I don't agree with this. It sounds perilously close to extortion; not to mention you are using a freely provided software package (tf2) in order to demand a profit. I fail to see how you have a right to profit from this to pay off your personal debt. On Feb 18, 2013 10:13 PM, "[BT]Black V" <[email protected]> wrote:
> that is your right to do so > > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Todd Pettit <[email protected]>wrote: > >> My point is if you are using you client settings to subvert my server >> settings then you are hacking. So there is no reason I should not punish >> players who subvert the ads any differently than someone who spams chat, >> abuses voting, trolls the server, aimbots, wallhacks, etc. By your >> reasoning these hacks, cheats, and behaviors are perfectly reasonable to >> use on any server simply because you are located somewhere else. The second >> you connect to our server you are taking the slot of a player who actually >> contributes to the well being of the community and you are just to lazy to >> join one of hundreds of other servers and not contribute to them. I don't >> take it personally, by the way, I prevent it. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "[BT]Black V" <[email protected]> >> To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" < >> [email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:02:24 AM >> Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> The game is free NOW. >> But yes that is my point I would join another server rather than see ads >> >> and your point is you feel you have the right to show me those ads >> >> It's not a personal attack on you, I don't like ads, where I can avoid >> them, I do >> As you server is under you full control, so is my client >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Yun Huang Yong < [email protected] > >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 19/02/2013 3:12 PM, Todd Pettit wrote: >> >> >> I offer a pinion bypass to all my players for $1 a month. It already has >> close to a hundred people who are contributing. So our players obviously >> like our servers enough to contribute. >> >> How do you handle the billing? >> >> I looked around for ways for players to contribute micro-donations and >> most solutions made it crazily inefficient. e.g. PayPal is 2.4% + 30c for >> every transaction. >> >> I would love a mechanism that allowed players to easily contribute micro >> amounts... :) >> >> >> >> ______________________________ _________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware. com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ hlds >> >> >> >> -- >> Cheers >> >> Terry Wrennall >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> > > > > -- > Cheers > > Terry Wrennall > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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