Should P2P playerworld owners be.. paid?

[konidias]

I know this might belong in playerworld forum, but I want to get everyones general opinion on it..

Well do you think P2P playerworld owners should be paid? I mean, perhaps a percentage or something depending on the average ammount of players on their playerworld for the month.. say, a tally could be kept.. so for example, if the playerworld does okay for one month, then the total money earned is calculated, and added to their "bank" when the money gets to a certain sum, cyberjouer(sp) could send a check to the owner. (maybe require an age limit or something)

I think this would do wonders for the playerworlds, it would also be more professional, and you have to think, if these P2P playerworlds are getting a lot of people on them, they must be getting a lot of new P2P accounts made for them (or re-upgraded for them) as well.

The more people they get, the more they get paid, so that the owners will actually put lots of effort into making their server enjoyable and trying to get people to upgrade or come play on their server (meaning more business for stefan)


To prevent cheating, the playerworlds could easily be monitored to see if there are like, a bunch of staff idling on it all day, or a bunch of fake npc servers or something..

[Psyker]

some of graal's most talented could easily get rich that way.

[Androk2k1]

I don't know... I mean It'z not like Stefan made them creat servers. They did it on their own for their own.

On the other hand the stuff you said makes sense.

Agrh and last: What a hell is Oasis?

[ArchOwl]

one, simple, word: yes

[konidias]

Originally posted by Androk2k1
I don't know... I mean It'z not like Stefan made them creat servers. They did it on their own for their own.

On the other hand the stuff you said makes sense.

Agrh and last: What a hell is Oasis?

I just figured you know since they ARE getting people to upgrade/re-upgrade their accounts, don't you think they deserve something? Heck, if I got paid for playerworld visitors I would even advertise my playerworld on other sites and get new people to Graal. Don't you think all these lazy playerworld owners would put more effort into their servers if they were getting payed by average ammount of players? Most only have like 3 or 4 people on them now, because they have no motivation.. money would be very motivating I think.

Oh, and Oasis is my playerworld that I'm making.. check the playerworld forum for more info.

[BlKnight]

Great idea! I for one know I would put alot more time into it. But you haven't though of one thing...Co-owners, or more then one owner. Or staff...

[konidias]

Originally posted by BlKnight
Great idea! I for one know I would put alot more time into it. But you haven't though of one thing...Co-owners, or more then one owner. Or staff...

I think perhaps that could be worked out between stefan and the owners...

About the staff though, I guess the owners could decide if they wanted to pay them or not.. and they could maybe do the paying themselves, or have stefan pay them a percentage of their servers profit or something?

[Birdbird_0]

humm, its a good proposition, but I don't think some of the work that people put in their pw's are worth paying them for, some yes, but some no. But it wouldn't be fair if only the owners got it, because, most of the time, its the owners that sit on their butts and watch the team do all the work. I say, its up to Unixmad and other reviewrs to decied that =p

[Xythar]

In theory, this could be a very good system. Then you realize it would mean that the people in charge of Valikorlia would be paid.

[konidias]

Originally posted by Xythar
In theory, this could be a very good system. Then you realize it would mean that the people in charge of Valikorlia would be paid.

Payment would be based on average users per month.. other factors could be worked in, such as quality of the server, server costs, etc..

The payment could be calculated like:

Every hour the number of players for the pw is logged
After 24 hours the average is taken from the 24 numbers
After 31 days (or however many days are in that month) the average is taken of all the day totals.

This would also make it easy to catch cheaters in the system, such as large fluctuations at weird times, etc.

I think the owner would probably want to pay their staff, because I'm sure if one owner pays their staff, the other staff from other pw's are going to demand payment or take their skills elsewhere..

[grim_squeaker_x]

Originally posted by Xythar
In theory, this could be a very good system. Then you realize it would mean that the people in charge of Valikorlia would be paid.

I though the new one up was a free server?

[konidias]

It's not like stefan would have to pay them often, if say for example, the sum had to get up to 100 dollars or something for them to send the payment. I mean just look at the number of people on the servers.. (1 being the npc server) I don't really think this is what you call a good use of servers.

edit: lol and the 1 other person on Andor is an RC (rc's would be factored out as well)

[Xythar]

Val is UC, but I'm pretty sure it will be P2P. If you've been to there, the makers should be fined, not paid.

[BlKnight]

Yes very true...it sounds like a very good system. And it would really be no loss to Stefan or Unixmad. I mean, if the PW does horrible, the owners get like a dollar. But, if they do a nice job, it could add up quickly...and if they do a nice job, more people upgrade accounts. More people upgrade accounts, more money. More money, no loss, instead massive gain.

[Shorty2Dope]

I like your ideas.. Someone should talk to stefan and work it out..