On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Jessie Evangelista wrote: .. > > into legal trouble with Level-Up. Running a private RO server for your own > > cafe makes commercial sense, too -- but running a private RO server for > > yourself -- seems pointless. > > As usual, Orly hits the nail on the head. I've been running a private RO > server on my lan shop for a few months now. My daily income shotup like > crazy. I'm now contemplating on running a public free RO server.
be careful about that public free RO server. just because you can, doesn't mean you should. LevelUp reps in Cebu have been going after cafes who run their own private server. remember -- gravity has no legal personality here in the Philippines, but LevelUp *DID* license the *CLIENT* from them and has exclusive territorial rights. so the client is free because of LevelUp's *agreement* with gravity. so even though running a private/publicfree RO server is not illegal, *USING THE RO CLIENT* on that server violates LevelUp's rights. i'm not saying don't do it, i'm just saying -- because I've thought of this myself many times -- a publicfree RO server is only gonna be fun if it has lots of players. if you don't have lots of players, no fun. monster spawn too fast. BUT you can't get lots of players unless you publicise your server. conundrum... > ey orly, what are you playing with? yare? athena? aegis? yare seems to work best. but i haven't been playing for quite some time. the novelty of RO has worn off. waiting for WoW though. :) --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
