So, I've been doing some research...

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anyway, so been looking into the pros and cons of hosting a 24/7 minecraft host. there is definitely room for improvement on Minecraft's part. A lot more problems arise out of trying to keep players from completely engulfing the world in flames! at least in PC, infdev made it so the world didn't have any borders to it. there is also more host control over the world, being able to assign or let players assign to themselves like a land grab chunks of the world to players so they don't infringe on each others' builds.

The worst part is simply the cap on the number of people allowed into a host at one time. As I understand it, the maximum is 8 players per host, including the host player I believe. The host can still kick players from the host so that theoretically, new players can join. The downside would be constant attention to this aspect, especially if people don't want to leave or if your host is open to the public and they can just rejoin anyway.

Griefing is another huge problem. Again, it would suck for somebody like me to have an open host, people join in and out at their leisure, I leave for a sandwich or something for a few hours, then i come back to find the seed on fire and mined down to bedrock. It would require a great deal of trust or naivete on the hosts part to simply allow people free access to a world that either the host, or players who inhabit it regularly, have worked on for hours.

PVP would work perfectly with this model though. Players would just jump in and out, fighting in teams or solo. An idea I had would be that once a week, the host holds a PVP free for all on a random seed. Last man standing gets to host for the week and choose/pick at random whatever seed they want or keep the old one. This way the cost (bandwidth, electric bill, monitoring game for bugs, not being able to watch netflix, etc.) of keeping a host up all the time isn't a sole person's responsibility, keeping the community active and hopefully making people more responsible. It would also be awesome to record these matches and put them on YouTube.

I am still very for doing this, but I still need more people to kinda beta test this thing. I also have to figure out what kind of draw this would have on my or others' bandwidth. I love opinions, ideas, criticism, so feel free to hit me up here or elsewhere you can find me.