Speaking about the donations, me and @howlze had a major discussion about this a few months ago. Some months bring in more cash, some less. You mention hiring a scripter who would redo and make new scripts for the server. Altough that is easy to say, it is hard to do. You see, the server has it's bills which are payed by the donations of the generous playeres, but some months don't do as well, in getting donations. So if a month exceeds it's needed donation ammount to keep the server running, it is put aside for a not so efficient month. With that being said, let's talk about the fulltime scripter idea. You see, saes runs on old and outdated and also newer scripts. Meaning, if the server were to hire a scripter from the outside world, they would have to spend countless hours going through and getting to know the scripts Saes is working off of. The server lags, because of the old scripts. If @brophy were to bring in a half decent fulltime scripter, he would have to drop a fat stack of cash, in order to pay for the services, which sadly, let's be honest, none of us can afford. Server needs adjusting, and it sertainly needs an update of scripts, but at the end of the day, it is a free to play server, where anyone is welcome. My two cents.