lol @ Mystra.
I knew there was a reason people GMed aside from the joy of dealing with messy community relations problems, eternally grateful community members who
never whine, and the pure unadulterated glee it must bring some GMs to get to spend their time bot-checking, rule-enforcing, and managing player relations instead of playing!!!
EDIT: And, for the record, I was against the de-card donation service, but I didn't deem it worth saying anything about. As long as it's being taken out, I thought I'd voice my brief opinion just so Pandora doesn't think there is only a small amount of support, and that some of it is rational. I just saw that and was a little sad that the server was going to begin offering donation items, or services, not available in game without a donation, you know? Charging for the other stuff (sex change, name change, whatever the others were) make sense because it truly is stuff that doesn't affect game balance in any way that I can discern and simply might make a few people happier (o.O) and be worth $5.
I would honestly have no problem even if you were trying to make money on the server (which I know you're not) because, quite frankly, you guys deserve to with all the work you put into this server. But I'm also VERY selfish because I like the fact that there aren't really any game-play changing donation services that are impossible to get without donations (thus making them not so threatening to those of us with only work-study jobs who are paying for college with summer work money
)
Either way, I respect your decision and you should really do what you want - it
is your server after all. Sorry, this ended up being far less brief than I thought it would be.