As a business proposition, there is also "strength in numbers", as pointed out in the WoW PServer scene. It may not be as inefficient to share some of his findings as you make out Eduardo. There again, Sandurr has been sharing various snippets with us lately, and I get the impression that he is more concerned about his time being taken up supporting people who really don't know what they are doing than keeping secrets from possible rival servers. (that would be a Suba way of looking at the market
)
There's a couple of things Sandurr needs from the PT community.
- He needs not to be too far ahead of the rest, or rPT becomes a nice big target for legal action.
- He needs not to be contributing the majority of new developments, or he personally becomes the target.
- He needs time to work on his developments, and not to have his time filled supporting new start-ups.
- He needs players to respect what he does with his server.
- He needs other developers not to foster the kind of jealousy which breeds contempt.
We can help him with many of those things, and wish him the best of luck. If we hinder him at any point there, he is less likely to share what he has learned with us.
Please remember that, while he is not a rampant poster, Sandurr has been making posts on RZ, almost since the very beginning. At times, the relationship has been strained, but as far as I'm concerned, he is family. Families are often strained, but they are there for one another in times of need.
I'd like to offer Sandurr our moral support in his time of need. And if this is the best place for his staff to let people know how things are progressing, I'm willing to allow that. So long as it's not "advertising"... I don't really want to see links, unless they are to another post in the
Private Servers section, but any information rPT staff would like to share with players, they are welcome to make here as far as I'm concerned.
It does benefit our development for servers like rPT to exist, and succeed. It does concern other PServer admins if hosts like that are legally attacked. This discussion, be it by rPT staff, players or anyone else,
is of interest to PT developers.
IDK if DK and our visors will "like" that statement or not... but we'll see.