For instance, if I was so inclined, I could open a pool with zero fees and generate a massive following and monopoly of users. At this point, it just seems like "here's a list of pools, and everyone joins the cheapest one".
Kind of like RL.
Not really...because in real life there is more to pools than fees, but In the game, comparing pools consists only of fees. In real life, I have lots of options for mining pools, including some with low, low fees, but I choose one with fees because their features justify it. In the game, every pool has the same general feature set.
In real life, sure pools can come along and undercut fees, but there's so much more to it than fees in real life.
Pools in real life can have forums and unique features or generate income in other ways, like advertising. So a pool in real life might say, we don't have any fees, but then put in ads to subsidize. Or pools in real life can expand to new coins or mutlicoin scripts.
All I'm suggesting is that if pools in the game are going consist of comparing merely fees, I think to entice more investors into the game, there needs to be a way of controlling users coming and just spending .05BTC to run a pool with zero fees for the hell of it.
It remains to be seen if there is any kind of marketing advantage to running a pool on MinerFarm. So far I have not seen any additional users to NastyPool in real life, so I assume the advantages are most likely not worth the ongoing fees. You never know though... As we march towards lower fees and increased pool competition, I am curious how things will pan out.
NastyPool is once again the lowest fee pool in MinerFarm.
My technician is the best on MinerFarm! 
I will not judge you but I only think it is strange. 
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