The "How Do I Start My Own Chat Site?" FAQ
Several people have asked about starting their own chat site similar to
Wolfhome, or other Chatlands™
sites that they've seen
recently.
That process for owning your own chat site is called "Chatlands™"
and there are several active sites. For example, there's
Mystical Realms
(http://mysticalrealms.net),
Serenity
(http://serenityisles.com),
Eclipse
(http://eclipse.chatlands.com)
and so on. Many of these sites been operational for quite a while now.
Currently the process of starting and running a chat site is FREE. It is
still a "work in progress". I work on updates (and bug fixes) to this
when I find time to do it, but the reality is that there are still problems
from time to time and I fix them just as soon as I can.
Soon we are going change the way the costs for chat sites are
covered. At that point, it will cost 1 delta per day to operate a basic
chat site. This cost is offset by any subscriptions that users have on
that site. So, if the site has enough paid subscriptions, the site will be
free to operate. There will be additional delta costs for having more than
a certain number of administrators on the site (which would be needed only
when the site has a lot of members, so again the costs should still be free
in almost all cases).
Right now setting up a chat site is still being handled on a "case by case"
basis. I intend to post something on the Wolfhome home page and on the
Wolfhome forums (and possibly elsewhere) when this is a stable and
automatic process.
So, if you want to start your own chat site, create a map and some rooms.
If you have an Ultimate subscription on Wolfhome, you may want to set up a
'private island' over there. You can then upload a map and connect any
private rooms on Wolfhome to it by placing room dots on the map. That's
pretty close to the same as your own chat site, but people get to that map
from the Wolfhome Dream Isles.
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