I always liked how they got away with cash cosmetics being blatant copies and direct references of other anime/games/movies. There was stuff from star wars, FMA, the matrix, all sorts of things. Dressing up your character in that game was a ton of fun.

What private servers did you play on? I remember playing on one that had coders make neat plugins that added a lot of diversity and mini-events you could participate in. For example, trivia, hide and seek and even fashion contests where people had to follow a theme in an elimination per round show-off.

Geez, now I'm going to go listen to the main menu song again