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You can't compare buying ingame perks that are necessary to play competitively against other players to the hosting upkeep costs all MUDs must endure.
Donations are not the same thing as credit-buying. Free-ware computer software gives you a final product, and accepts donations for their service. Share-ware computer software gives an incomplete, or somehow lesser product for free, and requires you to pay to receive the full, flawless product.
IRE MUDs are more akin to share-ware, whereas most MUDs are more alike to free-ware. In this analogy, you can see how it would be misleading to advertise yourself in the same way as free-ware, but to infact be share-ware. To play competitively in IRE(and some other) MUDs, you must buy or barter for cash-paid-credits.
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