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by treebeard901 636 days ago
There were several bugs with MajorBBS and certain door games that allowed people to trade in game credits for BBS time. Trade Wars 2002 had several bugs along the way. One you could script buying and selling a certain ship over and over, which would give you infinite in game credits. Just transfer it over for free BBS time.

Another one set your MajorBBS account to negative credits and had no lower bound. So once you used a door game bug to trigger that, you basically lived like a king because it worked as currency since you could trade credits to other users.

It was mostly to just have free BBS time since I couldnt afford it.