Google Day #2

Goals:
-Find out how to get a profit from a server?
-Watch tutorial of how different mods can be downloaded, and what they change?
- Find out of stats or polls that show the interest of the "online gamers" in types of maps we plan to ma;e.



How to profit from a server HERE
 This article and most of the articles about the topic talk about how the only real way to make a profit is through donations;however, making a server big enough to get a large amount of donations is very expensive.  in general owners of servers are losing money.

Video of a mod HERE
the mod shows a completely different thing from what normally appears in the game.  some of those things are objects, types of mountains, building materials, that don't exist in the original.  they talk about how installing the mod is very difficult, because it has a lot of mods and so is to use the features of the mod.  its interesting how the mod makes the game more realistic, for example you need to give the planes fuel which first you need to find coal for it to work.  How ever at the end of the video i learned that mods cannot be used in online servers we will not be able to use it in our server if we decide it to put it online.

Info about adventure maps HERE

I learned from the forum that the way most of the maps work is that you put them on the page and then someone downloads them.  if they like it they can contact you or give you a donation to make more.
  today I learned a lot about mods even tough i was disappointed to see that I really cant use them if we plan to make the server online, also i learned that servers aren't the most profitable "business"



for next class I would like to learn how both of us can work on the same serer without using the same computer.