Max needs the money to build a fence like our friend Xenophobe here:
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame48.html
Substitute "guest" for "newbie" and you'll understand why Max needs a lot of money. It is because he needs a really big fence to keep us immigrants outside his borders, and the Mudcat safe from foreigners.
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