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12-27-2019, 11:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-01-2022, 01:08 AM by Fearless Community.
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I've been quite distant from the community since the map was changed to San Ranevo, but I'm glad to see things are heading in the right direction in regards to respecting community decisions and the development teams.
In my opinion, this does feel like a "monopoly money" sorta concept, as jhayw said. Are you sure the "open discourse" with the team wasn't just them thinking "well it's better than nothing"? I've seen the community cycle through devs kinda quickly in the past and I witnessed the previous team who made LL and ditched the community. A lot of the current dev team are very talented people. Alongside the community, these are the guys that have contributed a lot toward the fact that FL is still going nearly 10 years from its launch.
Admins/mods don't get 10k every time they attend an @ call, the logistics don't make sense to me. Yes, the money rewarded fluctuates based on the "importance" of the update, but there's a lot of factors such as the personal time of these people being used (especially for contributors/developers), their skill sets and more that you really need to think about.
I know that the funds are not as much as they used to be due to server upgrades and less player counts (donations), but there's many options such as more legacy items & commands (we have them for donators & admins, why not devs?), shares in donations (after the base rate for server costs are revoked from this number), "pension plans" if you want to call it that, for veteran devs, and more.
Just take a second to think about it lads!
Anyway, just my 2 cents on this.
In my opinion, this does feel like a "monopoly money" sorta concept, as jhayw said. Are you sure the "open discourse" with the team wasn't just them thinking "well it's better than nothing"? I've seen the community cycle through devs kinda quickly in the past and I witnessed the previous team who made LL and ditched the community. A lot of the current dev team are very talented people. Alongside the community, these are the guys that have contributed a lot toward the fact that FL is still going nearly 10 years from its launch.
Admins/mods don't get 10k every time they attend an @ call, the logistics don't make sense to me. Yes, the money rewarded fluctuates based on the "importance" of the update, but there's a lot of factors such as the personal time of these people being used (especially for contributors/developers), their skill sets and more that you really need to think about.
I know that the funds are not as much as they used to be due to server upgrades and less player counts (donations), but there's many options such as more legacy items & commands (we have them for donators & admins, why not devs?), shares in donations (after the base rate for server costs are revoked from this number), "pension plans" if you want to call it that, for veteran devs, and more.
Just take a second to think about it lads!
Anyway, just my 2 cents on this.