my favorite game which I have been playing on and off for around 9/10 years, www.miniconomy.com , has been shut down, why? Because some players in a group disagreed with the decision of the game's administrators and decided to DDOS not only the game server but the private internet of the games owner, Wouter Leenards, and as a result for the first time in 11 years of the game running the "Federals" (admins) exercised Article 15, Paragraph 2 of the International Law

"The Federal Government has at any time the right to end the game or to stop it temporarily."

here is what is posted on the site (the english translation is rather off, the creator is Dutch nationality)

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Miniconomy closed

After 11 years without big interruptions, we pull the plug.

The sad reason for this is that the Miniconomy server has been attacked yesterday (Saturday, January 5), requested by one or more Miniconomy players. We suspect that they disagreed with a decision of the Federals. On top of that, it turned out today the game creator was also attacked on his private internet connection. We think this is an unacceptable situation and therefore we don't see any other solution than to temporarily close the game.

For questions and remarks you can contact the Federals and Wouter via e-mail.

Last update: January 6, 2013 at 16:30 server time

The Federals and Wouter
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I am very saddened today by this, this really was my favorite game and now because of a bad group of players it may not return or if it does it will be some time possibly.

For the return of our beloved Federation and my home country of Virtua