ive been a long time lurker on lomcn mean had a couple accounts previously i always forget my logins though..
so this thread made me feel i wanted to post.. mainly because i feel some level of guilt in that i know that i had a somewhat significant negative impact on the downfall of mir and its once great community.
the biggest root cause of the problem though may have indeed been certain people's willingness to spend rl cash..
however as a teenager i found the money making potential a great incentive to relentlessly cheat and exploit etc.. to some extent as well the feeling of "power" over a virtual world was another incentive.
anyway some people may remember me as LetsHaveAWar? i think Ben would remember me at least. i mostly stayed in the shadows though spamming gold sales 24/7. i remember clearing over £80,000 in the time i was exploiting.. not bragging because i lost it all later on gambling just trying to explain the incentive that the buyers caused.
things accelerated downwards after the infamous halloween exploits.. of which the only positive karma was i gave StuTheBru a free sowg as i felt sorry for him having recently had his taken from pk!
anyway i was pretty relentless and befriending Nick aka VexusDev was real bad news for the game.. as his coding skills in ability to crack mirs encryption made things pretty limitless in terms of exploits.
i even had control of the Gnonline forum account and was routinely deleting anything that might impact gold sales such as threads about duping etc.
terrible...
what goes around comes around so they say, after mir closed i lost every bit of my ill gotten gains gambling.. and thereafter thought hey why not cheat at online gambling instead.... yep i did some prison time for that...
tldr; i wish i could undo my own personal negative impact of the game. sorry