Yep I got started with programming with SCAR and on srl-forums with SRL as well. Was really fun.
Using SCAR and making bots was my intro to SVN and the concept of importable libraries made by others.
Simpler times. Happier times.
Does anyone remember an article titled "We are the hunted"? I couldn't manage to find it anywhere, live or archived.
Essentially it was about how the ethos of one of those communities (It was Simba when I was around), was not to spam mass bald lvl 3 bots, but to blend in and be essentially undetectable, that the goal was not unsophisticated money but something else.
I'm going to try to find it and get back to you.
There are a few of these history-posts, mostly not lost I don't think, but can be hard to dig up. The old forum is not online very often any more. Most posts including members+ are archived here https://blandtoo.ben.land/srl/
"To blend in among fellow players, cloaked and in disguise; without anybody noticing or rejecting our presence. We fulfill an intellectual challenge; a fun game of cat and mouse. We are the hunted of over three years."
https://web.archive.org/web/20090402125324/http://villavu.co...