I'm sure this has been suggested before, but why not create an enviornment to allow us to buy/sell mods to the game (Obviously make it so we couldn't just share the mod files...)? I know that I would be willing to shell out some cash for a great mod, and it would surely spawn more great mods that we can only dream about right now. Badspot could even make more cash, by charging some percent for each mod sold. I think that if any mod right now deserving of making cash, it would be RTB.
On a side note, can we charge people to join our servers? If so, more people should create awsome servers so that I can give them my cash to pay to play :D.
Just to put this in a general plan.
1. Addons that were sold would not be pirated, becuase the mods would be using a key system like Blocklands
2. Remember that only Addons that are high quaility will be sold, because no one would pay for the lower quality ones.
3. Just because you see that people right now are creating free addons, doesn't mean that there isn't potential for amazing thigns to be made.
4. At most, people who sell addons probley would charge 1 - 5$.
5. Yes, its free to make software. No, its not generaly free to make quality software.
6. If all software was free, we would have less quality and less software.
7. Money is a good motivater.
8. Money means people can use developing addons for blockland as a job, meaning they can make more money, spend more time developing (Meaning more profecciency), and create cool things :D.
9. More cool stuff means our community will grow larger, and more active members will be on.