06-14-2013, 11:54 AM
If anyone wants a dynamic 3D sim, I would recommend Wurm Online. Before I describe it I want to preface my post with a PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK warning! It's very engaging if it ends up being your type of thing.
It's an MMO, a world totally player run, with economies, houses, towns, empires, etc, built from literally the ground up from the player base. The world starts as a blank map with mountains, lakes, oceans, deserts, forests, etc, and it's completely able to be manipulated. If you want to spend your days chipping away at a mountain until it's gone, you have a lifelong task. If you want to build a humble farm and tend to crops and keep animals for minor propagation, you can do that too. If you want to play a "rogue" and go pilfer abandoned ruins from players long past, this can be very fun! The game is free to play with a premium element that becomes necessary once you get more involved, but it's entirely possible to do odd jobs for others or find a niche in the market so you can make your own wealth to pay for your subscription in game.
Obviously this lends itself much more to a game where a spirit of cooperation is necessary and where joining together of people creates a harmonic environment where much can be accomplished. Or, if you'd like to live and toil in relative solitude, this is possible as well. Sometimes just the scenery can be breathtaking.
The game has been going through some growing pains recently and I actually have mostly retired from it, after becoming too absorbed! It's definitely good though if you know you have a solid "one month on/three months off" gaming schedule, because it's pretty absorbing but it's a good game to know when to call it quits! It's such a fulfilling real life sim that it's easy to use it as a substitute for life on Earth. Anyway, cheers to the fellow gamers!
It's an MMO, a world totally player run, with economies, houses, towns, empires, etc, built from literally the ground up from the player base. The world starts as a blank map with mountains, lakes, oceans, deserts, forests, etc, and it's completely able to be manipulated. If you want to spend your days chipping away at a mountain until it's gone, you have a lifelong task. If you want to build a humble farm and tend to crops and keep animals for minor propagation, you can do that too. If you want to play a "rogue" and go pilfer abandoned ruins from players long past, this can be very fun! The game is free to play with a premium element that becomes necessary once you get more involved, but it's entirely possible to do odd jobs for others or find a niche in the market so you can make your own wealth to pay for your subscription in game.
Obviously this lends itself much more to a game where a spirit of cooperation is necessary and where joining together of people creates a harmonic environment where much can be accomplished. Or, if you'd like to live and toil in relative solitude, this is possible as well. Sometimes just the scenery can be breathtaking.
The game has been going through some growing pains recently and I actually have mostly retired from it, after becoming too absorbed! It's definitely good though if you know you have a solid "one month on/three months off" gaming schedule, because it's pretty absorbing but it's a good game to know when to call it quits! It's such a fulfilling real life sim that it's easy to use it as a substitute for life on Earth. Anyway, cheers to the fellow gamers!
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