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I'm not familiar with Elysium but probably because a requirement to pay is a barrier of entry that is hard to overcome with the marketing budgets most muds can afford. Giving people the option to pay and speed up progress in certain areas of the game is a way of maintaining a commercially viable environment while removing that barrier to entry. It's also a way of allowing people who have jobs and families to compete with people who don't. Time is just as much a resource as money and just as ooc, remember.
--matt
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