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Originally Posted by Coda
Ads aren't going to be worth it for us. We're not a big enough site to make enough money off of ads to be worth the annoyance factor. We'd rather attract more users with the adlessness than make a couple dollars a month on ads -- ONE person who donates for the DI every month would probably be worth more than the ads!
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$1 is better then no dollars.
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Originally Posted by Coda
Oh yeah, this... um... the truth is we cancelled that. ^^() It turned out to be too much work for not enough benefit and it would have multiplied the effort necessary to make changes to the layouts in the future. And in fact, working on the social groups makes the multiple layouts that much more work -- if I work on the social groups, the other layouts will fall out of sync.
We'll reconsider it if we do a site redesign, since modern web technologies will make the task easier, but it's not a priority.
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You know... I brought up of how much work was required to begin with on that project and how that time could had been spent elsewhere. I'm glad it got canned, I just hope not a lot of work was put into it (if any at all.)
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Originally Posted by Coda
Also intentional -- our NPC count was getting too high to do meaningful things with and we chose to let some of them fade into the background in order to focus on a smaller set.
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True, and I'm glad you did. I feel like this is partially my fault, but it is true. The count was way to high. I could no longer keep track, you guys kept making so many characters that a NPC didn't mean anything anymore. But now you aren't doing anything with the NPC's at all. Seriously use them, get a RP'er to spend all days in the forum as that character. Make it work up to a small event that was created with user input via roleplay or talking in general. There's so many easypeasy things to do with these guys :/ I'm surprised no one just decided to take it upon themselves and stole a NPC account to do this stuff themselves.
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Originally Posted by Coda
Another coder isn't going to help -- or at least, not another coder we could afford on Trisphee's budget. We've got two competent coders already that are working for ridiculously cheap.
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You know... I have friends that would offer you free labor willingly with no pay in return, they just want something to work on. Now one of them is of age, and a bunch of them in College bored out of their mind. Quote me an email for them to submit an application and I'll go around advertising. :/
Oh and pixeling in general. I'm still eager to apply, but I've been more interested in tuning my skills first instead of just handing out junk. (Unless people want pixels of any kind, then I'll churn out my meh level pixels and slowly improve from there..)
One last thing. Just give me an NPC account, a pool of rewards, and the ability to make a new forum. I can churn out meaningful events like nothing.