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| You can Support! [message #300978] |
Tue, 04 December 2007 12:16  |
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IronWarrior
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Yes, you can help support Game-Maps.NET by donating whatever you can spare to help to pay for the web hosting costs and for a safety fund incase anything unforeseen happens. 
A little history of the site.
Game-Maps.NET now has been around for a few years now, it was first set up by Zunnie as an download section of MP-Gaming.com, since then, it has grown alot to support Renegade and APB by hosting players made maps, skins, tools and lots more, we have close to 1000 linked files on the site, and there is alot more to be added.
The site itself has a small staff, myself was the first person that was recruited with one or two others, only I and Zunnie put any real effort into the site, uploading and linking files, while the others didn't really have the same enthusiasm or the drive, this was at the very beginning of the site's life, but we did enough to make the site known and get it well used by the community.
We had a new burst of life when we recruited a few new staff members that have so far kept with us when MP got into APB and CNC3 was being released, they have helped us greatly with the APB and CNC3 sections.
For a few months, actively around the site has slowed down, with a few or dozen new files being added aswell as my on-going project to replace some of the older files in the Renegade section to new versions.
So we come to the present, in the last few weeks, we had to change hosts which am proud to say, am paying for, a big shout out and lots of respect has to go out to the person who is well known in the community who used to pay for the old hosting, I can't really thank him enough. As we have a new host, I decided to change a few things.
For the last few days, one of my staff members named, alexrirak has been working like crazy on a organizing job, he has moved all the folders and files to a new area in our ftp, to make it better organized then it was before and today he has completed the job.
Since the host change, myself and alexrirak have renewed our energy to work on the site again, by adding new game downloads.
Our first new sections are Call of Duty 4 and Crysis.
We also plan on a face lift for the site, 
Everyone who has used Game-Maps.NET has enjoyed a dedicated website geared for Renegade with fast downloads, so if you wish to be kind and support us, then please click the donation button in the lower right of the website.
Anyone who donates, will have their name forever recorded in our donations sub forum, also if anyone donates a large amount, then they might be given an @game-maps.net email account or maybe an small FTP account for their personal usage as a thank you gesture, though that might depend on the person.
Thank you.
Game-Maps.NET - Serving you.
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| Re: You can Support! [message #301043 is a reply to message #300978] |
Tue, 04 December 2007 15:23  |
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luv2pb
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n00bstories.com is, has always been, and will always be a free service. However, running such a free service involves some expense. Hosting fees, bandwidth and domain registration are our main expenses. This costs several hundred US dollars per year.
Because I have no source of profit, this money comes right out of my own pocket - you may have noticed that I run no ad banners on the site at all - I hate sticking ugly ads all over the site even more than you hate looking at them!
If you are interested in helping to support the site, I am glad to accept any donations that you might be willing to offer. I have an account on PayPal for your convenience. I can also accept hardware donations for my Renegade server. Please contact me separately for that.
Donate $20 monthly automatically:
Donate $50 monthly automatically:
(Automatic Donations can be cancelled through PayPal at any time!)
You may also send cash/check/money order/etc donations to my mailing address:
n00bstories.com Donations
c/o Christine Korza
P.O. Box 43367
Phoenix, AZ 85080-3367
Donations of $5 or more also qualify you for a Premium Account. Each $5 increment is worth 3 months of Premium Account access. Click Here to learn more about Premium Accounts.
n00bstories staff automatically gets premium-level access for the duration of their Staff status on n00bstories.com. Other contributions such as IRC scripts, art, or ideas may sometimes be rewarded with premium access. Also be on the lookout for occassional lifetime access auctions on eBay!
NOTE: All methods of gaining premium access are handled by hand, not automatically. You must use the Contact Us link to notify the staff of your contribution so that we can adjust your account.
Thanks for your interest in contributing to n00bstories.com!!
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(for those less quick people I am mocking him as this has to be by far the lamest thing ever done on this site)
N00bstories Director Of Operations
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| Re: You can Support! [message #301044 is a reply to message #301043] |
Tue, 04 December 2007 15:24 |
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| luv2pb wrote on Tue, 04 December 2007 16:23 |
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n00bstories.com is, has always been, and will always be a free service. However, running such a free service involves some expense. Hosting fees, bandwidth and domain registration are our main expenses. This costs several hundred US dollars per year.
Because I have no source of profit, this money comes right out of my own pocket - you may have noticed that I run no ad banners on the site at all - I hate sticking ugly ads all over the site even more than you hate looking at them!
