Old Ideas

[cosmiccat]

Once, a long long time ago, I had a crazy idea for a MUSH. I was into Star Trek MUSHes at the time and I liked the ones with economic systems. I wanted a sci-fi world where life was hard and space travel was dangerous - not because space is full of pirates or monsters but because strapping yourself into a tin can attached to a warp drive was

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[ungratefulninja]

Actually, what it resembles most of all is Puzzle Pirates: you need to keep your ships stocked or they fall apart, you're travelling between a handful of questionably-friendly safe harbours across vast distances, and you're at the mercy of the internet's vast population of cave trolls to keep your ship running.

It's a surprisingly effective set of mechanics.

[finamenon]

It sounds like a variation on the Grey Goo scenario. Call it the Green Goo scenario?