I am not a old timer, although I did use the project seveal years ago. I dont count myself as being someone that should be trusted, wether I was here for 10 years or 10 days. All they asked for was donations, and thats what we gave (giving) them now. If they wanted someone to host the things on there computer, they would have asked for that, but the simple idea boils down to this,
You dont want one person holding all the power in a communtity. Especially someone outside of the dev department. They asked for donations to find a dedcated hosting solution that has no bias towards others. What if the person so willing to host the project on their own equipment has a fall out with one of the devs, or one of the many community members. That person holds everything up for ransom because of the situation.
I dont know about you, but thats not a good outcome. The hosting should be done by a businnes not affilated with the project to prevent things like negotiations.
There is a multitude of ways to help here other than just offering equipment. Advice, Guides, Code, Database, Bug Reporting, just to name a few. If they come up and say "EQEmulator is in need of Coders" then we need to help code. Now though, its "EqEmulator is in need of Donations" plain and simple.
Thats just my point of view though. And you can choose not to listen to it as I am, might as well be, Noob. I have no leverage in the project, but I do care alot about it, so I have a voice.
P.S. As it has been covered, the biggest downside to finding a host is the Loginserver. It's closed source by its author and the dev team. The reasons are obvious, but to find a host, you have to have a host that you can trust with that information. And who better than someone that doesnt even know of EQEmu.
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