I think I know why the VIP board was made since, you know, I made it.

We do a lot of things to give incentive to people for upgrading to VIP/Gold, and a board on the forum isn't really one of them. No one would pay for access to it, so that's really not a selling point.

Generally you can almost talk about everything on this board unless it has rules

I can't even.

Every board on the forum is subject to the forum rules, except spam (which I'm not getting into this argument, if you know me then you know I think spam is a stupid board). This includes posts, like the ones that were posted to bring all this attention to the board recently, were against the rules, as they would be on any other board. It has no bearing that it was posted in the VIP board.

Okay, should probably respond to this.

Right away, I'll say no, there won't be a moderator rank, and here's why:
We currently have 26 members of our administration staff. Any given week you'll see that maybe 7 of them actually play on HRP for more than an hour. We would be the first to admit that we have a general problem with coverage when it comes to admin playtime, but what I won't say is that adding another group of staff that have less powers, will solve anything.

From what I see when I look at play logs for all players in general, you see the same 60-70 players who play a lot. Of those, the playtime is always the same, a nicely formed bell curve. The person is really into it for about 2-3 weeks, then it becomes a chore just to get on. That's what is wrong with adding responsibilities to a server like this. Very few of the admins will say they want to go on HRP because it just seems like work. Giving any of our current players the same level of responsibility will result in the same decrease in interest. So realize that the reason we don't have more admins isn't that we don't trust people in the community, we do. We just know how annoying it really gets. Everyone always 'asks for admin' without realizing that it just ruins the game for you.

The answer to your problem of 'catching minges' is to record. It's not instant bans, but it should result in less issues. I understand that doesn't help any, but really, what can we do? I'm in works with some of the Lua devs to hopefully bring some more powerful tools to our administration staff that help us act more quickly and decisively on rule breakers, but while that's happening it's important to realize that we're doing the best we can with what we have.

A lot of our staff will probably be restructured when CGRP comes out (depending on its success post-release) and that may result in the need for such a rank if we get overwhelmed, but as it stands, we have more administrators than we really know what to deal with, just no one wants to play all the time.

Good enough to sit my ass on for 12h

12 hours? Fucking casual

Seriously though, how do you get viruses? I haven't had one since I was 10 and downloaded the first exe I found when trying to pirate a game. If you told me you'd give me $1,000 if I could get a virus in the next hour, I'd be out of luck. I have no idea where to find one, aside from research pages. I run MSE, but I've never once had it trigger, common sense must be the best anti-virus.

That just made my life

[ending the quote chain, because it's gay]

BTC* is different from PayPal in that the transaction isn't, or I should say 'doesn't have to be', run through an institution like that. This means, there's no fee for transactions.

One could also say it is more secure. When you enter your credit card online, that company can charge it all they want. If you link a PayPal to a company, they can charge THAT all they want. With BTC, the only two things known about you when you pay is the wallet ID and the amount transferred. So when the website gets hacked, they don't have to say "You may be losing all your money because our database wasn't PCI complient, sorry".

I could make up more benefits for days, but I'm not going to sit here and write a paper on the subject. Here's what made me realize it's here to stay. When I bought my VPN with BTC. I clicked the button, a QR code appeared on my screen, and I got my login info. It took less than 20 seconds to do the whole process.

Like I said earlier, you can get the routing number from your bank or Google it. Your account number will usually be found on your online banking page, or you could just call your bank and ask for that as well.