I think on graal people should be able to play offline mode if they have a gold account. The server checks the account and then instead of showing the server list you can pick the amount of players (1 2 3 or 4).
Then i also think that after you do that you should be able to connect to another 2-12 comps and you could play with 1-12 people. One comp hosts the levels and the other downloads them off your comp like we do off servers today. And to save the accounts the host of the mini server would save them as an encrypted file to their comp (not passwords just account names and stats).
This would be similar to X-Box live with the guest feature. Also since one person per comp has to have a gold account Stefan and Unixmad would make more money off gold accounts because more people would want to have this feature.
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