Petition to bring back the old playerworld system

[Inverness]

I believe the current system of renting playerworlds is choking the life out of Graal. There are so many playerworlds around now that there are simply not enough developers per playerworld to get any work done.

I believe Zodiac is the only classic playerworld to come out of the new playerworld system and go somewhere. I dunno why Zodiac is the exception but the number of successes since this system was introduced versus the number of successes before it should be a big clue-in about how well its working.

Nowadays almost everyone who thinks they have a good idea and wants to put time into something goes out and rents their own server instead of contributing to an existing one. And even if this person wants to contribute to an existing one, there are so many servers and so little good ones that their efforts go to waste.

The hosted tab seems to have little long term benefit as, again, Zodiac is the only server that I know of that has gone classic.

The best possible thing that can be done in the short term to try to save Graal would be to roll back to the old playerworld system so staff can be concentrated into a fewer number of servers so they all have a better chance of making it somewhere.

Edit: Most importantly people should not need to pay for a gold account to be able to work on these playerworlds.

Edit 2: WhiteDragon suggested I detail what the "old playerworld system" is, so here we go.

Basically, instead of people renting servers on their own and trying in vain to gather a good development team that can get things done in any reasonable amount of time, it would be required to already have a decent amount of content established beforehand before you could request a free server (evaluation required) to bring your content online and kick things into next gear. Of course in the generation of GS2, you can not really do that kind of stuff offline anymore, so a server like Testbed would be required to allow budding projects to develop to the point where they could obtain their own server. Basically this means that any under construction servers are already guaranteed to have a good amount of content--the foundation--in place. Developers interested in contributing could know that the server they're working on has already passed one level of evaluation and is most likely going somewhere.