RE: The Nth Society - A voluntaryist roleplaying game and decentralized project
This reminds me of Life is Feudal, for the players control everything about the game. Admins only get involved if there's cheating. It is not decentralized though. They run clusters of servers per node, and there are 50 nodes. Each node is connected to the other in game, so there's no zoning from one node to another.
With blockchain transaction speeds as fast as they are these days, I have to wonder if a large scale MMO could be made in a decentralized way now. It may be possible. Syncing up multiple players from all over has been the main road block in the past. A lot of big time players have tried large scale games and failed too.
That's what makes Life is Feudal unique. If they can get it to work, they will be the first truly massive MMO with thousands of people on the same "server." They've been in development for 7 years now though, and they only recently released on Steam. The game has a lot of bugs still, and it is definitely not working as well as promised/planned.
I am curious to see what the future brings regarding MMO decentralized gaming! It will be done, and the implications are huge.
Life is Feudal is very interesting game that I myself have been looking at previous to this project. It could take off in a big way.
Our project does not have a preferred historical time and has, in part due to this, no given objects or objectives that would have to / could not be constructed. We are in that sense, not limited to the same extent that Life is Feudal would have to be, but we also do not have the "medieval" appeal that they can market themselves with.
One thing that strikes me here now, is that I would love to test play their game for free, but I obviously can't. However we currently have a lot of money slushing around the "cryptoverse" that can't safely (for various reasons) convert to fiat and this money is just looking for somewhere to finally be put to use. This could continue for many years and it would not be entirely implausible, to see a project such as this take a good sum (even if it's just a tiny slice) of that fund if it was implemented.
Not only that, but ingame we could construct any number of mini games (betting, card games, competitions) crypto exchanges and other business use cases that would allow such money to be spent also in the game itself.
What if this is a game already? :) Have you seen the YT videos about how everything we experience now could be, and most likely is, a simulation?
Mind blown! The thing is ... it doesn't matter if it is.
Agreed! There's still good to do and individual liberty to further.
Yes, we've even touched on this in conversation actually =) "Simulation" or not, the similarities should of course be striking. I should note that, with a somewhat successful implementation the line in my opinion between game world and real world should properly become ever more blurred as time passes.
That reminds me of the 2049 Blade Runner movie. His significant other was a computer program!
Yes, and while I imagine more simple social and business overlap would be the starting point of the transition I imagine, virtual reality is quickly evolving and should certainly be a consideration at some point.
There really are very few limitations given so far, as we are working from very basic principles and no actual code has been produced so far.
We would love to have you and everyone else interested in brainstorming some of these ideas joining our the Slack. We already had a few people joining and there are no special requirements to do so. Anyone can also create their own post with ideas or questions right here on Steem of course, using the nth-society tag or by visiting the Nth Society forum on ChainBB.