Ice Meto
Deadly Cold
I played xazoria.net (or whatever its name was) and they had a real clever system of earning money.
What they did was the following:
As soon as a character has not logged in for longer than 1 month the character was automatically put on the auction list.
The auction list could be found on the website at which new (& current) players could buy those characters so that they did not have to start all over.
That server had approximately 400 active players (or less) and it was a huge success.
I'm suggesting that you could use this money to put in your pockets or invest in (e.g. stability of)the server.
Either way; you get rid of all the "help me I am hacked posts" because characters would be auctioned on the website rather than being traded on the forums. And if players would not want their characters to be auctioned they simply login once a month.
What they did was the following:
As soon as a character has not logged in for longer than 1 month the character was automatically put on the auction list.
The auction list could be found on the website at which new (& current) players could buy those characters so that they did not have to start all over.
That server had approximately 400 active players (or less) and it was a huge success.
I'm suggesting that you could use this money to put in your pockets or invest in (e.g. stability of)the server.
Either way; you get rid of all the "help me I am hacked posts" because characters would be auctioned on the website rather than being traded on the forums. And if players would not want their characters to be auctioned they simply login once a month.