I want to point out that honest to god, we don't want the flood gates to open from these other RP communities. If we tip over to 'too accessible' (that sounds terrible, and I don't mean it like that) we'll have to readdress a lot more than the technology involved. Our games are all structured, roughly, the same way. You need a staffer for every 10-50 players, depending on how your game is set up, right?
What happens if ONE of these sites that has 10k people or more decides that what we're doing actually looks super fun and becomes a trend? What does that population do to our hobby and how we have things structured? Aside from the technical aspects of it, I reaaaaaaaaaaaally think this particular angle is a discussion we should be having alongside, because we're gonna need solutions if we DO pick up a wider appeal through all of these miracles.
Like, I am quite sure this is going to happen. You guys are smart people. Omg. The amazing things that are being done with our technology and what we have at our fingertips and the utterly just AMAZING AMAZING THINGS @faraday and @Griatch and @rook and @Ashen-Shugar and @ixokai and @Thenomain and @surreality and @Sparks and all of the rest of you guys (I am sorry, I know I have forgotten a few of the heavy hitters, I am still on my first cup of coffee) are doing...we've got solutions in sight. This problem is being addressed, it's making progress, and where we are NOW from where we were even 2 years ago is fucking INCREDIBLE. Ares and Evennia and the magic that Rhost does, the tools I have available to me as a game designer that I did not have the last time I wanted to make a game...fuck, you guys are making SIGNIFICANT progress, especially in the last 10 years or so. We're gonna get this.
What're we going to do when it does explode? I think if that topic doesn't get addressed alongside, we could actually explode ourselves out of existence the other way. ^^