[Survey For PBEM GMs] A Paid Service?

From: Geoffrey Harrison <Geoffrey.Harrison@veritechcomputers.com>

Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 08:17:16 +0000

Greetings to all the PBEMers out there!

Our company is deciding whether PBEM GMs would use a PAID service for
advertising and running their games on-line. We're interested in getting
some feedback from the community at large.

Currently, we are thinking about accounts with a cost as low as
possible (e.g. US$5-10 a month) and used to cover admin and bandwidth
costs. Currently, we have the following planned, but are open to new ideas:

* Web Space - A pre-set amount of web space for GMs to post game
information and details about their universe and characters. Empty space
for web pages fully designed by the GM.

* A sub-domain - Make the games easier to find. E.G. a game called
"Shadows" could have the sub-domain "shadows.example.com" for it's e-mail
and web site

* Character Mail Forwarding - Give each character their own e-mail address
which forwards to a real address. If there was a character named "Jonah"
on the before mentioned "Shadow" game, the email would be
"jonah@shadows.example.com". Makes character much easier to mail too.

Also, we are currently thinking about adding a forum for each game, a
directory of all games on the server, new game/player requests, and the
list is still growing. Being a paid service, the server would be
moderated, and GMs would have direct access to Admin as necessary. New
features would be a request away.

We're very interested to get responses to this, both Good and Bad, and are
looking for all the input possible. All views and ideas are welcome.

If we get a positive response, we'll be looking to make the No. 1 PBEM
service on the net.

Best Regards,
Geoffrey Harrison
Senior IT Specialist
Veritech Computer Services

rec.games.pbm

[Survey For PBEM GMs] A Paid Service?

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