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Originally posted by Lee!!
I get that part but this is the part I dont get
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That's something the staff decided after Athens made this option of name altering. The headache of constantly changing members names has gotten a little too much. Everyday a member contacts the staff to change their name. Most sites, people would just register again to make the name they want.
Since ATRL continues to outgrow its server all the time, funds are needed to make an upgrade. The site doesn't get really any money outside of a deal Joe made with Fanity and that's not even close to being enough. Joe is trying to get a new server to help with the slowness, but it will cost us. We've encouraged members to donate and fellow moderator, Celestial donated some big money to help with those improvements. Even that isn't enough and Joe is coming out to pocket to cover the expenses that the donations don't cover.
So now we decided that if members are so desperate to change their name, they can do so for a price. Not for no $50 or $100 or anything, but something to help go toward funding improvements to the site. This won't go into effect until a good while, so that's what it means by this being the last time we'll offer username alterations for free. Announcements will be made eventually once the logistics are worked out.