I have recently realized that TPT will, inevitably, go dark. This game has no source of income and is coming out of the pockets of 5 people, or rarely some donations. So, to avoid this inevitability, I have plans for a last resort. When the servers go dark, everyone will have their own program, this is the magic of TPT, you can still play it even when it dies, just no more community. But, who says that even when the servers go dark, there is no more community?


        TPT is a relatively small game, only 10 Megs if you use hard drive storage for some of your favourite saves. And the internet usage is very little. However the online save aspect is enormous, mainly being flooded with irrelevant hogwash. These factors make TPT an excellent candidate for Peer to Peer networking (P2P) if we can instill stricter rules for saving to get the number of saves down to manageable levels, we could handle this. The aspect is simple, you would save your creations on your hard drive (For those of you who do not know how to do this just hold down Ctrl while using the standard save functions.) and have an option to 'broadcast' it. TPT is amazingly fortunate to have users all over the world, as time zones would not be an issue. However users across the world have significantly slower internet than a central server.

       However, as mentioned before, the internet speed will not be much of an issue. Turning the instant download of a save into maybe 10 seconds at most, much better than never. People can also elect to save other saves onto their own computers, with a storage limit variable option, and can act as a small server, this can run in the background of the PC not using much processing power. We will have people with toasters who are solely users, people with decent PCs who will have 50 Gbs or so of saves, and the amazing people who will use their cluster computer to help. This will be quite a feat to program, and I understand if you ignore me. Connections will be spotty, however it is much better than nothing at all.


       This will hopefully never happen, as we can probably be funded by donations from our very expansive user-base. Or the potentially deep pockets from one developer or moderator. But, if the money stops, and the servers go down, the TPT save base could transcend mortality itself. This is my proposition, would you embark on this journey before it is too late?

Yes, but the adverts give a fairly measly income, and the servers being shut down are an inevitability.