Urban Dead is accepting donations from its players as a means to help support the server and keep it responsive. These small gestures of generosity allow everyone to play the game for free.
As a gesture of thanks to players who've supported the game, anyone who donates $5 (US dollars) can have a character of their choice made immune from the 160-hits-per-day IP limit (although they'll still only have 50 Action Points, and each character has a personal 300-hit limit to prevent abuse). Donations of more than $5 will allow multiple characters to become unlocked, at a rate of $5 per character.
(If you're donating for a character in Monroeville: the future of the city beyond Diary of the Dead, is uncertain, but if it ends up being closed down, we'll either evacuate your character to Malton, or let you transfer the donation flag to a Maltonian character.)
To send a donation (by PayPal or credit/debit card), just click the button above - your local currency will be converted to US dollars. Part of the donation form will ask for the characters you're donating for - give a list of those that you wish to be made immune from the IP limit. (Even if you're unaffected by the IP limit, it'd be good to have the donations linked to characters - we may well introduce future in-game gestures of appreciation for donating, and if we did we'd want to hand them out retroactively to our earlier supporters.)
Please make sure you specify the correct character, when donating; this cannot be altered if you change your mind. Also only specify the characters you are donating money for - if you specify more characters than are covered by your donation, they'll just be processed in the order you listed them and excess characters will be ignored. Donations of less than five dollars will just be taken as general goodwill donations.
And to state the obvious: donating for a character doesn't mean that it'll get any extra lenience if that character is banned for abusing the game.
Donations are processed manually - you'll be sent an email when they've been applied. This could take anywhere between a few hours and three or four days.
If you haven't got a bank card, or Paypal, then I'm afraid we can't really accept donations, postal cheques aren't really worth the hassle. You could buy Kevan something from his Amazon wishlist and mention your character names in the note, for it to count as a donation the value of the item, if you don't mind it taking a while to get through.