I was a player from the BETA era, but I stopped playing real MIR in April 2002 after the so called 'big' release failed to materialise at that time yet they kindly continued to take my money!! It was at this time a former player turned GM, 'LouD' was caught cheating and spawning monsters and rares for former guildmates got sacked from his position and then banned....
I beleive, although dont quote me, that it was during this banning of LouD that he aquired a set of 1.4 server files which went onto become the ones which began the distribution and so called 'ktest' era of private servers hosted on peoples own internet connections!!
Around late 2002 i was playing a server called Zion and after that shut down i decided to grab a set of server files from fernys and joined a forum called 'MSRF' or the Mir Server Resource Forum! after several months of messing about and getting assistance off there, they went offline! I cant remember how i heard about LOMCN specifically, i think one of the guys on MSRF mentioned it before they went offline as i was using both forums but I joined here when i was working on the Insane server; however, work and family commitments meant i had no time to give to it and Drugz gave the files to Stan to put online but ive been on & off here for over 8 years now. I still have a set of 1.4 server files which are half completed Insane Server files, however most of the changes I made to the files which were included in the one which went online are lost!!
Bit of a boring story i know, but hey, my two penneth lol!
My ingame name in real Mir was 'Voldamor' and i was in the Fury Guild!
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