@ThatGuyThere
You could also feasibly do what VtM: Bloodlines did. Have a section represent an area, but only have the 'main thoroughfare' playable, in order to have things be iconic, and allow temprooms or something to represent things that are in that area, but aren't permanently built.
@DnvnQuinn
That might be TOO big. You can break it down by neighborhoods or groupings of neighborhoods. So for example, you would have Manhattan and then it's divided into rooms like...:
Manhattan - Alphabet City
Manhattan - Midtown
Manhattan - Hell's Kitchen
And so on and so forth, linked appropriately in whatever east/west directions, but never in divisions as small as specific cross-streets. New York has the problem if being f'ing huge though, and a cursory glance at neighborhoods makes me go 'welp, that's a lot of rooms'.
@DnvnQuinn
There might be a compiled executable of your codebase of choice out there. I know there are for PennMUSH.
Hmm.
I think Theno's Github has most everything? https://github.com/thenomain
Alzie has a cool boon code that was used on RfK that requires SQL at https://github.com/ccubed
Maybe check Gwen's Site, she has a bunch of code archived? http://www.gwen-morse.com/wiki/index.php/Gwen's_MUSHcode_Archive
I'm actually more surprised someone hasn't just done all of the install, included a readme/help file, and then stuck a database with all the stuff in it up on the internet somewhere for startup games.
It depends on what you want.
You can always find some cheap free hosting and use their stuff; I've seen many in weird places that come with things similar to a cPanel. You get a server and you can install stuff via FTP or stuff like Installatron. Most free hosting is going to limit you to things like subdomain.domain.ext, and
A local LARP uses wix.com, which I think is free. Their site is pretty (http://lexgaming.wix.com/kindredvoodoo), and it doesn't seem too difficult (I think they have customizable templates)
I have my LARP and MUSH wikis hosted through skynethosting.net; I have had 99.9% uptime (I think the most I was down was about 2 hours during a moron's DDoS attack), I get good FTP access and shell access, the server is a good speed, it has true cPanel and things like Softaculous (which you can one-click install the latest Mediawiki or Wordpress, for example). I play like $12/6 months due to a recurring discount, and get 2 gigs (more than enough right now) and 100gigs of bandwidth.
This site you might try, http://mwzip.com/mediawikihosting.htm, it has a free mediawiki basic level (very few extensions, but enough to use), and a $5 setup/free after that pro version that lets you install extensions and you have full FTP/SSH access. You can also use your own domain (I recommend namecheap.com for that; I have my two domains registered through them).
@DnvnQuinn
New York, but don't get into street-level minutiae. Build the boroughs and neighborhoods and set them up in areas; don't do 'A and 1st,' do 'Alphabet City' and such. It makes doing things on grid, and mapping as a staffer, so much easier.
I just finished Spartacus: Blood and Sand.
I kindof want a Rome game cribbing from that, screw historical accuracy. Give me a combo of that, plus what Marius and Pandora talk about in their Anne Rice books, plus 300, Xena and Hercules. There, I'm happy.
@Derp
And this is why I advocate either using cities you know real well, or making something up whole cloth that makes SENSE when you put it into place.
@Coin
I'll keep that in mind. Probably tonight plus tomorrow before my partner and I go do Hunger Games.
Also, for anyone like me who is a fan, the first chunk of Digimon Tri is up on Crunchyroll.
@Coin
That's my plan for tonight after LARP.
Jessica Jones.
So looking forward to it.
@Miss-Demeanor
Totally unrelated but 'coffeehouse beaniks' never fails to make me think of this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih9hH0Z5hGU
Also...
@Sundown
Are you accepting this?
@Warma-Sheen
I think a lot of it boils down to a reward of some sort for participation. I like my XP too, but having hundreds and hundreds is crazy (anecdotal: I recently had about 200 XP to spend on a Changeling in the Lost LARP I'm part of. He was rounded where I wanted/needed him to be, so I bought some attributes and then jumped my Wyrd to 6, because I had nothing else to spend it on and the character HAD been spending a lot of time doing Wyrdly stuff).
I'm an advocate of staggered XP, XP caps per <X> period (like per month) and XP floor so that people come in with a chunk. I've found these three things to work out really well.
I'd love to see a game set in the 80's drawing inspiration from things like American Psycho, The Wolf of Wall Street, Cruel Intentions, Igby Goes Down and such things that present a dog-eat-dog high society world? Everyone is of the super-rich elite and it's a non-supernatural game of politics, backstabbing and who is screwing over who.
That or true post-apocalyptic supernatural ala Vampire Hunter D.
Also, getting the deal I was hoping for on new space for the LARP since we're trying to move away from campus.
@Cobaltasaurus
The Amaranta di Augusto name sounds familiar. We probably snarked at each other on email. 
@Cobaltasaurus
Perhaps. I used to go to a lot of MES conventions. ICC 2006, 2007 and 2008. SCaRE 2009 in New Orleans and ICC 2009. EClipse 2006.
I played Aaron Bourke Savage in the first Requiem chronicle in 2006, and Mr. Black in Lost from its inception.
@The-Tree-of-Woe
I just can't bring myself to get back into the MES. I don't have the time to do the traveling I used to do, which is one of the big draws of the MES. I used to have tons of fun in the NWoD venues in the MES back in the day though (in Requiem starting 2006 I was part of the infamous House Savage, in Forsaken I was one of the founders of the Wound-Divers proto-lodge and in Awakening I was somehow involved in the introduction of Lost into the world).
Though I will be going to the Masquerade by Night in New Orleans this coming fall.