[dreaminvm]

Amazingly this summarizes my teenage years with Runescape.

Not only did I pick up botting and development of a private server, but I learn a lot about how virtual economies worked and how to maximize value buying small quantities and sell in bulk in Varrock.

[Lxr]

It taught me so many things as well. One that comes to mind is after they introduced the Grand Exchange, “merch clans” became popular running pump and dump schemes on random items. Unsurprisingly the only people to actually get rich were the people who bought before the next item was announced, i.e. the insiders who actually decided the items. This has many parallels in the real world!