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I made it a long time ago and thats the problem.

It happens when you have the l33t script in your header that 'secures' everything.

You could spend $1,000 on an engine, but that is exactly what it would be an 'engine'. - I think for $1k you might be able to get a half playable custom engine that's it IMO

Horizons is a nice engine, just be aware that the amount of modifications available to it is very limited, People use MC simply because it has a huge modification libary, with Horizons you need to find someone who has had experience with it and can proficiently make modifications to it.

Good luck, I'll answer some of your questions. As a start up fund, $2,000 - $4,000 is a pretty decent budget. Q, Who would be interested in working for me on this project? A, As a paid programmer or a 'partner'? Q, How would I pay you so neither of us get ripped off. A, Hire someone you trust! - search around the forums and do a little research on the person you're hiring. And I wish ya good luck again. =)

Well it all depends on what type of game you have I guess, I mean, take Torn for example, they have a typical crime game nothing too fancy just crime so a simple template suits that best, If you have a 'niche' game then you'll have to have a template that accommodates the theme, say for instance a 'apocalyptic' genre will require some kind of template to represent the genre of the game.

Torn is a bad example of a 'clean' template - you can make sexy templates using CSS as same with images, it all depends what type of site you're trying to accomplish.

I don't think it's worth messing around with all those formulae, You might aswell make a new field in the database, "minEXP" - and if the user doesn't have that amount they fail thus making them complete smaller crimes more and more. Changing 47 formulae is a lot of hard work IMO.

What kind 'extras' are you looking for?

<tables> won't be gone for a looooonnnnnngggggg time.

I agree with Dave, moving any crons outside of public_html is definitely a better option.

I believe "seduction city" - Why would a *player* pass the link around without their referral link - It's obviously you or another one of your chums.

It's a great niche, it's like saying that all the mafia/crime games are offensive and promoting violence, It's different and it's 18+ - No problem there.

There is a difference between helping them and doing it for them. All these stupid posts are reallllllyyyyyy annoying me now.

Thanks xD