Would Money Accelerate Paragon Chat Development

[Jeff Anderson]

I love the idea of a scriptable RPG platform based on Coh,  so much so that I've been working on my own set of tools built on top of icon. Unfortunately my day job keeps getting in the way of making as much progress as I would like to make.

I also realizing  I am coding stuff that will likely be implemented in a more sophisticated and flexible way on top of paragon chat at some point.

Question to the coh knowledgable engineers in the room (code walker, arcana, etc) , would funding accelerate the implementation of some of these features? In other words,  is there a scenario to hire some devs who under mentorship instruction, could  crank some of this stuff out?

In terms of an estimate in effort what would the order of magnitude estimate be? Would others be willing to contribute? I can imagine there is community of folks who can't wait to see the RPG aspects implemented.

[TahquitzII]

I don't think they can answer that directly... a campaign for Paragon Chat that collects funds or money might heighten the possibility of NCSoft changing their mind about the existence of such a project towards the C&D direction and away from the "whatever" treatment we currently enjoy.  (I had a brilliant metaphor for this, but with reading other threads lost in semantics, I'll leave it up to the reader to figure out why.)

There is, however, a Paypal link at the front of cohtitan.com if you feel compelled to donate.  Like giving to the American Red Cross in a disaster, funds go towards all of Titan Network and not any one specific project (website upkeep, etc.) 

There is a strong possibility (none mentioned AFAIK) that SCoRE is avoiding touching that donation account as a measure of CYA (Google it), so consider donating to Titan Network as a way of offsetting issues that SCoRE attached personnel might otherwise have to deal with under the Titan Network umbrella as one less thing taking up their time (at the very least.)

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[Aggelakis]

Taking money for a project that skirts the very edges of DMCA is probably a bad idea.

[Jeff Anderson]

I'll donate, thanks for pointing that out.

Being more specific, would the developers of paragon chat take money to crank out the code? Is a timing is scarce issue, regardless of potential contributions? Or can more attention be directed if funds were contributed ?

Just putting it out there.

[TahquitzII]

The one with the blue squares under her name is as close to an official answer as you can get.  Signs point to no.

[Aggelakis]

I'll donate, thanks for pointing that out.

Being more specific, would the developers of paragon chat take money to crank out the code? Is a timing is scarce issue, regardless of potential contributions? Or can more attention be directed if funds were contributed ?

Just putting it out there.

Taking money for a project that skirts the very edges of DMCA is probably a bad idea.

This is pretty specific.

[Jeff Anderson]

Got it, fully understood. I'll donate and leave it at that

[Victoria Victrix]

Well Titan is paying for the chat server paragon chat is hosted on.  So anything you donate will go to keeping that running.