This game has in deed been around for ages, and I was into it for a while just because I would have fun roleplaying with my friends. Beyond that though, there's nothing to it at all. I don't know whether the admins, or guides as they call themselves, just don't know how to code or coded little with the intent of making people roleplay, but the end result is that it's a framework for rp with no people to do the roleplaying. The only way to actually generate income without getting a player run job is, yes, panning for gold, which I did until I had millions of dollars stored away. The combat system was completely rp based. I wasn't a huge arena fighter, so I'm not sure of the exact commands, but I remember sparring (fighting players without hurting them) involved rolling virtual dice and emoting what your character did based on what happened. Real fighting was basically the same thing, but the dice looked slightly different, the players would lose real health, and obviously your emotes would be different depending on whether or not you had a weapon. Some systems are cool. The smart phones and computers are pretty extensive and remind me of miriani. You could watch random tv shows on your phone or television, take videos with your camera and print documents with your computer if you bought a printer. You can even where a headset and talk to people on the phone without taking it out of it's case. The bank system was pretty realistic as well. You could either go to an atm in the city you are in and just deposit or withdraw, but there was a limit of 50k for withdrawals, or you could go to the bank itself and, in addition to unlimited withdrawals, you could set up things such as recurring payments to other players. The language bit was another cool thing, but it was made very very not cool by the daily contest which was not a contest at all. Rather, it was a daily reward for playing the game. All you did was press d on the log on screen, and you would get a random reward of cash between $2000 and $100000 or different colored vouchers which could be exchanged for instant fluency in a language. A loyal player would soon find him or herself knowing 15 to 20 languages after a couple of months. I'm not even sure how one would really learn a language. The helpfile said something about university classes and such, maybe taught by npcs, I don't know.
So yeah, very stupid, very dead game. If you're not an rp fan, skip right over this one because that's all this is. If you are, go ahead and create a char, but you'll probably be disappointed by the lack of enthusiasm or just generally the amount of people interested anymore.
