The next hurdle the Ixians (and likely the Devos and various others) are looking into is actually making the jump to being "civilisations" since MUDgaard player-accounts are actually owned by "civilisations", the only way the Ixians et al even have the use of any such player-accounts in the first place is some friendly "civilisation" made such accounts available for them to use.

If they can make the jump to forming an actual "civilisation", they will be able to pay General Hosting Corp aka Galactic Holding Corp (GHC) directly rather that going through some actual "civilisation" and thereby also optionally retain the lion's share of the fees in effect due to the paid fees mostly accruing to the value of the GHC "shares" that, as a "civilisation", they will have the ability both to hold and to add into their "official treasury".

Then of course they can start reaping profits also by making such accounts, which in bulk they will be able to get discounts on, available to others.

-MarkM-