If you are interested in helping to support the site, I am glad to accept any donations that you might be willing to offer. I have an account on PayPal for your convenience. I can also accept hardware donations for my Renegade server. Please contact me separately for that.
Donate $20 monthly automatically:
Donate $50 monthly automatically:
(Automatic Donations can be cancelled through PayPal at any time!)
You may also send cash/check/money order/etc donations to my mailing address:
n00bstories.com Donations
c/o Christine Korza
P.O. Box 43367
Phoenix, AZ 85080-3367
Donations of $5 or more also qualify you for a Premium Account. Each $5 increment is worth 3 months of Premium Account access. Click Here to learn more about Premium Accounts.
n00bstories staff automatically gets premium-level access for the duration of their Staff status on n00bstories.com. Other contributions such as IRC scripts, art, or ideas may sometimes be rewarded with premium access. Also be on the lookout for occassional lifetime access auctions on eBay!
NOTE: All methods of gaining premium access are handled by hand, not automatically. You must use the Contact Us link to notify the staff of your contribution so that we can adjust your account.
Thanks for your interest in contributing to n00bstories.com!!
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Haha, nice.
| -TLS-DJ-EYE-K wrote on Mon, 18 March 2013 07:29 |
Instead of showing us that u aren't more inteligent than a Toast, maybe you should start becomming good in renegade 
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| Re: You can Support! [message #301080 is a reply to message #301043] |
Tue, 04 December 2007 17:07 |
Caveman
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| luv2pb wrote on Tue, 04 December 2007 22:23 |
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n00bstories.com is, has always been, and will always be a free service. However, running such a free service involves some expense. Hosting fees, bandwidth and domain registration are our main expenses. This costs several hundred US dollars per year.
Because I have no source of profit, this money comes right out of my own pocket - you may have noticed that I run no ad banners on the site at all - I hate sticking ugly ads all over the site even more than you hate looking at them!
If you are interested in helping to support the site, I am glad to accept any donations that you might be willing to offer. I have an account on PayPal for your convenience. I can also accept hardware donations for my Renegade server. Please contact me separately for that.
Donate $20 monthly automatically:
Donate $50 monthly automatically:
(Automatic Donations can be cancelled through PayPal at any time!)
You may also send cash/check/money order/etc donations to my mailing address:
n00bstories.com Donations
c/o Christine Korza
P.O. Box 43367
Phoenix, AZ 85080-3367
Donations of $5 or more also qualify you for a Premium Account. Each $5 increment is worth 3 months of Premium Account access. Click Here to learn more about Premium Accounts.
n00bstories staff automatically gets premium-level access for the duration of their Staff status on n00bstories.com. Other contributions such as IRC scripts, art, or ideas may sometimes be rewarded with premium access. Also be on the lookout for occassional lifetime access auctions on eBay!
NOTE: All methods of gaining premium access are handled by hand, not automatically. You must use the Contact Us link to notify the staff of your contribution so that we can adjust your account.
Thanks for your interest in contributing to n00bstories.com!!
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(for those less quick people I am mocking him as this has to be by far the lamest thing ever done on this site)
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Why do that? Someone asks for help and support in there work and you just laugh in there face.
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BLUEHTHEN YOU AR NOT JUST A BIG CHEATAS AND YOU THE BIG HEAD JUST YOU USE FLY H4X FUCK YOU BIG CHEATAS YOUR CHEATZ IS BAD YOU WANT I WRAUGHT THIS YOUR CHEATZ IS BAD HEY IS 1 YEAR YOUR PROMESS A FLY HAX IN MULTIPLAYER AND IS DONT JUST TROOPRM02 I TELL IT ALL WHO REPLYER IN THIS FORUM YOU CHEATZ
Please don't make me type something like that again, not using puntuation is annoying.
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| Re: You can Support! [message #301112 is a reply to message #300978] |
Tue, 04 December 2007 22:27 |
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Also thanks to the person who hosted your servers for the past several years and still hosts one of them.
I'm the bawss.
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| Re: You can Support! [message #301134 is a reply to message #301130] |
Wed, 05 December 2007 04:51 |
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luv2pb
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| renalpha wrote on Wed, 05 December 2007 05:53 |
LOL
webhosting only costs like 9USD for unlimited shit.
waste of time tbh
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First off no one asked you. Second were not talking about web hosting. Fail.
