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Originally Posted by WanDaMan
These new servers would inspire players to jump on board and help when they start seeing content from other servers on a regular basis.
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They don't have to be on the playerlist for that. Just because they don't show up on the list of playable worlds (for good reason, they're not playable!) doesn't mean they're completely unknown. People who can develop will see hiring threads on these forums without low tier UC servers cluttering the playerworld list. People will get inspired to work on playerworlds so they'll eventually be able to get hired on UN and the like, as they do now - even if it is ultimately a waste of time on their part.
And not everyone on Graal is a developer, or even interested in developing. Multiple servers that are nothing but money farms for Eurocenter and places to draw new players into getting hired aren't going to be very good for the majority of the players, who will most likely want to stay on the already established servers that they've spent a lot of time on (playing; not developing). Which is why the PWA should be more dedicated to the servers we have now, and Graal as a whole should focus on them, rather trying to be something it's not (a dev. platform and not a game).
If anything (just spitballing here), heavily UC servers should be hosted on the owner's computer, that way Eurocenter can't ever pull the "gosh, it's so expensive to host everything!" card. The tools to actually host a UC server on the owner's own machine and allow Graal accounts to connect to it, those should cost money (gelats?). If the server's good enough and draws enough attention post-development, Eurocenter should be "purchasing" it from the owner (whether that's with gelats, money, or some other stipulation) to host themselves, or if the owners want to get it attention themselves, they should be purchasing a hosted playerworld slot. IF the former option was taken, then put the PWA on watch to make sure the server keeps doing what it did and changing management if need be.