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I was gonna ask about hosting costs, then I saw "14 players online". I wonder what's the ratio of developer/contributor:player.

• jesusalva 3y ago
  No cost whatsoever: The Mana World is part of a 501(c)(3) public charity and have its hosting costs sponsored by Microsoft and domain costs sponsored by Gandi. You can find that information somewhere in the donation and donors pages of the wiki. The online count is misleading as TMW Classic allows the same user to connect multiple accounts and even home made shop bots, so I wouldn't trust it. Right now there are 15 players online — 5 involved in the project, 5 players, and 5 bots or alts. So a 1:1 rate in overall. And you're welcome to make your own bot for fun and connect it to the game server, but staff will get upset if it participates in combat or otherwise tries to give advantages to others. PS. Only TMW Classic allows multiple accounts per player, but it's been this way since forever. Considering the average player profile, not much surprising that half of players had involvement with the game.