I think it would be a great and intelligent decision to somehow pay scenario designers based on the number of downloads they receive. What would this do?
1. Benefit scenario quality. Designers who believe their time will be rewarded will be pressed to create better and funner scenarios, and those that are better will attract more downloads, profiting the designer.
2. Allow AOKH to actually HIRE people to review campaigns, professionally. If people paid 20 cents a download, ten to the designer and ten to AOKH, the money would come in very fast. I'd already have something like $400. And the money would mean that almost every scenario could afford to be reviewed, and reviewed professionally.
3. Benefit AOKH. Besides reviewing professionally, it would give the web designers some income and more opportunities to work on the site.
4. Make future ES campaigns even better- they are now in competition with the general public.
5. Number of downloads would actually increase, because it's still cheap (20 cents!) and the quality is so much better.
Possible problems:
1. Legal. ES owns AOK, so selling it outside their authority could have bad reprecussions.
2. Huge foreign population. Could they pay in American money, and get paid?
3. Accounting. Say you pay the designer for the first two months' downloads, you still need to count everything up and hand out paychecks.
Well? Whaddya think? ------------------
PBR me ASAP!