As you may or may not know, Movoda is now running on its own dedicated server. There are ads on the pages, but at this point they aren't bringing in enough to cover the cost of the hosting. Up until now I have been paying for the hosting, but I can't really afford to keep that up indefinitely so I am working on various ways to support the server costs.
One way to do this is through donations. At the moment I have Paypal setup, if you are unable to use Paypal and still want to donate you send me a message and we can work out some alternate method depending on what is available to you. I am working on adding some extra bonuses in-game for those who donate, nothing that will affect the gameplay, but some extra cosmetic stuff as a little “Thank You”. All donation numbers are cumulative, 2 $5 donations are the same as a $10 donation.
Here are the current bonuses for donators:
- Extra colors in chat for any donation
- Extra chat emoticons for a donation of $5 or more
- Forum avatar from the settings page for a donation of $10 or more
- Forum signature from the settings page for a donation of $15 or more
- Ability to turn off in-game ads for a donation of $20 or more
- At $25 you can use the image hosting with 100MB of space and 3GB of bandwidth
The easiest and fastest way to donate is through the Movoda Store,
https://store.movoda.net/product_info.php?products_id=28 will give you the product page and in the checkout you can select from various payment options including Paypal, sending a check or money order, or most recently using a Wallie Card. The Paypal donation link below will also work if you have problems with the store interface and just want a simple Paypal donation.
The donation system has recently been updated to allow automatic processing of donations. When your donation is processed you should receive notification both via email and through an in-game message as long as the system could determine which account it was for. This message will give you a locker number and combination, then in-game you can visit the item storage lockers at Ponat and use that combination to open the locker. Inside you will find Quainium Coins which are valued at $0.10 each, you can take these and either redeem them at the donation center in Ponat yourself to have them added onto your donation level or you can pass them on to anyone you want for them to redeem. They can be split up anyway you want or passed on to the right person if the detection gets the account wrong before they are actually added onto any donation level. If you have any problems just send me a message in-game and I'll sort it out.
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By request I'm also going to try out putting a subscription link. Should work basically the same but you can set it to repeat automatically after some period of time. Once set up Paypal should give instructions for cancelling it or drop me a message and I can cancel it so it won't make any more future charges.
