The new PBW

[psimancer]

dimes to dollars sfi would want to create a pay for play model and a rival pbw server which would be detrimental to the community IMHO it might be feasible when the communiy of pbw players exceeds 100k like the mmorpg ultima online
however the drawbacks to the community are multiple in such a model
and so far we have no track record from sfi to base trust upon regarding such a move

therefore i feel it is a better move to continue our efforts in the community and to provide support for THE pbw server
my only hope would be to be able sometime in the future to be able to setup a backup server operating in sync over the web with the prime so that the prime could go down for a hour or two then come back up resync and be back in business and all be seamless to us the users maybe even separated by a state or 4 thus one net outage wouldn't mean complete server loss (

twould also be nice to have a qoute secondary processor for the server such that it could offload game processing to the secondary processor in a queue thus long processing games could be run by secondary processor and short run games could be processed on the primary server processor but this would take some interesting programming