I'm not looking for approval from people here who get on their high-horse acting like a know-it-all. I spent 2 long years on this server, if you want to ignore that then fine, but the players haven't forgotten. It's just that due to my job as a Webmaster, I don't even have time, I'm just burning myself out trying to work all day long in front of a computer just to come home and work all night long on a hobby and get little sleep for the next day of work. The point of the auction is to offer it to the players without bias, as in it's not a personal choice to pick out someone to hand it off to, but also pays for the server because the money is going to Scryed first to pay off any cost and then whatever is left over (if anything) goes to me for future projects. The disclaimer at the end of the post about a possible new project was to stop rumors if I wanted to help with a smaller project that Scryed and I and several others might want to try as a team (not as an all-burdon-on-me thing). ScytheRO is not dead, ScytheRO is very much alive, which is why it's so hard for me to manage it since I don't have much time anymore. People who claim I have plenty of free time need to fact check, and people who think I'm just auctioning for money don't know me at all.
My original plan (which I thought was great at first) was to release the source code (user data removed) for free to everyone so that other servers could use us as an example (ask Scryed to prove it), but Scryed needs money to host the server so that plan was given up on after three long discussions. Eventually I came up with the idea of an auction to both continue ScytheRO without me personally running it, and keep Scryed (our server host manager for 2 years) from going into debt over a server he originally let me run for free until ScytheRO started making enough money to pay for itself (which was a huge help). So no, it's not a money grab, it's just to avoid putting Scryed into debt over a server he helped me host. Money first goes to him to pay off the cost of the server and then to me (if any is left over) for any future projects I work on. I do make (somewhat amateur) computer games and computer applications outside of eAthena.
