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Jilokari Kurvora
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EVE University Patreon & Server Costs

Post by Jilokari Kurvora »

EVE University has various resources available for both members and EVE players in general, including the best wiki in EVE Online (you know its true) and our public classes.

But keeping these things running costs money. As CEO part of my job is to ensure we can afford to cover our expenses. We have two servers, one of which is partially donated to us by Dediserve cause they are lovely. In order to finance the rest we have a page on Patreon where people can sign up to make a monthly donation towards the running costs.
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We could do with some new patrons to enable us secure the future of these services by building up a small reserve. This means that if we lose a few patrons or have some slightly bigger expenses one month we don't have to panic about being able to keep our services running.

To be completely clear:

This is absolutely optional. Our services are, and always will be, free for people to use.
All our members, staff, managers and directors are volunteers. Nobody gets paid IRL from the Patreon funds, all the money goes on running costs.


Thank you to all our wonderful patrons who have supported us so far. You are amazing.
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Re: EVE University Patreon & Server Costs

Post by Jilokari Kurvora »

We currently have some amazing patreons (Thank you all for your support you are all awesome). Understandably with all going on in the world, this month we have seen a couple of larger patreons having to withdraw pledges which has left us with a shortfall of approx 45 dollars against our actual costs.

As always I am committed to ensuring that all our services, such as the wiki, will remain free for people to use and have upped my personal contributions to cover the cost of our server and services.
Again to be clear, our services will always remain free at point of use, which is why any support that can be offered would be greatly appreciated.

Update: you guys are truly awesome! Thank you to everyone who pledged support! As of 4th July we now have enough patrons to cover our monthly costs.
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