Statement regarding our new funding strategy.

[[TC-R] Renegade]

All we wanted was our stance to be clear before we got sidetracked. I don't see how the new system is in any way a problem to anyone? TC cannot be paid for by just one or two people for the rest of it's life. Donations have always been a thing, now it's just a bit more important since the donations have died down a little. Running a server is not cheap and even if it were possible to migrate to something even slightly cheaper, actually moving all of the data over and setting up and installing everything again would be a hell of a lot of hassle. The servers that we rent at the moment do the best job possible and it's not worth moving anywhere else.

Like it is said above, if you don't want adverts, pay £5 a year, that's less than 1.3 pence per day to help cover the costs. Or you could continue to use ad-blocker.

Some people are basically saying "how dare we not offer a free service, our own time, our own money to host multiple different services. it's outrageous that we would not offer everything we do for free. How dare we ask for help."

Nobody is forcing you to donate, nobody is forcing you to see the adds. But how is it fair that Pete, Elmo & Chuck pay the server bills and spend their own time developing the insim further as volunteers? They are taking time out of their own lives to bring you guys this free service. I honestly cannot understand the problem.