Well, this has been a dream of mine as long as i started pondering ideas in relation to video games, i had seen Grand Theft Auto 2, then 3 and more, ARMA and all these simulators that i thought were quite amusing and while they sort of captured the idea, none of them were satisfactory.
I thought it would take decades to allow my idea to be technically possible, but here's Outerra, being awesome.
My idea is fairly simple, it's a sort of technocratic world simulator. I'll have to explain.
First, you start off in a world completely empty and devoid of any form of technology, states, cities etc. It's just people. These people then gather resources, craft them into productive items to start industry and declare land as their own, forming cities, then later states.
The leaders of these states could set permissions specific to a group of people, an example would be allowing the state to build roads, or everyone, or specific productive entities (like in-game companies) and the same could apply to anything else.
To write laws, people assigned to write laws must use a scripting engine to define what the terms of those laws are. If somebody reports some one for a violation, it refers to the scripting engine and if they have violated a law it then alerts the authorities if any at all.
There could be entire nations, armies, police, road systems, railways, plane systems and etc. based off of this system alone. Back to crafting, resources should be accumulated in the same way they are in real life. People mine for it, drill for it and so on. It would be a race of technology and advancement and allow people to stick together and build their idea society.
It would also have local squabbles, wars and so on.
The basic idea is to let a massive amount of players loose on this completely open, script-able world and build the world as the world today was built.
People are granted one account per life, if you die that's it (goes for people in the army, police, politicians, citizens - everyone). You could remove things like hunger, fatigue (because people do have real lives too) but otherwise people would be completely left to their own devices to accumulate wealth in the world, run nations, businesses, political parties and so on.
I basically want a complete real-world simulator, the worst of things and the best of things combined into one mega-planetary MMO. You could be a policeman enforcing the law, a member of the army going to war, a politician writing laws (ideas for laws anyway, script writers would have to write them ultimately), a shady black market weapons dealer, political radical, businessman, construction worker (custom modelers who could submit their works?) or any combination of the above.
That is my dream, yet to be realized and probably won't be until long after I'm dead
What do you think?
(It should be mentioned there is games like Wurm online which captured a fair amount of this, people gather resources and clear land full of trees and stone to build roads, houses and later other productive things. Pretty fun but set in another reality and incomplete)
