"Half Price" only lasts "Half" the time

[R y]

"Our Altis Life ingame economy is connected to our donation goal, therefore if the donation goal is met, every single player (all donators and non-donators) on the server for 10 days receives 50% off all weapons and vehicles." is what it says.

So giving us it for 5 days? Cheers lads! For all the people who spent money trying to get us up to the £500 for the half price i feel sorry for you but thanks for still donating! This is all a joke, its in writing and they messed us around...Our 

 

[Vladic Ka]

Its funny you should say that because we routinely extend the 50%. You never hear anyone complain about that? This one WILL be extended too.

The current 50% was turned off when we adjusted some server side settings and forgot to turn it back on. It will be turned back on at some point today. Appologies for the inconvenience caused.

I feel sorry for people like you who cannot put a constructive post up without coming across as a bit of a twat.

 

[R y]

Its funny you should say that because we routinely extend the 50%. You never hear anyone complain about that? This one WILL be extended too.

The current 50% was turned off when we adjusted some server side settings and forgot to turn it back on. It will be turned back on at some point today. Appologies for the inconvenience caused.

I feel sorry for people like you who cannot put a constructive post up without coming across as a bit of a twat.

no need to be so bothered man, just a lot of people have been complaining about it and someone has to step up and do the deed.. dont appreciate an admin calling me a twat either like

 

[Shambala12]

no need to be so bothered man, just a lot of people have been complaining about it and someone has to step up and do the deed.. dont appreciate an admin calling me a twat either like

'A lot of people' meaning you and a few hobos who are new to the community and don't realise how much time it takes to sort out these updates etc and how much time the dev and management team spend trying to fix things. Be more patient and grateful.

 

[R y]

'A lot of people' meaning you and a few hobos who are new to the community and don't realise how much time it takes to sort out these updates etc and how much time the dev and management team spend trying to fix things. 

mate i have no issue with if it was a mistake, it just says on the forums that it was still on, but in game it wasnt. Just making a point 

 

[FriendlyFireGuy]

"Our Altis Life ingame economy is connected to our donation goal, therefore if the donation goal is met, every single player (all donators and non-donators) on the server for 10 days receives 50% off all weapons and vehicles." is what it says.

So giving us it for 5 days? Cheers lads! For all the people who spent money trying to get us up to the £500 for the half price i feel sorry for you but thanks for still donating! This is all a joke, its in writing and they messed us around...Our 




 




 

Vladic said it all here, but I'm a bit shocked your first response is to suggest it was a deliberate ploy to only provide it for 5 days - what would be the motivation to do that? Sometimes things happen but I would suggest to anyone reading this, if you have a concern, just ask, rather than post inflammatory and accusatory posts.

mate i have no issue with if it was a mistake, it just says on the forums that it was still on, but in game it wasnt. Just making a point 

You're not making a point - you're showing that you've not got the maturity to think before you act. Next time when you feel the need to 'make a point' do so in a more adult way without immediately assuming the worst - then you'd have known it was a mistake. That will serve you well in life.

 

[R y]

Vladic said it all here, but I'm a bit shocked your first response is to suggest it was a deliberate ploy to only provide it for 5 days - what would be the motivation to do that? Sometimes things happen but I would suggest to anyone reading this, if you have a concern, just ask, rather than post inflammatory and accusatory posts.

at what point did i say it was a ploy??? Just saying its strange that it was in writing and if i donated i wouldnt be happy...

 

[FriendlyFireGuy]

at what point did i say it was a ploy??? Just saying its strange that it was in writing and if i donated i wouldnt be happy...

Come on. Here, you could have posted this:

Just noticed the 50% donator only lasted 5 days, is there a reason for this? Thanks!

Your post was inflammatory, it didn't need to be, sometimes things go wrong.

 

[TinyBigJacko]

To be 100% accurate... the reason the donator sale got accidentally terminated early, is because we moved our Server1 back to our original hosting company, after having placed it for the last month with a rival hoster, in order to assess whether ISP network infrastructure and DDOS-mitigation systems had anything to do with our on-going mass-kick nightmare.

Turns out, it didn't, so we've moved back to our original hoster.

In the process of moving several hundred files and reconfiguring god-knows how many files in the space of a few minutes before midnight (yes, unfortunately, we forgot that deadline dates were approaching fast, and we had to rather rush things to their new, old home), the file which contains the 'donation sale' on-off flag was copied out from the main file-repository, where (at that time) it was set to off. This wasn't noticed in the rush, largely because there are so many other things to take care of which are more fundamental to the running of the game.

Of course, it has now been noticed, and we (as in I) are/am waiting for a suitable opportunity to flip the flag back to the 'on' state in one of the config-files. This can only be done in-between restarts, so it has to fit in with awkward and annoying things like:

• being awake,
  
• being near my computer,
  
• not being sidetracked by my wife or my kids wanting to do RL family things,
  
• answering the doorbell to people delivering birthday presents for my son, or
  
• justifying the actions of myself and my other unpaid volunteer colleagues to self-interested, entitled, tactless people complaining rudely on the forum about things they completely fail to understand.
  

Assuming I don't forget again, or get sidetracked, the donation-sale will be turned back on on Server 1 at the noon restart today.

But if I forget, I will of course refund, pro-rata, the correct proportion of the money you alone have personally contributed as a donator this month, in reflection of the massive, life-altering disruption you have been caused by the absence of this vital, mission-critical system for the last day or so. Just you. Nobody else, because nobody else has taken the time, at such great inconvenience to themselves, to report this excruciating issue in the forthright and 'sword-of-truth-and-justice' exposé way that you did, risking your reputation and standing whilst attempting to stamp out the injustices inflicted upon you by the evil, tyrannical regime of the management and developers who are quite obviously out to rip us all off whilst getting rich and being wanked off by Thai hand-maidens 24/7 at players' expense.

Good on you. Angry voices like yours, calling out non-existent corruption and exposing human flaws in the people who live to serve you for free, are just what this country needs. You'll go far. Hopefully as far as the Moon, or maybe Mars.

Have a nice day.