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The Rise and Fall of the Quest Trackers
Since Janurary I have run a minishop where people could buy the service of a Quest tracker. I made sure it was a service, as I knew there was no way that this type of product could be anywhere near permenant.

Now things are going a little crazy, as I finally decided to close the minishop. Yup, there are no more of Leo's Quest Trackers for Sale. Many people miss that last line, yes they are not being sold anymore!

Why?

Because they are now free.

Seriously, I am completely redoing the code so they are now completely free.

To house this code I decided to create my own Guild, and I have, Leos Quest Tracker Guild. Here I am in the process of getting the Tracker tutorial up and running.

Now the problem is this. People assume that I am running and trackers are never coming back, so they are demanding me for full refunds.
Ok, yes I agree, refunds are fair enough. But full refunds are not.

Thats because as I mentioned at the beginning that this is a Service, and people with a tracker have used up part of it.

Now accounts cost 550g each, and that is the total I am refunding. Custom Fees, Additional Styles are only being refunded if the tracker is only a couple of days old, otherwise I will say no.

I have worked out a sliding scale, and this is how it is going to be.
    Before April 15
  • 0g
    15 April - 18 April
  • 150g
    19 April - 23 April
  • 250g
    24 April - 26 April
  • 350g
    27 April
  • 450g
    28 April
  • 500g + 1/2 Style Payment
    29 April - 1st May
  • 550g + Full Style Payment


Anyone who disagrees with that can come and talk to me, as I am the one refunding people.

It gets totally irritating when I get annoying people constantly bug me for them. I have said they will be delt with when the Trackers are up again in a couple of days!

But nobody seems to get that.

At this point I am slightly annoyed, but I will not abandon my quest to get this done.

Infact you can preview how far I have gotten with the coding right here: http://lqt.hollosite.com/editoptions.php?p=test
Just don't hotlink it, as that would set me back.

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So far that has been a wierd rant about the current status.

But now I will go back and tell the story of the beginning.

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Long ago, in a faraway land lived a golden age.... ok actually it was in December 05/Jan 06 that it begun.

I had been playing around with the Customer Management System that Woroni had written for me. (Basically it was a system to keep track of my Forum Cards and such).

I also happened to have one of FallenForsakenAngel's (Now teh ebil ducky) Gaia Quest Logs.

Anyway, I got bored and played around with the script, and eventually got a small Signature Image that showed my Quest Stats and such.


Ages later I decided to play around, and this time I wrote my own code, which was inspired by the GQL . Anyway, the Tracker was what I ended up with.

In the end I opened a minishop, and sold them. Later on, the Quest Sheebil Minishop opened, and much later on the IQuest Minishop was reopened again.


After a month or so of trouble finding a good host, ducky stepped in and hosted us. From then on Leo's Quest Trackers were hosted on leo.yellow-ducky.com.

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I tire of this mini rant now, but I hope it sort of lets you see that I am busy, but I am also not trying to rip anyone off. I promise the Tutorial will be piss easy to do.

So please, please hold off on bugging me. At least for a couple of days, as then I can get things up and running again.






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Demon Atemu
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commentCommented on: Thu May 04, 2006 @ 07:23am
*Bugs* LOL I hope everything works out. I await my next mission in helping. Besides I am kinda bored right now and decided to bug you but not for what you are ranting on but what you need me to do.


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