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As I and other people have said before. There needs to be benefits to being a graal developer. As to what those benefits would be and how they would be distributed is a job for the graal global management team.

As it stands the only reward for developing your own server is to see others enjoy it and to be able to have some control over the decisions of your server. Though this is a great reward in itself, it's just not enough to motivate a lot of people to go through the pain staking task of creating their own playerworld and sadly such said task has only increased in difficulty with the decreased player count and developer count.

I do not feel that removing servers is a good idea,
atleast not the hosted and classic ones. Why? Because those servers are mostly composed of die hard loyalists. If Delteria was removed, do you think the Delterian developers would pack up and move to another server to work even more efficiently than they did for Delteria? Hell no. Why would they? The only thing that motivated them to get this far was their loyalty to Delteria. With it dead, they'd just quit graal. And there goes atleast 5-10 players, gone from Graal forever.

We need more compelling ideas that promote freedom and creativity (which is what graal is about), not hinder it. we need Global Management support and we need it now.

If you ask me, I think the first move should be to setup an effective network for Developers to be connected (not some distant forums board off game.)
Perhaps something that resembles Xbox Live Gamer Cards, but instead it's "Developer Cards", that would list projects (servers) you've worked on, your talents, in game information, etc. Make these easily accesible in game. Something that can spread throughout all the graal community (Because let's face it, not every graalian bothers coming to these forums.)