Optimal Splay Games
On this day in 2290, Optimal Splay Games of Foiríäs, Ildathach, held a grand party and press event to celebrate the successful completion, by Torys Kularacen, of the first successful in-game voyage carried through from launch to completion in their debut first-ring game, the real-time Relativistic Freighter Simulator, a feat
worldbuilding
(also, questions from August; and since it’s a slow month, I’m going to throw in some questions from comments, too.) It’s been pretty well established that the eldrae place an immense value on pride and personal achievement, to the point that they hold people in contempt for
economics
Real Money Trade: The problem is that it’s hard to define what qualifies as “real money” versus “game money” when the Mythic Stars MMO alone has an internal economy bigger than some respectably-sized planets. The logical consequences of this apply in full, including the follow-up to the city guards
gaming
You can’t play MMOs on a lighthugger in flight even with access to copious amounts of tangle (or, for that matter, any other theoretical kind of ansible), because relativistic time dilation causes terrible, terrible lag.