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Apr 05 2013 2:48 pm
The servers that 26horses Productions uses has been majorly upgraded to a 8 core E5 processor and a increased bandwidth of several terabytes a month allowing several hundred thousand players to play the next phase of testing of System Lords. I've decided not to have a BETA run and just launch the game. The cost to play the game will be around 30 dollars. Everyone will be sent a e-mail that signed up to play BETA alerting them when the game launches. I have to set a few things up before I can launch the game. Once I'm done with these few things I will be releasing a launch date of the game.
Why is the game going to cost to play it? I plan to use alot of profits the game takes in and put it back into the game and to make future games with it. I really don't want the game to end up like all those browsers games where people who can afford to pay the most money can have huge advantages over players. So to ensure against all that there will be a flat one time fee to play the game for life. Later on there will also be a option to pay a 15 dollar a month fee giving some bonus's to the game but it won't be anything that sets players a large advantage against other players. Players who just pay the flat one time fee will beable to enjoy all of the game. These advantages won't have any boosts in military strenght or game experience. I do plan later down the road to provide players with the option to try the game out before buying.
Everything is going really well though. Also systemlords.com and systemlords.net was recently bought. So everyone can choose to use those domains when visiting the game instead. Stargatesystemlords.com will still remain as well.
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Apr 05 2013 11:08 pm
I'd agree with a trial-pay. Having someone pay for a game they know nothing about, will not make them pay.
A month would be good. It's not too long, and it's not too short. The more they put into it in that month, the more likely they'll buy to keep playing.
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Apr 20 2013 5:38 am
I don't like the idea of adverts. While they can be useful, I'm rarely ever interested in what they offer. They're spammy, and clog the place up.
As for paying for certain features, that creates the barrier between
Credit Card Warriors and Free Players that mentioned in his original post. Personally, I think it's fine the way it is, although would like to see it
Free to Play. :)
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Apr 21 2013 6:12 pm
[quote author=Salmack link=topic=566.msg3912#msg3912 date=1366530508]<br />I think, all fans of the Stargate series should propose suggestions.Otherwise this project will be dead soon.<br />[/quote]<br />This project is over a year old, and it's ran just fine without advertisements up until now. Having adverts in the game (I wouldn't mind the forum, etc) feels cheapy to me, and it ruins the look of a good game.<br /><br />I mean, would would have their painted all nice, with hand-painted decals and and all, just to slap a huge "McDonalds" sticker on the side? It's the same with game. Making a game (a masterpiece, if I may) just to slap adverts on it, ruins the look.
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