Maybe a way to get money

[PoosKi]

Ads are an interesting area. We don't want to turn them on unless we absolutely have to (ie we need more money to fund servers). As of right now, the website is fairly cheap for us and the servers (Jailbreak mainly) gets enough donations along with admin contributions to fund the servers entirely. Once our contract expires in 1 month, we also have a bit of extra spending money so money-wise we are in a good position.

We did consider placing motd ads on 1v1/retakes as those servers don't get any donations but that might annoy players who dislike ads and I think most people like ads so I want to avoid stuff like that if possible. As for additional sponsors, it would sick to get extra ones although I don't know who would be interested. We actually get a lot of website traffic so we are pretty marketable to people who advertise gaming related stuff (CSGO gambling websites come to mind but thats another questionable thing to advertise).

Byte Of course it is Jail Break (all the rich boys play jail-break)

[Dassi]

IMO If you add credit's as an incentive it just becomes a money grab. It should be completely voluntary and done by people that just want to help and that's it. Know all those annoying ads on mobile games? This is basically what it is, if you add credits to the equation.

But that's just my opinion.

I think its fine because its optional and it would be helping the server I dont see the problem but I respect your opinion

I don't think I'm really explaining it properly, it's pretty hard to. Basically if anything ad/money related gives you a form of in-game currency, it's sort of becomes compulsory otherwise you can't really keep up with others. Players would have to grudgingly go through all the ads just to get those free credits. It's just like any other advertisement "Do this and we'll reward you" and if you don't do it you'll fall behind, so we're kind of forcing you to do it.
It's really hard to explain but a majority of incentive driven advertisement campaigns end in a really annoying experience.
But everyone has their own opinions right? That's just my personal experience on the matter.

People wouldn't gwt behind because if its only like 100credits a month annd also my idea would just to have ads on the border of the page not pop up ads

[DESTINY (BANNED)]

Pretty good idea but like Byte said if there isn't any financial problems what's Te please point? I think getting a gambling site as a sponsor would be a good idea though.

[Mourning Wood]

Byte said gambling sites would be questionable, probably because a large player-base is under 18.

[Pilot Stephan]

I'd say that generally the flow of players ages range from 12-30 from personal experiences, So I think gambling websites should be considered, But acknowledging the player ranges and making sure what people think, Personally I use ad-blocker but I'm sure a few cool looking designed ad's I'd be fine with and most of the invex members would as who doesn't want more players on the server!

Edit: After thinking about this I feel like csgo gambling isn't even age applicable since you literally have to tick a button to receive access to gambling. So I believe it should be more considered Byte .

Thanks for the suggestion OP