[a_Guest03]

Ummm, just because the dev "owns" the server doesn't mean that they control it. My mom can't be responsible for how her tenants act in her apartment building unless they cause damages. She doesn't discipline them for being rude. She isn't there all the time.

EDIT: removed flame, isn't necessary

Your "won't donate" comment sounds like an excuse. Image, Hogie, killspree, BaronSprite, khuong, Lethal_Encounter, Trump, etc. etc. etc. all work very hard to give us the ability to run servers. Image worked very hard on creating his server and its content. Hogie has bills that must be paid that stem DIRECTLY from eqemu. All the devs have hundreds of hours of time donated to the project. If you let one GM, or even 50 GMs spoil donating, then you're missing the point of donating. The donations go ONLY to Hogie, who foots most of the bills, who dedicates personal resources to this project, who has a family to support. If you want bannings and bugs to go away, along with jerky GMs, then donate! The sooner they get this stuff squared away, the sooner we get out of the package installers, with complete database packages... Perhaps I'm wasting words.

Your comment about not donating sounds like you're justifying not donating because of a crime of a third party that may or may not have happened -> I didn't hear your example, only that a GM might go crazy. Excuses... Instead, just say "I don't like bad GMs. (cite example here with enough details that we don't dismiss it as a rumor)."

As for 'Thats one of the reasons i wont donate to this project, because even something as small as your opinion has made some of the "Loser" GMs go crazy, they snap on you like you are sub human.' , I use the "I could bring more (insert revenue type here) if you would just (insert condition that would make me happy)." gag on people all the time. It's just that, though, a gag.

Anyway, if you want to dog Image's server, cite an example with names of a situation that would turn you off so much. With examples and witnesses, logs, etc, Image might just do something about it. But he probably has known his GM longer than you. I bet he'd trust the GM. Generalities sway the opinions of people who don't know better. Details will bring a guilty party to light.

If you really value a server enough to donate money, how much would you donate, and under what conditions? Most people here won't donate anyway, whether the servers rule or not. Why pay for free, right? It's FREEEEE! It's free to you and me, but not Hogie; Image has to give up some of his bandwidth... He could switch to modem and save $30/mo.

Nothing is free. Donate whether the servers suck or not.