Lugdunum Stellar Crisis Help Lugdunum Survive! Andy Graves, January 5th 2004

Would you like to help Lugdunum to continue providing Stellar Crisis services? As well as the famous Lugdunum Stellar Crisis Server, Lugdunum is home to The Stellar Crisis Room, and several dedicated servers for SC tournaments: Stellar Kings, the ISCL and the Yahoo! SC Club Tournament. If you would like to make a contribution, you can mail it to: Friends of Lugdunum, 1026 Dakota St., Wenatchee WA 98801 or Use the PayPal button here. As the original Web-based strategy game, Stellar Crisis has a long tradition, spanning over ten years, of providing a gaming experience which is free to play. For five years, the Lugdunum server has been an important part of that tradition, and for more than three has been among the most popular servers, for its wide variety of game types, its high quality of competition, and for its reliability and speed. These days, such reliability and speed do not come free. In the past, fast and reliable SC servers have been made possible by the generosity of academic or commercial institutions who allowed SC enthusiasts to use their resources. Lugdunum has never been so fortunate. Nor is it one of those SC servers which are behind a Cable Modem or DSL connection to the Internet, with the speed and reliability issues that arrangement entails. In fact, the Lugdunum server is housed in an enterprise-grade telecommunications center (in Ft Lauderdale, FL) and leased for a monthly fee. For the last three years or more, this quite substantial ongoing cost has been borne by only a very few people - the Friends of Lugdunum. This is a small group of dedicated players who were invited to contribute, and who rose to the invitation with magnificent generosity. I do not know their names, but they know who they are and I am immensely grateful to them. Who has contributed, and how much, is known only to the group treasurer, Greg Nord (aka. LifeIncarnate) who is also the Moderator of the Yahoo! Stellar Crisis Club. Now we hope to spread this burden a little more widely - and thinly - hence this appeal. If you enjoy any of the Stellar Crisis services Lugdunum offers, please consider making a donation. It doesn't have to be much - every little helps. All we ask is that if you use PayPal and intend to give a regular small amount, please consider a larger but less frequent donation, because PayPal's cut of small transactions is significant. That is to say, we would rather receive $12 per year than $1 per month! Please contact Greg (life.incarnate@charter.net) if you have any questions, such as about other methods of making a donation. Thank you!