Historical note: although never a great success on On-line, a small community of players did build up there over the years. The main problem was that Dragon charged lower prices, so the real addicts who played On-line MUD switched to there after a while. Since it was MUSE's hardware that the game was running on, though, this didn't really bother On-Line much, and relations with them remain very amicable. the game was only removed because the box's hard drive finally gave up the ghost after running non-stop for 4 years. Days later, On-Line became On-Line plc, they got tons of publicity, and none of it could be directed towards MUD2. Why do these things always happen?