[Tyhm]

's a good point. Mind, I wasn't trying to push a specific agenda; I'd like to see more cooperation, but how that happens is subject to debate. Besides, if Dead Servers are fair game, it might encourage underhanded and disenchanted developers to kill the server so they can get their stuff back.

Should they be allowed to rebuild a similar thing if they work for another server? I doubt they could be prevented from so doing, and regardless such a case enters the dangerous territory of Intellectual Copyright - nobody else can make a superhero server 'cause I thought of it first.

Should servers be given monopoly over their proscribed genre? Would it be better/worse if, when each PW is registered, they go on a big registry:
GhostPirateOnline - Pirate MMORPG
Classic - Zelda 3 adaptation
Zone - Future Matrix World
Bungee - Bubble Bobble adaptation
, and then when you want to make your own Zelda 3 Adaptation you're told "Nope, already got one a them?"

I think mostly my question is, when you've got two small teams who each want to make a practically identical server - particularly when neither team's big enough to make it on their own - how do you encourage them to team up? If they both make one world, who's the manager? If they're co-managers, how could disputes best be resolved?