well, in order to help mmowned out more I think some more gold coin features should be implemented.
Note: these are just brainstorms.
More ways to earn gold:
reaching a certain amount of rep/posts rewards you with gold
filling requests (like model editing requests)
making a thread so helpful/popular it gets stickied
more ways to promote mmowned
ways to spend gold:
username change
put back in the old name "glow" color or whatever it was called
rank name change (like how I have the <3, that thingy. but let elites still change it as the please =P)
etc
So yeah.
edit: I relise this isnt really helping mmowned out a whole lot, but it might encourage members to contribute/post [helpful posts] more and help narrow down the leachers/spammers.