I agree with Kai and Gyoshi here... The playerworlds that are currently online, never followed these rules. The current playerworlds are mostly old playerworlds that have been around a really long time. But let's take Era as an example, as it's new, and seemed to go under these rules. Era comes out, I go on, and I get bored in 15 minutes. Then a week later, it gets reset due to bugs. Now just recently both Angel and Delph have quit working for Era. Era is now in the hands of a person that will probably further destroy it. The fact that it averages over 70+ people throughout the day has no relevance. The server has guns, it has gangs, and it has no applied rules. So it attracts people via other methods.
Oasis on the other hand, is being developed online. Right now Falados is in the middle of scripting enemies for Oasis. That would be HELL to script offline, but easy to do it with a private server. As Kaimetsu has said already, it's just going to inconvenience me and Falados if we have to do everything offline. Surely I sound arrogant saying that Oasis deserves more private time than most playerworlds, but face it, it's pretty much true. Others might be putting forth effort, but they still have the same old Graal graphics, the same ideas that have been done over and over, and the same types of quests and so on and so forth. If you don't believe me, then look at every playerworld review from the last 6 months.
About the level thing. It's ridiculous. MoonGod, you're saying that if somebody makes 1 level that is better than most playerworlds, that they must make 199 more of them? WHY? If the level is already better than most pw's, what is the point? You're just looking at quantity over quality. A 200 level limit isn't going to make a playerworld any better. What's to stop someone from submitting 200 levels of complete crap?
Kaimetsu is right. Stefan should back playerworlds that he thinks stand a better chance at succeeding. Equality should not even be a factor here.
edit: Put it this way. Did 2k2 only have 2 weeks of time to develop itself online? Oh wait, that's a trick question, because it's STILL being developed online.
Maybe we should make Stefan have 2 weeks to complete it or he will have to work on it offline.
Don't say "but stefan is staff of the game!" if you want it to be "even stefan" then all servers would only get 2 weeks of private server time. If Oasis is being watched over by Stefan, doesn't it sort of make it his project as well?