Mossycobblestone partnership offer

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Hi Alblaka

I work for a minecraft hosting company called mossycobble.com I am enquiring to see if you would be interested in an affiliate partnership scheme.

What you have to do:
Advertise mossycobble as a primary source of Minecraft hosting that can 100% support IndustrialCraft, recommended by yourself to anyone who wants to play your mod on SMP.

What you get in return:
A free 1Gb power package from mossycobble.com that you can use to develop IC or for you to run your own IC server. You also get 25% of any business you bring to us, that means if you refer someone using your affiliate link you will get 25% of the money they spend back in cash.

Please let me know by email dave@mossycobble.com if you would like more information or if this is something your interested in.

Thanks
Dave - Mossycobble Minecraft Hosting

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Warning, i was mistaken here, just posting for completion
So...
I drop you the whole code, advertise your site AND give you 75% of any link-income i could eventually get, while dropping our own paid domain?

Nope, not really

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Hi Alblaka

I don't know if i explained it properly or you missunderstood, all you have to do is advertise our hosting company as a place that can host SMP IC servers, any customers you bring to us you get 25% of there monthly bill so if you refer an $80 dollar customer you get $20 from us.

In adition to this we give you a free server(spider package) that you can do anything you want with, its totally free and you get 100% control over it.

You would not have to drop any domains or give us any of IC code.

Thanks
Dave

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Ow, in this case i've probably misread your offer, my bad.
I've mistaken it for one (received multiple of these in the past weeks) of the "Hey, host your stuff on our mod site"-offers.

So, you're side is meant to provide SERVERS for paying people? That's a different deal, of course.
Concluding this:
- I advertise for your server providing service
- The IC² team gets 25% of revenue gained by this advertising
- We get a fully running SMP server for free

Sounds quite neat. I'll requote your message in the Developement forum, as stuff like this isn't running over my sole decision anymore.
But from my PoV i don't see anything running against this

Greetz,
Sorry again for this missunderstanding, most likely caused by my lacking English,
Alblaka

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Anyone is free to discuss and drop oppinions, of course in effect only the developement teams final oppinions will matter, though.

My PoV:
Why not. We merely need to place a link and get a free server :3

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If you want to rely on them as a source of funding for later on, this contract will essentially ask you to dedicate more time to IC2 than as just hobby. That is my 2 cent. If I am the sponsor, I will be likely to expect something new every week to ensure that it is worth letting you use their server for experiment.

Afaik they rather want the attention they will get (doubtlessy) if i promote a link to their side next to the download link of IC².
Heck, this made CocoSmackdown and Killerbeez famous among MC-YT. I can understand them offering a good deal to get similar popularity.

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It all depends on quality. If you promote shitty hosting, then there may be a problem. I noticed them pop up once they worked the same deal with spacetoad this past week or so. Haven't heard anything else about them though.

Long as it's not multiplay; I say sure, why not. Long as I get to keep doing IR without you poaching members. lol

No way lol, IR IS Server #1.
But i will tell everybody asking for not-P2P servers to go their site making an own one :3

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On the plus side, we have our own test server. Expect me to break it in less than 1 hour.

XD

Or lets piss them off by building chunklong wires and causing CPU-overusage and then request a better server as that one cant handle IC :3
Wait, damn, Player's new EnergyNet isn't that CPU-intensive anymore, wouldn't work >.>

Now... giant ITNT craters could work :3

I should mention though, the Reactor is explosion is extremely large, but for some reason barely uses CPU. Heck, when first testing i didn't even notice the Reactor exploding, neither sound (was too far off), nor any lag.