Bertil suggested commercial or semi-commercial PBEM as a possibility
of evolution for MT. Interestingly, a couple of my friends here
suggested that same thing last week. I declined to even attempt
it with MT, for a number of reasons I'll outline.
First, these friends participate in a D&D-like PBM tournament thing,
for which they pay-by-turn. The people who run this use a modified
DOS system to create character match ups and evaluate combat -
essentially off-line, and then results are posted. They make money
doing this in just the Portland area.
It would work with MT. Certainly not with me running it. I
don't want to so severely constrain characters actions, make
such a small subset of involvement.
We have about 40 people, all over the world, playing in a _free_
PBEM. This tournament thing has >100 in the Portland area.
It just wouldn't pay. At least not the way we're doing it.
Finally, I guess Bertil is right. I'm not sure that collectively
you could pay me enough to want to do this full-time. :=)
(i.e. you guys are doing a good job *playing*.)
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Pax Electronica. Propogate.