The problem is we're using quantized 'cavcon' levels for an almost analog distinction of differences. The problem is the reserve fund could be five bucks, it could be fifty, it could be five hundred, it could be five thousand. Moreso, the amount paid to keep the servers running is relatively constant, but the amount coming in from donations is not. Cavcon 2 only means that we're using the reserve funds. It doesn't say how much the shortfall is, it doesn't say how much the reserve fund is... it's mostly a "we need more donations" or a "we have enough donations for the moment" or a "we have a bit more donations than we need, so we're building reserves". It has no meaning as for how good or bad the situation is. It's just a message.
Of course, that's the intent I guess.. if RAWA was ready to disclose exactly how the funds were doing, he'd have started posting numbers from the start ("donations last month: $X, current reserve: $Y, estimated expenses: $Z") meaning that since he didn't, it's because for whatever reason he either can't or doesn't want to disclose that level of detail. I can understand some of why, it could well be a legal thing what with Cyan being a for-profit company but running a server on donations from fans as a non-profit side event. It could also be that he doesn't want to discourage us with the values of just how close things have been to running out over time.. worse, if he did, then he'd likely be pressured for detailed cost-breakdowns of every single time things are pulled out of the donations/funds for maintenance or what... and he has a job. This isn't his job, he doesn't have time to spend writing posts of cost/value charts and expense account breakdowns. Plus, well, it's not like we have a stake in the company.
In turn, that's why I'd kind of like some measure of feedback of details. Nothing like actual values, I wouldn't expect those for reasons stated above, but perhaps a thing saying "At the moment, assuming no increase of rate of expenses or donations in the forseeable future, we have roughly 1.5 months of money left in the MOULa reserve fund." We could do the approximate math then, not to say "Oh no we need to raise $MONEY by next month or we're gonna drain the fund!" but instead can say "Oh dear, we need to raise donations by about 20%".
I dunno if we'll get even that though... as noted there's valid reasons to not give us the full details... but I don't think we'd mind a little more info to go by...
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