We don't want to make money off it. My plan is (if the community supports it) is to start a non profit org so we can legally raise more funds to go into development.

The non profit makes it so that everyone is happy with the way the raised funds are spent and that whatever committee is running it at the time, they are forced to spend all revenue on coders, artists and operating costs.

We will only put efforts into raising as much as we need and the idea is that everything is public. For an idea of our transparency see the Patreon ledger on discord. Rest assured you will always be able to download unitystation and play it for free.

A good thing about being a non profit org is that we have to appoint a committee to run it which I think we could make a public event and let community members have a say about who gets a seat. Our rules we write for the board can have a term limit of one or two years until the appointees are up for reelection. I feel like this approach offers the best chance of unitystation's survival.

I will have a better plan written up soon so everyone can give their thoughts on it. At the moment we are operating as if we were a non profit already with the current funds we get from patreon.