Basically, Me and a few friends are making a survival/roleplay server based on the Harry Potter series. Right now, it's a private server that only me and my friends can go on to build. Once it comes out to the public, though, it will need advancements.
So, there's a website called Kickstarter (Kickstarter.com) where you can upload your projects. Then, other people can donate towards the production of your project. Also, you can make rewards the donor can get if they donate a certain amount of cash.
Should I put my roleplay server on Kickstarter to get cash for the production? I can put the money towards: Hiring plugin programmers paying a company to run the server / buying a new laptop to run the server on And towards anything else (technical problems for example if I run the server on a new laptop)
And for the prizes I could reward: VIP status Land (for building in-game) Original development artwork and in-game currency.
If you think I should, reply to this thread and put how much money I should attempt to raise. Thanks for your time! (P.S. Also post whether you would donate or not)
Basically, Me and a few friends are making a survival/roleplay server based on the Harry Potter series. Right now, it's a private server that only me and my friends can go on to build. Once it comes out to the public, though, it will need advancements.
So, there's a website called Kickstarter (Kickstarter.com) where you can upload your projects. Then, other people can donate towards the production of your project. Also, you can make rewards the donor can get if they donate a certain amount of cash.
Should I put my roleplay server on Kickstarter to get cash for the production? I can put the money towards: Hiring plugin programmers paying a company to run the server / buying a new laptop to run the server on And towards anything else (technical problems for example if I run the server on a new laptop)
And for the prizes I could reward: VIP status Land (for building in-game) Original development artwork and in-game currency.
If you think I should, reply to this thread and put how much money I should attempt to raise. Thanks for your time! (P.S. Also post whether you would donate or not)
Probably a good idea, but just get as much money as possible
I don't think it would be a great idea to put a server on Kickstarter. Kickstarter is more for brand new things and not for things that have already been done many times like creating a Minecraft server.
You're probably better off just asking your members to donate to get special privileges, most servers already do that.
Also do not buy a laptop. Complete waste of the donators money. Buy a proper server tower (like the T110 tower from Dell) look for high GHz (some Intel CPUs can "turbo" to 3.8+GHz), good cooling (generally you will have to look at reviews for this spec), Upgradable RAM (Many Dells can have their RAM upgraded without voiding the warranty, also ensure they have lots of RAM slots and don't ship it with tons of small sticks (or better yet choose a low RAM option and buy some more big sticks off another seller)).
It will end up far cheaper and more reliable than a laptop (you could even throw in a low power UPS with the money saved).
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Right now, it's a private server that only me and my friends can go on to build.
Once it comes out to the public, though, it will need advancements.
So, there's a website called Kickstarter (Kickstarter.com) where you can upload your projects.
Then, other people can donate towards the production of your project.
Also, you can make rewards the donor can get if they donate a certain amount of cash.
Should I put my roleplay server on Kickstarter to get cash for the production?
I can put the money towards:
Hiring plugin programmers
paying a company to run the server / buying a new laptop to run the server on
And towards anything else (technical problems for example if I run the server on a new laptop)
And for the prizes I could reward:
VIP status
Land (for building in-game)
Original development artwork
and in-game currency.
If you think I should, reply to this thread and put how much money I should attempt to raise.
Thanks for your time!
(P.S. Also post whether you would donate or not)
Probably a good idea, but just get as much money as possible
You're probably better off just asking your members to donate to get special privileges, most servers already do that.
It will end up far cheaper and more reliable than a laptop (you could even throw in a low power UPS with the money saved).
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