BYOND is very much a market economy, because there are few people who can do every task required to make a game (ie coding,graphics, icons,turfs,mapping) there is often an issue of incentive in trying to bring people to work for your game. Ive seen people get paid on a per frame basis for icons because theres so much demand. I find that this is a fantastic part of byond, every single person at one time or another has decided to make their own net dream, and that is the entire point of this community. Heres the problem, we cant do it on our own! So the incentive issue comes up. Its a strange thing, for in game content to be considered of significant worth to people. However necessity is the mother of invention, and the GM has some noble roots as peace keepers. In fact, many people have gotten personally offended by my no GM policy, Ive had KingofSlimes spam GOA relentlessly trying to prove a point that gms are required, of course he was ip banned after the in game system muted him. So we have 2 arguments here, 1. Gms are required to regulate the game and 2. Gm positions are the only reward available to pay off an iconer/mapper/coder what have you.

Heres where GOA's model differs from most Anime games, because the game is interesting in that it is different I already have an edge. Having a WOTS rip is going to set you back really far in finding help, if you dont have an interesting concept or skills to put on the table yourself then your in trouble. However I was able to squeak out the GOA Closed Alpha by myself. Having a proof of concept helped bring together an entire team, and I had to decide how GM's were going to work. I decided, the BYOND accepted belief that GMs are needed is garbage. You should only have one encompassing title for anybody worth putting on your hub page, "Developer". If somebody is contributing to your game then they deserve the Credit, which in and of itself is great. Having credit with a good game will help them later when they decide to make their own dream and need to hire effective staff. Also there are plenty of ways to reward people for working with your project. My favorite is positions. In any Anime there are special positions that have a huge demand. In Naruto you have clan/village/organization leader, in bleach you have the Squad Captains and in Dragonball be creative, the saiyajins have always worked in a hiarchy and theres no reason why you cant emulate that in a BYOND game. Not only are popular in game group positions a great reward for people and incentive to help, but people appreciate these institutions. Having villages makes a Naruto game more fun, having missions and ranks makes the game have a purpose. Just because you place a developer in a position doesn't mean they cant eventually give it up or switch it over, the idea is that the initial positions are prioritized to people who have earned it. Thats my advice to anybody making their own net dream, GMs cause trouble, look at the number one Anime Game right now and its description. You can tell SOC had a problem with a GM, and after running Dragonball Gekisen for 3 years i can tell you Ive seen perfectly nice seeming GMs abuse power and have random emotional breakdowns that end up costing a few people their character, or worse they destroy the balance and integrity of your game. If you want to trust somebody with moderation powers, the mute button is often more than enough. If you code the mute verb to save the offenders key to a world list then mute avoiding is incredibly difficult and not worth the spammers time. Please stop letting perfectly great projects lose their luster by allowing morons to have authority over your players. They play the game for fun, why should they have to deal with some cocky 15 year old with a ban verb and a bad sense of humor.