My Idea to Keep the Server Up
 

We have over 3000 people registered to this forum. I'd guess at least half of them are playing the emulater. If we all contributed a mere $10 tomorrow, we'd have more than enough money to buy DDOS attack prevention equipment. You know this type of thing won't go away anytime soon. There will be countless angry, banned, copycats, antisocial (etc.) people out there that will want to do this again.
I'm personally donating $25 tonight. It's more then worth it to keep our game up. How long are you willing to let the server stay down due to some sad nerd, who is keeping us all from the game we love?

Anyone disagree?

Even though I am only like level 9, I wouldn't mind donating to the server if in fact donating would fix the problem. But really, how is there anyway to tell how much this "DDOS prevention equipment" would cost, and if it would even really work or not?

Not everybody can or will donate. But $10 is not alot individually. How much do you spend on pizza, coffee, eating out, other games or entertainment? You can't buy much with $10 today. It's probably not a great sacrafice for most of us for unlimited free EQ classic that can't be found anywhere else.

I'd also like to know how much the equipment would cost. I'm sure it works, as all the current MMO's are able to withstand this type of attack generally.

id donate too, be great if we had an idea of how much is needed to prevent this, then people could see the exact dollar amount to when they get to start playing. Could use one of those donation goal meter things.

I'd bet that would work well. People are so freekin addicted to this game, I could see that meter filling up as quickly as the exp bar in lower guk.

Yeah it be nice if a dev. could comment on this and let us know if this is even an option for them.

Yes dev response would be awesome. If this is a nominal amount for this size of a community we should get donations going asap.

I have a ton of respect and gratitude to the devs for doing the project, but I fear that they are reluctant to give us monetary numbers. I think the whole idea of discussing money in detail is a touchy subject.

Personally I wish they would tell us at least an idea how much they need. Somebody could then make an EQ exp bar that needs to be filled up to satisfy the cost. I'd love that and surely donate.

I can understand, if it is the case, the devs not wanting to give a number for the standard donations, but this is more like an emergency fundraiser!

Answer seems simple, allow a one-time option to buy plat or gear for whatever price ($10-$40?), or even just a cool-looking item to serve as a status symbol (rawr I'm better than you), or something fun like a rod with ten charges of turn your target into a Froglok. Incentivize.