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For real. I thought I had already become a good typist chatting between commands in Starcraft but MUDs took it to another level.

Same here, but I found Achaea incredibly toxic with its pay-to-win mechanics and hostile playerbase.

I didn't find the playerbase very hostile at all -- although I wasn't involved in most PVP combat activities, which IIRC is also where most of the "pay to win" is focused.

(never did save up enough to buy wings, though)

I had a character that led one of the cities and a couple of different orders for a while there.

I would never have the time for it now that I'm a bit older, but I had a great time and probably played for 6 or 7 years in total.

It's 100% where I learned to code and to coherently structure ideas and arguments.

Quite a lot of PvP, city scale and 1v1. Loved it.

It was a combination of MUDs and IRC that did it for me.