How was LemonPunch funded?

[Hudson]

I seem to recall it had donation rewards, but I'm hoping some veterans can remember what the donation structure was like for the various servers.

What were the donation rewards? What impact did the rewards have on the servers? Did a potential paywall behind certain things have a negative impact on your gameplay experience?

Obviously I'm researching for the archive.

 

[Dr Heckyll]

I remember donations were at first a one time 20 £ or so purchase and you kept it forever, but around late 2014 or something it was changed to monthly subscription

 

[Isuckatgaming]

It had the whole ''Gold membership'' thing, which cost about 10£ per month if I'm not mistaken.

I don't know what things WW3RP had, but HL2 had:

• Zombie whitelist
• Premium storage
• A monthly 2000 claimable tokens
• Bodygroups for citizen models

And the forums had the ability to add signatures to your posts, banners to your profile and the ability to change your forum title

 

[Sil]

I seem to recall it had donation rewards, but I'm hoping some veterans can remember what the donation structure was like for the various servers.

What were the donation rewards? What impact did the rewards have on the servers? Did a potential paywall behind certain things have a negative impact on your gameplay experience?

Obviously I'm researching for the archive.

 

[Dr Heckyll]

let's not forget

 

[Deleted member 2925]

A monthly 2000 claimable tokens

heh.....

 

[Knight]

Goodie bags that had chances of giving you free guns I think

 

[Rabid]

I seem to recall it had donation rewards, but I'm hoping some veterans can remember what the donation structure was like for the various servers.

What were the donation rewards? What impact did the rewards have on the servers? Did a potential paywall behind certain things have a negative impact on your gameplay experience?

Obviously I'm researching for the archive.

The main reason people donated was to get the tokens, cause 2k was enough to instantly gear a new character.

And although it wasn't advertised, if Gurrazor knew you were the sort who had more money to spend than you knew what to do with he'd set you up with gear and weapons (which he wasn't meant to by his own rules) for obscene prices despite knowing the stigma and such. There was one guy, AceofSpades, who'd routinely spend hundreds of dollars for gear only to get PK'd within a week.

 

[Blackquill]

Goodie bags that had chances of giving you free guns I think

Not entirely correct

They contained smaller items and tokens.

Guns and higher tier shit gurra usually sold people privately over TS/forum conversations for dumb prices

 

[Knight]

The main reason people donated was to get the tokens, cause 2k was enough to instantly gear a new character.

And although it wasn't advertised, if Gurrazor knew you were the sort who had more money to spend than you knew what to do with he'd set you up with gear and weapons (which he wasn't meant to by his own rules) for obscene prices despite knowing the stigma and such. There was one guy, AceofSpades, who'd routinely spend hundreds of dollars for gear only to get PK'd within a week.

He’s done the same shit for monolith too, I hopped on a few times

He’s so flooded with cash from donations he can actually afford to pay his devs on there

 

[Gabe]

The main reason people donated was to get the tokens, cause 2k was enough to instantly gear a new character.

And although it wasn't advertised, if Gurrazor knew you were the sort who had more money to spend than you knew what to do with he'd set you up with gear and weapons (which he wasn't meant to by his own rules) for obscene prices despite knowing the stigma and such. There was one guy, AceofSpades, who'd routinely spend hundreds of dollars for gear only to get PK'd within a week.

0 protection, 110 armor for ryans old model and a crossbow. Was a good laugh when he died thinking the suit is overpowered

 

[uncle kev]

The main reason people donated was to get the tokens, cause 2k was enough to instantly gear a new character.

And although it wasn't advertised, if Gurrazor knew you were the sort who had more money to spend than you knew what to do with he'd set you up with gear and weapons (which he wasn't meant to by his own rules) for obscene prices despite knowing the stigma and such. There was one guy, AceofSpades, who'd routinely spend hundreds of dollars for gear only to get PK'd within a week.

real gamers remember @Finlay3110 's dog

 

[Rabid]

0 protection, 110 armor for ryans old model and a crossbow. Was a good laugh when he died thinking the suit is overpowered

He tried to cheat Novus out of dealers so got lured to the beach and ran when he realised they planned to kill him only to get mown down, PK'd and his crossbow taken.

He’s so flooded with cash from donations he can actually afford to pay his devs on there

I remember checking out their forums and they literally have daily staff/player abuse reports lmao

 

[Knight]

He tried to cheat Novus out of dealers so got lured to the beach and ran when he realised they planned to kill him only to get mown down, PK'd and his crossbow taken.


I remember checking out their forums and they literally have daily staff/player abuse reports lmao

Psisyn is a cool streamer, he has a few videos of him on monolith

I think gurrazor payed him to play on there and he definitely gave the guy free upgrades, stat boosts, money, etc

 

[Rabid]

Psisyn is a cool streamer, he has a few videos of him on monolith

I think gurrazor payed him to play on there and he definitely gave the guy free upgrades, stat boosts, money, etc

Yeah, Gurrazor admitted he's paid a few people to try and get more publicity to his server - trolls and popular people alike.

 

[DoubleD]

Yeah, Gurrazor admitted he's paid a few people to try and get more publicity to his server - trolls and popular people alike.

yeah he even got danielfromsl to shill it too

 

[Blackquill]

yeah he even got danielfromsl to shill it too

He didn't shill monolith tho

His strat was to pay youtubers to play and make videos;

As far as I know, three of them either said no or went on and pissed around; those being Britbong, Zuthar and DanielfromSL

 

[DoubleD]

Zuthar

Oh yeah I remember that video lmao. At the end he was talking to that Dirty Harry guy

 

[Blackquill]

Oh yeah I remember that video lmao. At the end he was talking to that Dirty Harry guy

Kinda funny seeing staff conflicted on banning someone who's being payed to be on the server but isn't playing by the rules

 

[Rabid]

Kinda funny seeing staff conflicted on banning someone who's being payed to be on the server but isn't playing by the rules

Was funnier when the community lashed out at him for it and he just shrugged and went "but it got us publicity its okay :)"