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Kanman
Grand Admiral
Pitch Black
Joined: August 26, 2005
Posts: 1017
From: Virginia, United States
|  Posted: 2007-01-31 18:51
We all know Faustus has said that he may have to shut down the game if subbers dont increase. Now I ask these IF questions of that situation:
IF ds shuts down, will Faustus continue to work on 484 and restore the game when it is ready for release? It is reasonable to think that the game is too expensive to keep running without profit, but no reason he cant keep coding on 484 when he has the time and then restart the servers when they 484 is ready for release.
AND IF he will restore the game when it is ready again, will he send out a MASS EMAIL to the old players informing them of its restoration?
AND IF he is willing to do that, would he like us to begin compiling a list of Email addresses of players what will desire to be informed of DS being restored? This list of Email players would probably also be willing to help with the beta testing of 484 before the servers are restored.
What do you guys think?
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Supertrooper
Marshal
Pitch Black
Joined: March 18, 2004
Posts: 1895
From: Maryland, U.S.A
| Posted: 2007-01-31 18:57
Faustus would already have all our Emails, seeing how we have to validate them just to get into a fleet..
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Sanity Assassin (K'Luth propaganda)
Grand Admiral
Sanity Assassins
Joined: February 19, 2006
Posts: 919
From: Pittsburgh PA, USA
| Posted: 2007-01-31 19:45
i have faith it wont fall.
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Peter Wiggin
Midshipman
Joined: November 10, 2005
Posts: 636
| Posted: 2007-01-31 20:03
DS is going nowhere. The posts like this make newbies think "oh its not going to last, i'm not going to sub and work on getting good stats if its going to fail"
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Fattierob
Vice Admiral
Joined: April 25, 2003
Posts: 4059
| Posted: 2007-01-31 20:15
DS will never fall.
As long as the community is still here. DS will never fall.
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Guyton (Angel of Death)
Marshal
Joined: January 25, 2004
Posts: 706
| Posted: 2007-01-31 20:18
Most of the community is unsubbed and in the lobby.
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Peter Wiggin
Midshipman
Joined: November 10, 2005
Posts: 636
| Posted: 2007-01-31 20:20
Including me.. until today. For one month(maybe longer if I.. long story, maybe later) I will be a paying member of DS about.. about my 250th dollar to DS
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KanaDIEn ^_^
Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 20, 2004
Posts: 294
| Posted: 2007-01-31 20:31
my offer still stands .. i resub if i get the press for that line station i lose due to jump bug .. may be only 10 dollaz but all those 10 dollaz add up over time 
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Smith
Fleet Admiral
Joined: October 13, 2002
Posts: 320
From: Pittsburgh
| Posted: 2007-01-31 21:14
maybe....and this is a big maybe, because i know it would probly take alot of coding to produce it. but why not do an advertising blitz and put it on a F2P basis. much like all these korean transfered to english mmos poping up all over now adays. the game is free to play but inturn there is a store where u can buy lets say tech upgrades. keep the stuff thats in the game currently, weapons, scanners, etc etc. but in this store there would be special items. lets use an example like, ugto cloaking device, improve weapons etc, etc. you get the basic idea. now i know what ur thinking no way this would work, but check out games like 2mons, 9 dragons, space cowboy online, war rock, second life just to name a few. also you could make membership packages, different levels of membership to ds, lets say the bare bottom package would last 90 days and cost 10 bucks. but in those 90 days you would get say exp capsules that give u 5 free bonus xp perday and various other things. might be a doable idea might not . but all these games do extremely well on this structure and theres always tons of people on all these games.
Well thats my 2 centavos
Smith
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Coeus
Grand Admiral
Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: March 22, 2006
Posts: 2815
From: Philly
| Posted: 2007-01-31 21:16
Thats exactly how it works now... DS is free to play, but you have to pay to get bigger ships.
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Smith
Fleet Admiral
Joined: October 13, 2002
Posts: 320
From: Pittsburgh
| Posted: 2007-01-31 21:26
no no u totally misentupit my post go look at those game and you'll see what im talking about. you can level up and do all kinds of stuff. here if u dont sub ur stuck in a scout. in those game u can purchase special items.
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$milingJ35te|2™{=21st=}[R33HG]
Fleet Admiral
Joined: September 10, 2002
Posts: 310
From: smilingjester
| Posted: 2007-02-01 10:55
but thats not DS smith thats SCO, DS wouldnt be the same
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Sanity Assassin (K'Luth propaganda)
Grand Admiral
Sanity Assassins
Joined: February 19, 2006
Posts: 919
From: Pittsburgh PA, USA
| Posted: 2007-02-01 11:07
Im always subbed......why people sit in the lobby unsubbed gets me. Ive got better things to do than sit around in alobby of a game i cant play cause im too cheap to shell out 9.99. Christ on a stick, you wont find a more inexpensive, or fun game out there.
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Hawk™
Cadet
Joined: July 22, 2003
Posts: 570
From: Lagtopia, Lag system.
| Posted: 2007-02-01 13:32
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On 2007-01-31 20:03, Amallamard wrote:
DS is going nowhere. The posts like this make newbies think "oh its not going to last, i'm not going to sub and work on getting good stats if its going to fail"
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Helloooooooooooooooooooo? Anyone Home? Do you not realize that 85% of the .1480 players have deserted? Do you not realize theres never more than 100 people on at the same time? Do you not realize that there hasn't been a working game for 2 years now?
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Scotty
Grand Admiral
Joined: May 26, 2004
Posts: 813
| Posted: 2007-02-01 13:45
And who pays for the servers?
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