The terraformings in your map's are really great, to start with.
This blog on the other hand... i dont really agree with the statement.






Server owners try to get donations simply to get help paying the monthly bills to those who ''host'' the server. Those who host it must get the money for power, reparations etc.
The ammount of Donations that the server owners recieve is horrible on the most places.
The few who are successfull in getting loads of donators are lucky and few in numbers.
In short, my conclusion is that about 90% of the server owners make no profit and even give away money to maintain their server. Why do they do that? For the fun of the members who want to play online. (or because they have no idea what they are doing, but that is another subject)

And be honest, you worldpainters started with it because you do like to do it, right?
It became a part of the game, and must be done for fun.
The point about a farmer getting paid is indeed a good point, but.
Do the players on minecraft get paid for playing the game? no, they are not.

Doing things like worldpaint, voxel sniper, worldediting worlds must be for fun, not for commercial goals in my opinion.
That you waste time for these maps, and a lot of times... yeah true, but you knew when you bought minecraft that it would be time consuming, right?

Atleast i knew, and wasted 6 years in maintaining a online guild.
I allowed it to change my life, to consume some free time, to change myself.
The ammount of work in it had been insane at some points.
Never did i ask for money to all the members who joined that guild in the past.
Neither will i ask money to those who join it in the future.
And why, because it is for fun.


I cannot demand you to stop asking money for your creations, neither do i want to.
But think about this the next time that you put your new earned money in your pocket;)

Anyway, you did a great job on all that terraforming. 

Greetings!

Well said my new friend, I agree.

You're right. A right map is one of the most important things on a server. If the owner makes money on it, the author of the map should receive his or her share. That's the only fair thing to do.

On the other hand if the map is used on a small server with no commercial interest I would give it for free. It's just the case that I understand that many people would feel very bad if somebody was making money on something that they put so much work and love in. Casting all the thoughts about community, the fun of making a map etc. you have the right to feel cheated if somebody just makes money on your stuff and doesn't show any basic gratitude (or any at all).

I wouldn't take money for terraforming or building because I ain't do this for money / I do it because it's fun to make maps and the best payment is when you see that people are happy with your build

Well I do agree that you should get earnings for creating custom terrains, especially if they're quite large. For me however, I enjoy terraforming. When i'm bored I just sit down and practice. The one thing I like the most, is that every terraform makes you a little bit better. As long as people enjoy what I create I don't require money. I just want people to enjoy my work.

Agreed :) However i also agree with prototype (comment below). I sometimes will do builds for free for some people if they are a friend or i know i can really trust them. Also it it really nice to get paid. Like really nice. But if your having a lot of fun doing it, sometimes its just better to do it.

Its good that you made this article though. Terraformers really do deserve more cred than theyre getting and more pay! :o lol

I think if someone offers you money for it, fair enough.

but to be honest, if I'm doing something I love, I really couldn't care less if I'm not getting paid for it, I mean I've been known to spend a week or so on a single model (my own area of expertise,) and at no point did I ever think "I should be paid to do this", I was just happy people used it and enjoyed it.

That and I couldn't sell armbands to a drowning man but whatever. But I'm not a world painter so I can't comment on the process you go through to make things, but from what I gather it can be tedious, perhaps more so than Techne/TMT modelling (which I can say get's very tedious).

i would never ask for a reward, but to be honest, if someone offered me one, I'd take it as well, I really don't see why people could complain about that.

As a hardcore Terrafromer, I can sympathize. Too many people are underappre4ciative of the hours and hours spent, getting all the trees in the right places, and the mountains to look real and majestic. The 'Shading' effect using different stones... It is an art. Not anyone can do it. And only a handful of people are patient enough. 






Diamond to you.   :D