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The Lost Cosmos

Looking for a hosting sponsorship or discount
What we're looking for »
We're looking for a hosting who would like to potentially sponsor us (or give a decent discount for the first month or two) on a dedicated machine that could run our bot, server and website. We aren't looking for anything insane for a month while we make and setup the server but we would like to upgrade in the future. I'd like a machine with 16GB of RAM minimum in order to host all 3 things.

Gameplay plan »
The user will spawn in a spaceship going through space at hyperspeed (shown using optimized particles) and you will be frozen in place (reference to the cryogenic freezing that occurs later on) where you read some timed holograms about character information, sound information and resource pack information.
After this you will be teleported to a cutscene with the designated characters voice you had chosen. This will explain some parts of the backstory and help people understand what's happening.
Once that is over you will crash land on the wrong planet and have 12 hours of gameplay to complete, this will include; quests, multiplayer missions, pvp battles with mobs, grinding to level up your suit and statistics.
After completing around 12 hours of feature-rich gameplay you will have the choice to either; stay on the planet you crashed on and inhabit it (hard mode) or go to the original planet (easy mode) and the game will turn into a towny mode where you have to gather resources and rebuild civilization with friends, family and other server members. You will be able to go to war too.
As the server progresses you and your team will be able to upgrade your ship to travel to new planets basically turning yourselves into a type 3 civilization.
Spoiler, at the end you will have the choice of killing the alien civilization who originally attacked earth.

The story »
Far in the distant future the radio-waves of the human inhabited planet Ecrth have reached a distant type 3 civilization, they decoded the gibberish that is the radio-waves and had come to a conclusion that they can be the only intellectual civilization within the extremely large universe. They decide to start a conquest to rule the near galaxies. At this time Ecrth was under siege, war had broken out multiple times and the governments were collapsing. Russian’s were preparing for biological warfare. The diseases they were creating were powerful enough to wipe out countries within a decade with an almost-impossible chance to cure. This disease had escaped the military laboratory and created a world-wide pandemic. After years of attempting to cure the virus Russia, France, England and some parts of America, with the very little resources available, decided to create a massive spaceship capable of taking select survivors of the human race to inhabit another planet but while in development the alien civilization had been travelling to our galaxy getting ready to annihilate Ecrth and everyone with it. Once they reached Ecrth scientists from around the world had stopped work on creating a vaccine and instead tried to acknowledge and have first-contact with the alien spaceship hovering over earth. Almost hours after the arrival 3 beams had shot down from the alien ship completely flooding several countries and murdering what was left of most of the world. In a panic earth’s prized possession had been launched sending a host of people into space. Once the spaceship had gone past Mers it launched the 25 people into smaller spaceships with enough power to go across the galaxy. These hosts were cryogenically frozen and after nearly 10000 years 22 of these 25 had died during this time due to asteroids, miscalculations and other un-factored problems when travelling the galaxy. After finally waking up the 3 humans were in alpha qentauri and had directed their ships towards a habitable planet when their ships controls and navigation system had failed, the 3 lone survivors had crash landed on a different planet. What was this planet? Can they repair their ship? Is there any life?

Playable characters »
  1. Locus, a 13 year old boy who was supposed to arrive with his family but instead is stuck with 2 others.
  2. Perdita, a 15 year old girl who had been abandoned by her peers and family on Ecrth and has great knowledge and endurance
  3. Partum, a 32 year old engineer who loves to work and his dream has always been to go to space. He didn’t expect it to happen this way.
Final words »
Over the last 5 days of working on this server we've had over 250 discord members (no advertisement yet) and people are already getting hyped for this. We hope to find a hosting who will be with us for a long time and does not mind helping us out for 1-2 months while we get on our feet and pay for development and builders, again, we are willing to pay but please do not offer us some insane specs we cannot afford. Let me know your thoughts below!

DISCORD: https://discord.gg/lc
WEBSITE: https://thelostcosmos.com *coming soon*
 
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How many players you expecting? If its the same as last thread, 16 gigs won't hold that many people. Gl finding someone though.
 

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How many players you expecting? If its the same as last thread, 16 gigs won't hold that many people. Gl finding someone though.
I think 16GB can hold 100 players, we're using custom plugins which will be completely optimized and not all the server will be done. The release will have double the amount of specs at least.

