New server, donations and admin privileges.

Demolytion and Pyromaniac Inc. now officially owns a Left 4 Dead Server! This server is hosted on the WantedGov Machine, and i want to thank them for making this possible. They have been very kind and professional so far.

I just completed the transaction for this month's server bill (w00t!). I payed 11EU, and i now need your donations.

Donations are not and never will be obligatory, and the minimum amount of money to consider a transaction as donation is 2EU.

I still havent' figured out who wants to donate and who doesnt, so i'm going to post here, on the mailing list, and on the steam group, this message.

I thought a bit about it and i will try doing some differentiation between users who pay and users who don't.

Clan members who want to donate will receive access and admin rights to the server. I am modding the server to grant admin permission to single members, currently there are three groups of people who have been defined:

1. Clan Members: The list of feature these members will receive is as follow:
   • Reserverd Slot
   • Kick Players
   • Immunity of 20
   • Google apps account including email address (nickname@dpi-clan.org), docs, calendar and sites
2. Donating Clan Members: The list of additional features they will receive is:
   • Reserved Slot
   • Generic Admin
   • Google apps account including email address (nickname@dpi-clan.org), docs, calendar and sites
   • Kick Players
   • Unban Players
   • Slay/Harm Players
   • Change Maps
   • Special Chat Privileges
   • Start or Create votes
   • Change Server Password
   • Turn Cheats On and Off
   • Immunity of 50
   • Additional web-interface control panel (to restart the server and mod it) (only on request)
3. Server Admins will simply the "All Flag" flag, as described here.

I am truly putting a lot of effort keeping the website and all the other services up and running, in addition to this i am making my way through TONS of guides and howtos about server administration and modding. I am not asking for a huge amount of money, 2EU is less than the price of a 0,25cl glass of beer, so, it would be really nice to have quick responses here.

After all this chit-chatter let's get to the donations info :P

I am accepting PayPal donations and PostePay payments (for whoever lives in Italy). There should be a link at the end of this post to donate, you can use this or you can give me your email address so i can make a payment request through PayPal

For requests about PostePay ID you can write me at darkrow [AT] dpi-clan.org (replace [AT] with @).

That's it, for now.

See you on our new server!