How Do Donations Work?

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Donations are going to see a few changes over the way that HR (and I assume Extreme/LR) do things, because we all have different ideas, so this is how we feel they can be improved;

• £5 minimum donation, anything above can be donated for as long as it's in £1's (ie £6, £7 etc, not £5.50, £6.39 etc).
• For every penny you get 1GG (this is the easiest way to remember it), meaning £1 is 100GG, so the minimum amount you'll get is 500GG, as that't the least you're allowed to donate for.
• For every £100 you donate (in one go), you gain 10% for free, up to 50%, so if you donate £100, you get 10% free (so £110 worth of GG - 11000), if you donate £200 you get 20% free (so £240 worth of GG - 24000), if you donate £300 you get 30% free (so £390 worth of GG - 39000) etc, to £500 (50% extra free).
• Donating for levels will be restricted, a rough example; When the majority of players are 300-350, we'll allow people to donate for level 250 or so, so they can catch up, but can't buy their way to the top.
• Donations currently go through Lapta's PayPal address, but we're having an Evolution one set up, so keep an eye out for that.
• The biggest change is rare items will be limited, one drops, one can be bought, a second drops, a second can be bought - This stops donators from getting ahead of people that go for items on their own, but it won't mean they're unable to keep up.
• Rare items lost to permanent bans (which have no chance in being reversed, ie heavy abuse, bug exploiting, excessive grief etc) will probably end up being put up for auction on the forums, we've yet to decide on exactly how this will work, but the idea behind it is that the server doesn't lose rare items because someone is a tit (imagine someone getting the first full Mir set ingame, then exploiting a bug to get free GG and getting perm banned - The first ever Mir items are ALL gone). This needs further discussing and opinions collected, but that's our basic idea so far.