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I played a lot of Graal Online in my youth. The fact that the servers were player-made was very unique and gave each server a really distinct feeling in terms of graphics and theme (Personally played on Arkland Empires/AEON and Bravo Evolved).

Playerworlds usually had 25-200 players on at any given time, so the communities were tight-knit and you ended up getting to know everyone eventually, even the staff who were just regular players.

The game encouraged creativity since anyone could become a staff member and help shape the playerworld. Messing around with the level editor and tinkering with Graal's custom scripting language 'GScript' was my first introduction to programming, so it was highly influential for me. Come to think of it, it was also my first introduction to Linux! (Thanks Napo from AEON!)