haha I'm glad you like itLoaded up RM and thought I was made a donator LOL. Nice update
@Cloud , seeing my miner script is the only one for OSRS, would you say $0,79 is okay?
Well, you're going to have to pick an hourly rate (but I believe you can charge a fraction of a penny per hour, but @Arbiter knows the details of that better than I)
It's simple, you pick an hourly rate to charge and then as a user runs your script we bill them. To be accepted as a premium script, it goes through the standard review process but then both the code and runtime quality are evaluated. If I like it all, it gets accepted.
I like that system, are there going to be things like monthly flatrates? And how do I commit such a bot?
This way it's a no commitment deal, if the bot breaks or is shit, you haven't wasted $10. I believe the hourly rates are going to be extremely low, and in most cases you'll easily make the money back just by running the bot.
Those flatrates would be optional and only for people who bot a large amount of time per day
We're talking rates similar to $0.01/hr which can actually work about much better for the user. Usually you'd pay $10-20/month and as slash said, if the bot breaks or isn't working properly you're basically wasting a big chunk of that money. Here, you're paying mere cents so if you run it for a few hours and dont like it you haven't wasted $20. If the bot breaks you're not invested in it as you're only paying for every hour you use.
Ooohh I was expecting rates to be like .25 - .75 an hour, so I thought that was kind of bogus, but if the rates are going to be relatively low then I have no problem with that. Thanks for explaining.
Not a problem
There are many ways scripters can use to determine a good rate for that script. Could be based on existing monthly scripts, factoring in the average number of hours users would use that particular kind of bot every month or it could perhaps be based on the profit per hour, even the average time it takes to get 99 etc.
It's unlikely to happen for reasons that have already been stated.
Going off of the "if the bot breaks" trend, it also makes it so that if the bot breaks users won't be running it and devs won't be making money, hence it encourages them to always keep their quality up. It also makes it much easier for a user to test a premium script without feeling like they wasted their money if they don't like it.
