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help out your fellow player (this is important)
Beyond the typical accolades for those who do, I rarely bother you guys about becoming Supporting Members (SMs), but now is one of those times. Please, take a moment to read this, at the very least.
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To be blunt: this community costs a hell of a lot of money to run. If you've got cash to spare, and you play here every night, and you're not helping out with a Supporting Membership, I'm saddened. Each of our servers is leased solely to us... one of the many cost-incurring requirements we operate under to give our players the highest-quality connections any server operator can offer. We have to pay license fees for stuff like the forums. There are fees associated with launching new services. There's squeak's insanely-high admin salary (lol. no.. no.. all admins are purely volunteer and purchase their memberships like everyone else, including Apophis). And there's other stuff, too. Hell, I'm one of the most behind-the-scenes folks around these parts, and even I don't know all of the expenses involved. None of this is possible without SMs. If you just don't play here that often, I'm not pleading to you. If you play here every night, and you honest to God would be financially irresponsible to spend six to eight dollars per month on something you do all the time, I'm not looking for you to act. But if you play here regularly, and you can manage, by hook or by crook (read: with your own cash or asking for it as a gift), to become a Tactical Gamer Supporting Member, and, in doing so, generally do even more to help your community grow, please do. Official Tactical Gamer Information TG Memberships In Game Member Benefits Other Member Benefits Overlooking the self-serving perks that come with forum membership, it's just a good thing (some would say "the right thing") to do. This thread comes out of the gates locked. I don't want a discussion about why each of us can or can't (or, worse, won't) manage a supporting membership. If you can, do it, and thank you. If you can't, you're no less welcome here than you've always been.
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Steam Community? Add me. | Join #tacticalgamer | Search Results Legend | New Posts Forum Filter | Postbox Toggle | Live Thread Review | One Line Results | Free Remote, Encrypted Backup Darkilla: In short, NS is pretty much really fast chess. With guns. Apophis: I haven't seen anyone say that SM's are better than non-SMs. Nordbomber: This is THE first server I've seen where either side can comeback from out of seemingly nowhere with the right teamwork. en4rcment: I have NEVER experienced the type of gameplay that I have found here. Nightly I am amazed at the personalities and gaming talent. Root: Welcome to TG. Feel free to punctuate your sentences correctly. Monkerz: Its gonna take all my skills to beat those boys off in the future. |
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Re: help out your fellow player (this is important)
We're a few months shy of a year since I made this thread, and I read tonight that Tactical Gamer is consolidating and shutting down some servers whose costs can't be justified by the insufficient number of Supporting Members who play on them:
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Strategic frugality is one of the many assets that enables the strength that this community regularly shows (and will continue to show after this pruning). With today's other server closings, TGNS becomes the only server hosted on its own exclusive box (it doesn't share its hardware with any other game; TGNS consumes the entire box). A cost which typically allows us to host multiple high-performance servers for other games is monthly incurred solely to host TGNS. This makes Natural Selection, in a way, one of the most expensive titles Tactical Gamer hosts. Meanwhile, it's the least-expensive client in our lineup (free), and so it draws a demographic with comparatively little expendable income. That raises the bar for us, the Natural Selection players, to remain diligent in our efforts to support the costs of our server, and indeed our community, by helping to pay the very real bills when we can. And consider clicking on that link even if you're already an SM, as there are now two Supporting Membership subscription levels to choose from. Once again this thread remains locked, so as to not pressure any one person. Just consider what a luxury the server is for us, and please help support its costs when and if you can. Many thanks!
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Steam Community? Add me. | Join #tacticalgamer | Search Results Legend | New Posts Forum Filter | Postbox Toggle | Live Thread Review | One Line Results | Free Remote, Encrypted Backup Darkilla: In short, NS is pretty much really fast chess. With guns. Apophis: I haven't seen anyone say that SM's are better than non-SMs. Nordbomber: This is THE first server I've seen where either side can comeback from out of seemingly nowhere with the right teamwork. en4rcment: I have NEVER experienced the type of gameplay that I have found here. Nightly I am amazed at the personalities and gaming talent. Root: Welcome to TG. Feel free to punctuate your sentences correctly. Monkerz: Its gonna take all my skills to beat those boys off in the future. |
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