Hello all together :)
As you probably already noticed there have been some changes on the server lately, most of them are related to VIPs. I will try to break them down and give some explanations why they happened.
Easy things first: We came to the conclusion that the @Director role does not serve its purpose anymore. The role got removed and @Nivinski and @Struppi got moved to @Technical Staff .
In order to promote map diversity we increased the default cooldown for all maps from 20 to 40. During 24h the server "plays" 40-50 maps on average so in the worst case scenario you have to wait a little over a day to nominater your favourite map again. Some maps that always had a higher cooldown than the other maps have been adjusted accordingly.
Now about the changes to the VIP system: There is a german saying which would translate to "You can't survive only from air and love". And exactly like that you can not run a server on players only. In the end you need money to pay the server bills. Lately our monthly costs are excdeeding our monthly income from VIP donations. This has many reasons overall. For example we upgraded to a bigger fastdl to be able to host more servers, we spent some money on advertisements to get nosteamers on both css and csgo. Also in the past we had some generous admins who donated a lot of money to us, which are sadly not part of our community anymore. Another big reasons is the huge amount of people with Permanent VIP. While it probably seemed like a good idea when UNLOZE started it is kinda hurting our financial situation in the long term
We want to get to a point where our monthly income is higher than our monthly costs again, for obvious reasons. That is why we were collecting some ideas for changes to the VIP system. Some already got implemented, others still need to be talked about internally.
The following changes are already running:
The following ideas still ned to be discussed:
Feedback is welcome!!!!!!
Small Teaser: There will be a Halloween Event soon, very similar to the XMAS Event :)
As you probably already noticed there have been some changes on the server lately, most of them are related to VIPs. I will try to break them down and give some explanations why they happened.
Easy things first: We came to the conclusion that the @Director role does not serve its purpose anymore. The role got removed and @Nivinski and @Struppi got moved to @Technical Staff .
In order to promote map diversity we increased the default cooldown for all maps from 20 to 40. During 24h the server "plays" 40-50 maps on average so in the worst case scenario you have to wait a little over a day to nominater your favourite map again. Some maps that always had a higher cooldown than the other maps have been adjusted accordingly.
Now about the changes to the VIP system: There is a german saying which would translate to "You can't survive only from air and love". And exactly like that you can not run a server on players only. In the end you need money to pay the server bills. Lately our monthly costs are excdeeding our monthly income from VIP donations. This has many reasons overall. For example we upgraded to a bigger fastdl to be able to host more servers, we spent some money on advertisements to get nosteamers on both css and csgo. Also in the past we had some generous admins who donated a lot of money to us, which are sadly not part of our community anymore. Another big reasons is the huge amount of people with Permanent VIP. While it probably seemed like a good idea when UNLOZE started it is kinda hurting our financial situation in the long term
We want to get to a point where our monthly income is higher than our monthly costs again, for obvious reasons. That is why we were collecting some ideas for changes to the VIP system. Some already got implemented, others still need to be talked about internally.
The following changes are already running:
- Donating of VIP rewards you win during an event is not allowed anymore. You can only win VIP for yourself. There are many reasons behind it, one of them for example is some ppl having perm VIP who are donating the VIP they win to others.
- Between 6pm and 10pm server time only VIPs can nominate maps.
- Some Maps are only nominatable for VIPs (some of them with a very high Cooldown).
Code:
ze_castlevania_v1_3
ze_FFVII_Mako_Reactor_v5_3
ZE_FFVII_Mako_Reactor_V6_B08
ze_ffxii_westersand_v5_2
ze_ffxii_westersand_v7_2
ze_FFXII_Westersand_v8zeta1
ze_ffxiv_wanderers_palace_v4_5s
ze_harry_potter_v2_1
ze_lotr_minas_tirith_v2_2fix
ze_lotr_minas_tirith_v3_3
ze_mist_v1_3
ze_Paranoid_Rezurrection_v11_9
ze_Pirates_Port_Royal_v3_6
ze_shroomforest2_v1
ze_shroomforest3_b6_2- Normal Admins and Retired Admins do not have the VIP status anymore. Retired Admins got the Member status instead.
The following ideas still ned to be discussed:
- Adding a 2nd cheaper VIP option with different perks.
Feedback is welcome!!!!!!
Small Teaser: There will be a Halloween Event soon, very similar to the XMAS Event :)
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