[Akoz]

Originally Posted by Starfinder

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Akoz.. The code is kinda CPU time heavy.. Everything on the site is real-time calc'ed.. I asked the host and the load is on average 23% on the server CPU.. Im sure it would be less if we just calc'ed prices every 12 hours or so.. but im a fan of real-time.
:-p

Mine does it on an hourly basis. Of course it is closer to perfect when its updated at every pageview, but how often is a general markup price that usually is taken from the latest 10-100 sales changed noticably during one hour? Is it really worth the extra 975 peds? Your pages will also be amazingly much faster.

Originally Posted by Starfinder

General statement: Just so you dont think im the evil villan here... I got promised an affiliate agreement from MA... Read it here: www.perc.info/afilliate.rar

In that it states that MA has to provide me with a tracking device so i can see how many are using the PERC client. That would generate "Income" for me which I would pay for the servers with..




MA did NOT provide me with such a program, so I made my own.. Mine can only track downloads and not installs but wouldent it be fair to say that 50% of all downloads would actually install the game??

Today we have :

of the client.. That would bring the total number of installed clients to somewhere arround 1900.. Lets just say 1500.. then we are pretty sure its bigger than that..

Lets also asume each avatar on average "looses" 50 PED pr month.. (Im sure its a lot higher.. you be the judge)

since the affiliate agreement states 50% of all accounts over 500
That would be (1000 * 50 PED)/2 = 25.000 PED pr month.. just for the +500 accounts... Then we would have to get the other % for the other accounts...

I think MA, again, dident think about what they did before they gave me the affiliate agreement.. Hence.. they made it void, on the promise they would pay for the server.. since thats all i asked in the first instance.. heck.. with that affiliate agreement.. I could live off PERC.. and actually hire ppl.. :-p

We got the moste generouse offer from the host of PERC that we could get the first months for free.. just to see how it were like...we agreed on we should start paying 1/1-2005.. The host's director is playing PE as well so he dosent "want" to close PERC down, cuz he knows how much the newbies likes it.. so it has stayed online for 6 months over the initial free periode.. With the promise that he would get paied "any time soon".. I promised him this on the belif that MA would stick up to their word (word is important here, cuz I dont have anything on writing).. Needless to say, nothing has happend.. My contact at MA has lately been asking if the host would accept commercials for the host on the site as payment.... :s tsk tsk... But seeing that the hosts target group is midsized to big companies, I dont think they want ad's on a website that is for single individuals playing an mmorpg...

So to sum up.. I did not start to charge money for my own greed.. I started to charge money so I could pay for the server, as my contact at MA promised he would take care of...

If it is what you said - that they will cover 50% if they got 500 account signups I would totally agreed with you there. Over what timeperiod was it?

I won't agreed with your math though. I'd say 19 of 20 PE signups never deposit a penny. 40% probably have a hotmail account and gives up when he never get the login details email. From the ones acctually entering the game the "laggtopia" that meets them in PA should be sufficient to scare anybody that got a normal sized computer off from playing on.. then maybe 1 of 5 of the ones reaching Phoenix after that deposit...

[edit]
I briefly read through the affiliate agreement, and it seems I also read your post too briefly. You're getting 50% of any "decay" those players have then? That should build up to a very significant amount.. I'd be on the phone to MA yesterday! hey how did you get such an agreement btw? [/edit]