the deadline is set, as long the target is reached before the deadline, we are fine.  It's not how fast we hit the target, what matters is that we hit it. 🙂

 

 

Edited September 28, 2019 by MoggieCanada

[Abraxus]

I know.  I was just blown away by last month's time, which admittedly set the mark pretty high.  Plenty of mitigating factors as to why that wasn't matched, or beaten.   It's still plenty cool that this community, as relatively small as it is when compared to other active MMOs, is able to get it done even as quickly as we do month to month.

[Eirwen]

I wish we were able to almost 'pre donate' on the day some way.

 

I am EST and on a Saturday at 2:30pm I think the window was open I was out and was unable this month to do my part. I know a lot of us want to but its all in the timing.

[The_Warpact]

We've been back 2 weeks and already got to donate WOOT thank you for bringing COX back!

[Cinnder]

Thanks for running this at a time when those of us in Europe aren't asleep.  Was nice to be able to contribute.

[Couthless]

13 hours ago, Cipher said:

 

 

That is a whole lot of Pizza being ordered.

[Cipher]

15 minutes ago, Couthless said:

That is a whole lot of Pizza being ordered.

That's quite odd lol, I've sent a request to have that actual business' information updated (pending review).

 

( In case you're unaware, our host is the actual OVH @ https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/ 🙂 )

[PaxArcana]

Well, at least now we know the Server-Hamsters are all well fed, right?  😄 😄

[HelenCarnate]

On 9/28/2019 at 3:02 PM, MoggieCanada said:

My opinion, but the reason why it took longer this time around was the following:

 

* The announcement was in the afternoon, where people are out and about. I got the notice at 2:30 Eastern Time. In the past it was either around noon or the evenings, again my time.

 

* The amount has been steadily increasing which makes sense. The infrastructure is expanding and more development is being tossed into the pool. 

 

* It's September. Kiddies are back in school, people are back to work, and household budgets are going to rise. This may delay the donations from coming in.

 

* Miscellaneous stuff: were players doing RP? TFs/SFs? A mission like I was doing and might have missed the Admin notice if I was in the middle of a scrap.

 

* The most important thing to remember is that the donation target must be filled before a deadline. I don't know what the deadline is. Is it the same day as the announcement? Is it a week from now? Is it at the end of the month? No matter when the deadline is set, as long the target is reached before the deadline, we are fine.  It's not how fast we hit the target, what matters is that we hit it. 🙂

 

 

And this month it was about 2 grand or over 50% higher. 

[Murcielago]

I'm never going to be able to donate

[Lunchmoney]

On 9/28/2019 at 9:02 PM, MoggieCanada said:

 

* The announcement was in the afternoon

7.23 in the morning is not the afternoon. It is possible that other time zones, outside America, exist 😉

 

The team have stated they are roving the start time to give opportunity to different countries.

[GM Capocollo]

5 hours ago, Lunchmoney said:

7.23 in the morning is not the afternoon. It is possible that other time zones, outside America, exist 😉

 

The team have stated they are roving the start time to give opportunity to different countries.

The donation window opened at 8:30 PM (20:30) BST/UTC+1.

Edited September 30, 2019 by GM Capocollo

[Lunchmoney]

7.23 evening, then. I missed it completely and was just going by the OP time. Either way, my point stands 😉

[ShardWarrior]

On 9/28/2019 at 7:00 PM, Eirwen said:

I wish we were able to almost 'pre donate' on the day some way.

Same here! 

[Skyhawke]

[Abraxus]

I love that so many express disappointment over missing the donation window.  Not because they missed it, of course.  But, because the desire to do so is so strong across the player base, that it actually inspires complaints about not being able to contribute.  Yet another reason I love this game, and this community!

I posted a reminder in the "General" area to give folks a heads-up that Saturday was the day, hoping to get the attention of folks who might have forgotten it was happening.  That was about 2 hours before the window opened.  I can only hope that enough people saw it, and that there were fewer that missed the window, than would have been the case otherwise. 

[MetaVileTerror]

As someone who put themselves in to debt during Live . . . I'd just like to thank all the donors for giving an old addict their fix for free.

[Mr Isotope]

8 hours ago, ShardWarrior said:

Same here! 

Ill second that 

[MiamiCG]

On 9/30/2019 at 2:23 PM, MetaVileTerror said:

As someone who put themselves in to debt during Live . . . I'd just like to thank all the donors for giving an old addict their fix for free.

Good stuff right there