bit late to the show on this one but have you thought of something like kickstarter to get a game off the ground, you could lay out your goals and how much money you would like to have for them, and you could give donators at the $20 mark a copy of the game for donating (still getting the $20 for the game and can see intrest before really throwing yourself at it) also would say look at steam as well if its good enough to warrent the $20 fee you could put it on there and reach a much wider market, i have found some really good and highly under rated games in the deep areas of steam
, only down side of steam is there is a lot of what people are calling Minecraft clones on there, and while i know RPGWO was around long before minecraft was a thing dont everyone will see this.
as i say know i'm a little late to the party but i really loved this game and remember playing it when it was fisrt ever up when there was only a few sectors and "Big ol' Gray Balls" were an enemy
so i would love to see this game go forward and you to actually get some money from doing something we all love