N00bstories Director Of Operations
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| Re: You can Support! [message #301145 is a reply to message #301130] |
Wed, 05 December 2007 06:45 |
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| renalpha wrote on Wed, 05 December 2007 04:53 |
LOL
webhosting only costs like 9USD for unlimited shit.
waste of time tbh
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And server hosting is $75 plus. Retard.
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| Re: You can Support! [message #301188 is a reply to message #301130] |
Wed, 05 December 2007 08:49 |
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cheesesoda
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| renalpha wrote on Wed, 05 December 2007 05:53 |
LOL
webhosting only costs like 9USD for unlimited shit.
waste of time tbh
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Wow, you're a fucking moron. Sure, you can get shitty WEB hosting for $9/mo, but the uptime of the hosts and the quality of the bandwidth is always in question, since the server that the site is hosted on is shared with numerous other sites.
Those types of hosts are great for smaller sites that don't offer much to download. However, once you get to the type of server hosting you need to keep sites like n00bstories or game-maps going, you're going to need a dedicated server.
The typical cost for a good quality dedicated server isn't $75. You'll be looking to spend $150-300 on a quality server capable of handling loads that n00bstories and game-maps have to endure.
IronWarrior, this may be the time for giving, but it's supposed to be unprovoked giving. Requesting it lessens the joy of giving.
Also, I don't think I could support anything that zunnie has a hand in, else I probably would donate.
whoa.
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| Re: You can Support! [message #301224 is a reply to message #301188] |
Wed, 05 December 2007 11:33 |
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IronWarrior
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| cheesesoda wrote on Wed, 05 December 2007 09:49 |
| renalpha wrote on Wed, 05 December 2007 05:53 |
LOL
webhosting only costs like 9USD for unlimited shit.
waste of time tbh
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Wow, you're a fucking moron. Sure, you can get shitty WEB hosting for $9/mo, but the uptime of the hosts and the quality of the bandwidth is always in question, since the server that the site is hosted on is shared with numerous other sites.
Those types of hosts are great for smaller sites that don't offer much to download. However, once you get to the type of server hosting you need to keep sites like n00bstories or game-maps going, you're going to need a dedicated server.
The typical cost for a good quality dedicated server isn't $75. You'll be looking to spend $150-300 on a quality server capable of handling loads that n00bstories and game-maps have to endure.
IronWarrior, this may be the time for giving, but it's supposed to be unprovoked giving. Requesting it lessens the joy of giving.
Also, I don't think I could support anything that zunnie has a hand in, else I probably would donate.
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Yep, I agree with what you said there on the hosting.
Even though you might not agree with the same politics as Zunnie, don't let that make you lose any respect for the site, it's like not going to Germany because of what Adolf Hitler did 50 years ago. 
Alas, taking over the site is a big learning experience for me, there has been many things the last two weeks that I had to learn on the go to keep the site online, has been fun.
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| Re: You can Support! [message #301244 is a reply to message #301236] |
Wed, 05 December 2007 13:26 |
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sadukar09
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| speedy059 wrote on Wed, 05 December 2007 13:54 |
How much disk space and bandwidth does that site use on average every month...?
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I'd say over 1 Terabyte.
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[19:16:48] <APBBR> @ryan3k: THE ENFIELD DEFIES THE LAWS OF PHYSICS BECAUSE THE BULLETS INSTANTLY HIT THEIR TARGETS LOL
[19:16:52] <APBBR> @ryan3k: CHRONO TECHNOLOGY IN TEH BULLETS
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[22:48]<APBBR> @V0LK0V: AOL COMING UR WAI K
[22:48] <APBBR> Host: Quitting due to Westwood Online connection loss.
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| Re: You can Support! [message #301278 is a reply to message #300978] |
Wed, 05 December 2007 15:21 |
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sadukar09
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| renalpha wrote on Wed, 05 December 2007 16:07 |
he has no mother but 2 daddys
explains enough tbh
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Oh gee and I haven't heard that one from a 5 grader enough.
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[19:16:48] <APBBR> @ryan3k: THE ENFIELD DEFIES THE LAWS OF PHYSICS BECAUSE THE BULLETS INSTANTLY HIT THEIR TARGETS LOL
[19:16:52] <APBBR> @ryan3k: CHRONO TECHNOLOGY IN TEH BULLETS
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[22:48]<APBBR> @V0LK0V: AOL COMING UR WAI K
[22:48] <APBBR> Host: Quitting due to Westwood Online connection loss.
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