I'm suprised noone has said this yet ,but...
Copyright - Sure we are using Sonic characthers and the like ,but, Sega doesn't seem to really mind our fangame that we have here unless we do something like this,
PAY - Pay to play is a no-no as much as I'd really like to host one of these "super servers". I know that it's just for the company you got the machine from and not for you're own personal money uses ,but, come on man do you really wanna risk us having to shutdown this community once and for ALL ?
I love playing SRB2 ,but, if you do something like this there is more of a chance of us being put down for copyright infringement.
Unless you make a deal with SEGA , which I highly doubt will happen.
(For the ignorant: I said that I knew we were already violating the law, by using sonio characthers and other stuff from SEGA. It's just that I fear that it might be WORSE if we start charging for "soecial servers" which I doubt people will use because they don't have the money. Only the olbies or noobhogs will use these servers to my guesses.)