As we know Next Island is undergoing changes (cautiously phrased). What do you think is NI worth? I think it's currently not raking in more than 15k USD/year with a rather falling drift. Considering 30% ROI (as held out by MA for Calypso Land Deeds) you could estimate a value of 50k USD. And that's not including any risk assessment...
I think it will be worth the amount to buy the licences and what ever David Post wants on top for everything that has been developed so far. Does anyone know how much the licence is worth? :)
Yeah I think that was the value.. So with this, and that NI is already a semi working planet, I would say... More then I have.. :D
The 2m is, contrary to popular opinion, not a set number. In fact, MindArk does not need you to make a major down-payment if you want to be a PP. You need to prove that you have a unique hook/story/idea to pull in new players, and that you have the means to support both the initial development and the staff to run a company. The 2m amount is absolutely not set in stone. I'm also not sure there is such a thing as a license for being a PP. You simply receive your share of the generated revenue to MA (50% of the generated revenue, from which MA then subtracts all expenses (server costs, and anything else that MA charges for)).
This must have been a major consideration for all existing planet partners; that MA 'gives them' 50% of the generated revenue but then subtracts their server costs, etc, from that 50%. Is this a condition of the business model? Surely it should be that MA takes 50% of the revenue and then deducts from that their server costs, etc - and then the planet partner takes their 50% of the revenue and deducts their server costs, etc, from their share? The point being made here, it's not as if a PP doesn't have considerable server costs, etc, of their own. But if this really is the business model, or part of it that MA is actually offering, then is it any wonder no more people are signing-up to become planet partners. I think MA wants it both ways...
I think its right that a PP has to hold up its end of the server costs etc. Using the 8x8km "server square" concept (I know this probably isn't how it really works) but just to illustrate. A pp with 5 SS's should have more operating costs than one with 18 SS's. Random aside, I was chatting to my friend from crytek the other day and he told me the 8km limit is actually to do with accuracy of physics using single precision floating point numbers for coordinates, which are preferentially used for speed.
Planet partners are holding up their end of the server costs; their own server costs ;) MA doesn't cover their server costs plus the server costs of the PP, so why the other way round?
From what i have read and heard about. Mindark own the servers thats why the pps have to send the designs and models to Mindark if pps had the servers then they could make changes anytime any where, durp. Mindark servers are in one of those cooling tower building things using Blade HP server units high tech stuff. They dont have them on sight at MA HQ. any one for the math here for the cost to have them in a building like that. Everything is stored in them space and even the planets and they are all connected as one even the loot. Uploaded a PDF to prove it about the servers.
I wasn't talking about the game/content servers - that's obviously MA's, I was talking about the fact that PP's will have their own server or systems costs as well as other costs. MA's server costs should be met by MA and the PP's server or systems costs should be met by the PP. Seems fair to me...
But that's the thing. MA does charge the PP for the servers used. I.e. Assume Calypso uses 20 servers to host Planet Calypso and its associated assets (CND / CP). Assume Calypso has a 25.000 USD turnover in a specific month. MA will take their half from it, and then subtract the cost of the 20 servers. If we assume a server costs 500 USD/month, Calypso will get a payout of ((25.000 / 2) - (20 * 500)) =2.500. Calypso adds a new Space resort which is located on a separate server. Assuming there is no additional revenue coming in, it would mean Calypso's payment will now be ((25.000 / 2) - (21 * 500) = 2.000. (All numbers fictional).
Yes, I see what you mean with this. I suppose on second thoughts that a PP should share some of MA's server costs, but the sticking point I see, is that whenever MA introduces new content, etc, applicable to all 'planets' then doesn't MA's server costs always go up, and therefore wouldn't a PP's contribution to those server costs also always go up ;) Or maybe I've lost the plot a bit here ;)