EDIT: 100 players is the maximum for our trial/demo, as for the release we're expecting 500-1000 players depending how it goes.
 

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You won’t be pulling 500-1000 players with your budget, you can’t even afford hosting. You need to manage you expectations, spend less on things you don’t need such as that social media manager. That’s something you could do yourself when you have a spare moment.
Get off of my threads man, holy shit! We've gotten over 300 people in our discord in just 4 days and we have a hosting sponsor. Just because a server doesn't have a $25,000 budget it doesn't mean it wont succeed. We're planning for future.
 

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I've recently helped a server regarding peformence. They have 12GB of ram, with 125+ players daily on a Survival server.

So it is possible. I would suggest buying a dedi from Hetzner or etc. Any get a System Admin to mange it **COUGH** I'm a sys admin :))

Oh well, good look though.
Send a DM maybe we can find out a good offer for you guys! :)
 

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I've recently helped a server regarding peformence. They have 12GB of ram, with 125+ players daily on a Survival server.

So it is possible. I would suggest buying a dedi from Hetzner or etc. Any get a System Admin to mange it **COUGH** I'm a sys admin :))

Oh well, good look though.
Send a DM maybe we can find out a good offer for you guys! :)
My partner is a system admin luckily and I've managed to get an i9 9900k with 16GB's of RAM for $30 a month Kappa
 

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You don’t need the budget of $25,000. 300 people in a Discord server is nothing, I’ve seen people with sounds but nobody even plays the server. The development alone on this concept is going to up in the thousands and the builds sound like they’ll need for this to be good to work as well. You also mentioned that this won’t be pay to win, this will be extremely hard for you to turn a profit. If you actually want to make some money and not go even more broke do something more basic and poor all the money into advertising. That’s what will make you money, people like to play with others and have a thriving economy and you do pay to win.
This sounds like a long and expensive project that won’t generate a project. I’m not trying to be a cunt but I really don’t think this will work out in your favour.
1. I don't take advice from people who can't use grammar or spell
2. I have 10 small youtubers and people like Vers ALREADY PAID FOR
3. 300 discord members in less than 5 days for a minecraft server is a LOT with no advertisement
4. We have 3 developers working for us doing work for cheap
5. We have a cheap build team doing long-time work for us
6. We have a hosting, an i9 9900k with 16GB's of DDR4 RAM for $30 a month (sponsored)
EDIT: If you would me to go on, feel free to comment again but at this point you're violating rule 1.8 by posting useless information, I've ran several servers in the past and I'm doing this to prove to you special people that you DO NOT need a massive budget for a server. Thank you very much.
 

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The detail of the concept would require a very experienced developer. I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Paying for something cheap almost never works out. You get crappy quality and faults. Why would an experienced developer work for cheap when he knows he’s worth more? I can promise you that cheap developers won’t get this done and small YouTubers won’t reach how many players you want. I’ve seen huge YouTubers with millions of subs do live streams and videos and those servers barley even pull 1000 players. You need to manage your expectations and get more real. This project seems like a money pit that will just keep on taking without showing any results. I’m typing on my phone and that’s why my grammar is bad haha[DOUBLEPOST=1602023854][/DOUBLEPOST]If you want to actually make money, do something like Skyblock. People will still play on the low player count, cheap to setup and just poor all the money into advertising and you’ll make a big turn over. I know you don’t like me but this is just facts and you need to listen instead of being so naive.
Get off my post. It's not that I don't like you, it's the fact that you're telling me everything I already worked out and know. I've ran several servers in the past, clearly you don't have any contacts because finding developers is like lifting up a rock and finding an ant. If you don't look, you might not find the ant, but if you do look - you'll find it. Skyblock is a pay to win shitty gamemode, I'm looking to do something unique and if you personally don't think it's going to work out then fair enough. Join the bandwagon of people I don't listen to in my life.

I can't believe you're telling me to do something like skyblock and saying "people will still play on the low player count" Kappa
This server I'm creating has single player and multiplayer quests, we will have 12 hours of gameplay. After that you can chose to inhabit the planet you crashed on by accident or inhabit the original one which is much easier. It will be like a towny/smp server. People LITERALLY play maps like this on single player.

