You don't pay for clockwork, only whatever schemas or serials you decide to buy. In order to make a schema, you'll need a serial key that costs $20. The database thing you're talking about is CloudAuthX, which verifies the serial when the server starts.how the fuck do you develop for clockwork?
call me stupid, rate me dumb or w/e, but i can't find how to make schemas for it
all i come up upon is people saying you need a serial license that you have to pay for (to edit a roleplaying base you've ALREADY fucking paid for) and it has to be connected to some fucking database or some shit which is already dumb as hell