Hmm, heard about LS when I was in Black Pearl when it was text based... looked at it and refused to play, got kicked out of BP eventually... then when the game evolved with HC and other things... started playing without any instruction from anyone... HC... died a few times, got bored (mind you did not join any Guild) ... tried SC for a little... found the game boring as fuck... but the experience did give me inspiration for gaining Prof and building ranks to make a better character, so carried on after deleting a lot of toons even on SC, joined Kirby and found inspiration from them, Nev, Jlhromeo, ILegit and others... got to rank 10 in swords on SC before doing my first MQ and got carried in a group where I was invited by L3dder to be tanker using just Vitality MQ gear... those days were good, if a person died in the group, the whole group was dismantled and had to remake game and you could NOT shrine in town (Basically going from level 1-MQ without towning like doing the current MM).
So in retrospect, my Guild members was my inspiration and the help of some old school players to CONTINUE with LS.