Death pays a certain amount to the hosts of his servers every so often. If he wants to add another server to the list, he will pay whatever amount he has to and then that is that. His payment to the host does not go up.
Therefore, if he were to take servers down, that is how he would lose money. He spent X amount on every server so if he were to take it down, that X amount would be a complete waste. At least with the servers that he does have up, for that 1 person who joins, Death is at least gaining a little bit of money from that ad revenue.
Removal of servers: Death loses initial X amount he spent to buy the server
Keeping the servers: Death gets whatever money he does from ad revenue
Never will Death be losing money (unless if he makes more money than he spends).
As for idles, half the servers are Idle/Achievement servers so... Also, a highly bought perk in the shop is the Spam Kill AFK's. Idlers won't be going anywhere. Just gotta deal, I guess.
Events? I highly recommend them. Only admins can hold events though. Many claps to SINS and Biscuit for holding events because no one ever does. I used to think "We need events because they bring people in and are a lot of fun so I should host one every Friday" but then I realized I had things always changing in my life and it was too hard for me to hold an event every Friday. Is it doable? Yes, obviously because SINS and Biscuit do events all the time. Is it likely though? No. Most of the administrators I have ever seen at SwapShop have never done any event.
If people want to have events or crazy fun server types on different maps, all can be done. We have the servers, we have the resources, we have the admins. Anything can be done, and I would highly recommend starting votes or finding maps/game modes you want to see be on the server and test it out for a month or so. It can all be done, just like anything else, someone has to do it.
Plus, if it works out, maybe it will grow the community and turn 0/32 servers to 32/32 servers. Who knows. After all of my time at SwapShop, I know I don't know.
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