here is a working lin til 11.01.2020
https://www.dropbox.com/transfer/AAAAAI … eS8Asn5N_w

yeah, i cant do anything about that

@OP, I would strongly encourage you (and, well, everyone else using JC hosting) to go elsewhere. JC is only making your lives and yoru players lives miserable and definitely not giving a good UX.

Patrick, just so we're clear, it's haily, she / her. Don't blame you though, I know it may take some people a while to get used to the change.
As to the web hosting issue, I'll need to switch domains at some point because, well, CJM, is not exactly valid anymore. Until then though, it is what it is. I don't own this domain, I simply pay for it but I can't do anything with it like change it's nameservers. Whenever I change websites I might see about hosting my own, but I'll need my own server first, and to keep that going I'll need some active income. I've considered making parts of this game paid before, possibly have the usage of some items and / or features restricted to paid users only, but I still need to actually figure out the paypal API and stuff like that first, and I'm still not having much luck with that.

I hate the idea of making certain items paid, honestly. That's a scummy thing to do. Oh, want an ultrabomb? Gotta pay up first. Want to use X weapon? Pay. Want to have an advantage? Pay. THat's what it sounds like and it's the exact same as every other free to play game really...yeah I'm being cynical, but I'm just saying. I don't like the whole oh I need income so I'm going to shove bits of this game behind a paywallargument. There's already a small playerbase, why would you do something that ddives players away?

@Connor:

Agreed. Agreed a whole shitload. COD for instance released a paid K/D tracker. A. Paid. K/D ratio. Tracker. Just...no. Also given the whole stereotype of the community, i.e. the whole oh but it must be free mindset some people have....I don't see it being popular at al...but I do want to point out one nitpick in your post, bot the now closed Battlefield Play4Free (which was actually good) and Battlefield Heroes (also good) had items. TF2 has item drops, but TF2 is its own beast, you get the base game for free then buy additional items.

Point is. In all the games I mentioned above. You got the base game for free, Hey in CoD you get the base game for free with your $60 purchase. And no, Hailey, I'm not saying charge $60, because honestly, this feels like a beta Android mobile shooter. If it was on a phone I could look past the bugs and issues really, since I tend to have much lower expectations of mobile games (thank you industry for that), but....I'm going to float a wild idea out there. Stick with it...

You need income? You get benefits. Now I'm not flat out telling you use your benefits/SSI/etc to pay for a server, but...

Also, read up on the laws related to lootboxes before you even consider that as an idea. There's a lot of backlash on it.

EDIT: Oh and not forgetting CS GO too for lootboxes, and of course...and in the sports genre, Madden. Ultimate team, anyone? Look at how broken that mode or 2K's MyTeam is....and read up on the mechanics of lootboxes, too. They make it as unfair as they possibly can to get you to pay more.

EDIT#2: more mature than a 12 year old on PSN/XBL? Why did I immediately hear in my head your standard 12 y/o trash talk when I read that.

Link is kinda broken, even Omer's one as well. But reading through this topic, I guess I didn't lose anything by not trying it

I hope bb's server problem will be fixed, . . ., when?

Actually...DLC's a recentish thing. Circa last 20-25 years. And it used to be full on addon packs, expansion packs, those knockff CDs ith 500 levels. But none of it mattered because it didn't affect the game itself in terms of MP. Paying for items certainly /does/ affect the balance of a game, even in tiny, subtle ways. The biggest is it creates two classes of players. Those who can/have paid, and those who can't/won't pay. I'll leave the ethics of DLC aside (that's a whole other subject)
for now.

Let's say you, in the future release a new map pack, a la COD since you seem to be taking cues from ActiBlizz (which is not a good idea really...). Let's sayy you charge £5 GBP for 5 maps. That's generous. Right?

No. it fragments the community. Even if I buy the map for 10 people. I'm out of pocket £50, for buying DLC for a game. I'd be out of pocket money I could spend on food or bills. Because other people would inevitably ask me to buy it for them so they too have the cool maps or whatever you released.

You want DLC? Stick to cosmetic only things. Make 150% sure your sounds aren't able to be stolen and sell soundpacks. Sell different map ambiances. Do /not/ sell things that screw with the game itself. Stick solely to cosmetic items, soundpacks, different sounds for events, different weapon sounds, death messsage packs, etc.

At this point, the game just has one major problem. The release was very poorly done. This means that most players are now gone. Like, now that the issues are sorted out it doesn't matter much since the player base is down to a few diehards. You probably won't see more than 8 players on now, and those players who were originally scared off are very hard to get back, because a first impression means everything.
As regards dlc, you really shouldn't be thinking about stuff like that when the base game isn't anything unique yet. I ask you, right now, why shouldn't I just find the tk source and put up a clone of that to play with my friends, apart from "it's theft"? It has more things going for it than bb does at the stage it is in.

actually, redspot's launch was fairly smooth. The only major complaint was about how loud the distant fireing noises were and that was quickly fixed. But the server stayed pretty consistent, and it didn't lag nearly as much as games like ff or bb did.