Can't afford BattlEye

[PANTERA]

More developers but closed source imho. People MM can really trust on. But this is not the problem. The problem is how to afford BE, and enough solutions have been provided: Ads on sites + registrations + donations will do the job. Those who don't want to pay can still support Soldat by being active on sites

[Dusty]

Just follow enesce blog and mantis tracker.

Not much happening there.

[Dimmea]

leagues are fine without BE, the real problem is the public servers/gathers.

Who the fuck cares about Public? in every Game there are much Hackers on public, well your Gather point is right.

[zakath]

leagues are fine without BE, the real problem is the public servers/gathers.

Who the f**k cares about Public? in every Game there are much Hackers on public, well your Gather point is right.

Not caring about public is quite short sighted as thats where new players come from.

[darDar]

leagues are fine without BE, the real problem is the public servers/gathers.

Who the f**k cares about Public? in every Game there are much Hackers on public, well your Gather point is right.

Not caring about public is quite short sighted as thats where new players come from.

thats the point.
if there were no public servers you wouldnt take here atm Dimmean :l .. they are most important for new players.

[Dusty]

Does the scene need new players??? omg

[Bonecrusher]

it really does, if we want to keep soldat alive, old players are living - new players are joining. so there will be always some people playing Soldat

[darDar]

Does the scene need new players??? omg

LOL .. omg dude ..
of corse .. else no one would play soldat the result would be that soldat community dies

[jrgp]

More developers but closed source imho. People MM can really trust on. But this is not the problem. The problem is how to afford BE, and enough solutions have been provided: Ads on sites + registrations + donations will do the job. Those who don't want to pay can still support Soldat by being active on sites

You are way too optimistic... Where the hell do you see any development here? Minor update every 2 years? (btw 1.5.1 beta fails)

Just follow enesce blog and mantis tracker. Things can't get any faster if only one is involved in client/server development. Is he paid? Don't think so. Has he a real life? Probably yes. To get process run faster soldat needs more developers. I'm not in a hurry and the last decision is of MM. Soldat is enough good to create communities, advertise the game and increase overall activity. We must stay IT with the topic.

That's the thing. EnEsCe won't let anyone else work with him. To him, Soldat is essentially *his* project and MM lacks motivation to convince him otherwise.

[Dusty]

Does the scene need new players??? omg

LOL .. omg dude ..
of corse .. else no one would play soldat the result would be that soldat community dies

We have our community already. I've played with the same guys for the last three years.

[Sauron]

NASRAT!

[L[0ne]R]

We have our community already. I've played with the same guys for the last three years.

You don't seem to get the point...
Even the "community" and "the same guys" will eventually decrease in numbers because even most addicted Soldat players quit eventually. If there are no new players joining the community - Soldat will die.

[Dusty]

We have our community already. I've played with the same guys for the last three years.

You don't seem to get the point...
Even the "community" and "the same guys" will eventually decrease in numbers because even most addicted Soldat players quit eventually. If there are no new players joining the community - Soldat will die.

Oh I do get the point, very well actually. It's just my opinion and I'd say I'm full of the crap that keeps flowing from the publics to the private servers.

Eventually I'll be gone among "the same guys" aswell.

[Furai]

Michal could eventually poke EnEsCe.

[-Major-]

Does the scene need new players??? omg

LOL .. omg dude ..
of corse .. else no one would play soldat the result would be that soldat community dies

We have our community already. I've played with the same guys for the last three years.

probably because you don't play with the new players... (new to the league/irc and gather scene)

[Prodigyx]

Bad news, man.

Is there another solution?

[RemiX]

Hate to say it but MM you have been wasting your money. All that money for a anti-cheat that probably worked half the time and also having periods of no updates and hacks out everywhere. Screw donating to keep battle eye running, we need to donate to MM for all that (wasted) money he spent on us.

[darDar]

Hate to say it but MM you have been wasting your money. All that money for a anti-cheat that probably worked half the time and also having periods of no updates and hacks out everywhere. Screw donating to keep battle eye running, we need to donate to MM for all that (wasted) money he spent on us.

well play soldat on a public server without BE and please tell me again that this was waste of money. well the amoumt of coins is really high with 200 per month now , but its definately not wasted.
by the way..
arent there any other anti cheatin tools arround which are for free or much cheaper?

[Ouchek]

MM, I hope you're reading every reply of this thread (cept dustys cuz I really wonder the hell hes up to) but as you can see 100% of the community wants you to either release the code to the public...OR allow a REAL team consisting in people who are not NSC basically to dev the game.
This would benefit you and us, cuz that team would make the game better, with quicker updates etc which means fun for us and money for you.

[urraka]

1. Setup ads on soldat.pl and forums.soldat.pl (and possibly other related sites).
2. Setup a donation service. Would also be neat if there was a way for a person to subscribe to monthly payments (I'd gladly donate monthly, and if it's automated I don't even have to think about it or remember it). PayPal has a way to do both easily.
3. Try to find a sponsor or two.
4. Since I'm under the assumption that people still do buy the game, increase the game's registration fee a bit.

To that list I would add some "SHARE WITH FACEBOOK/MYSPACE/WHATEVER" buttons somewhere visible. That can help advertising the game a little, which would hopefully increase the traffic and give more income from ads.