You are speaking like you're 50-60 and and still think it's the fucking 1900's, "you get what you pay for". Just because someone doesn't have a massive CV of plugins or builds they created doesn't mean they're crap or stupid.

READ INTO THE SERVER BEFORE COMMENTING!
 

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I started in making Minecraft servers and now I’m in e-commerce doing over £50,000 a month in revenue. I’m experienced, know how to make money and I’m giving you genuine advise which you should take. It all comes down to supply and demand. You need look at your audience which is going to be kids. Most kids who play on Minecraft servers want to play with friends, make money and play pvp. Kids aren’t really into playing quests and single player. You’re going into a new game mode which is risky, expensive and which will give a low profit. I’m going to repeat those words just to make sure you got it. Risky, expensive, low profit. That is bad. We don’t like that. You want inexpensive, low risk and high profit. Look at what kids that play Minecraft want, not what you want. They want to make money, kill and have fun with friends.
I don’t sell products that I want, I sell products that the people want. I’ve learnt in life that when people want to do something they’ll do it anyway even though you’ve told them it’s a bad idea. I guess some people will just learn the hard way.
Last time I checked kids play hypixel skyblock? What is 90% of that server?
1. Grinding
2. Quests
The server I'm making has griding, pvp, quests, pve, survival and a lot more than just that.
There is going to be something for everyone, you'll be able to sell stuff to other players and upgrade your suit/ship, you get multiple choices.

The whole point of business is risk and this project isn't expensive, we've spent about $200 and we have another $300 budget. We're not going to fail.
 

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I haven’t played Minecraft or that server for a while but from what I remember it was almost all revolved around Skywars and UHC which is playing with friends and pvp. Hypixel works well because it has a lot of game modes that you can just jump in and out of quickly which keeps people playing and having fun. Having a 12 hour story mode is boring, especially for kids. You might have all these developers and builders but considering your budget they’ll be very low quality. Developers often know their worth, they wouldn’t accept cheap rates if they were actually talented and experienced. Your budget will not cover the costs, development for this would be close to thousands if you want this done right and the builds would also be up there considering there’s going to be 12 hours of gameplay. You need to be more realistic with yourself, this will not work out at your budget. You aren’t even managing your money correctly because you’re already forking out $30 a month for a server when it could be months till your release. You have no concept of money management or economics. Do something cheap and just poor it all into advertising and you’ll make good profit. If you’re really set on this idea you could then do it after that once you’ve saved some capital.
Now you're saying it's boring and I need to pour money into advertisement?
No. Kids play PS4 adventure games all the fucking time. Not for 12 hours either, weekends at a time.
This WILL work out with my budget (which you don't even know what it is) and this project will be a success.
100 or 1000 players, $100 a month or $1000 a month. I will grow this project and it WILL work out, I'm not stupid and I'm not pouring money into average skyblock or faction servers and make it pay to win like a fucking money whore. I'm doing this for every age, for every group of people. Take hypixel skyblock, non-pay-to-win and the BIGGEST server on hypixel right now. Kids spend hours on that, not because it's skyblock but because of the quests, hours of grinding and everything like that. Why do people spend 1000s of hours on fortnite? To become better, to go through the battlepass, to do the in-game challenges.

Every game has hours of grinding, every game has challenges, every SUCCESSFUL game.

I wish there was a middle finger emoji on this website. GET OFF MY POST (3rd time)
 

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Hypixel would still be pay to win if Mojang hadn’t forced them to comply with the EULA. They even admitted they lost of 90% of their profits because of it. Kids that play video games like to compete, play with friends and kill with each other, that’s why fortnite, COD etc are the most popular. Most kids don’t like to sit and play 12 hours of a quest. You’ll get a lot lower conversation rates from your advertisements than if you were to do something that people know and love. You might get 20% of the viewers on a PVP related server but the conversation rate for you would be considerably lower, less people would stay and play and even less buying from your store. You’re to emotionally attached to this idea, get your head out your ass and look at it from a financial prospective.
You're not talking about hosting, this thread is closed.
I'm trying something new, deal with it.
 
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