If whatever Nasa is working with developers to build is similar to the old Earth Orbit Stations (obviously updated as it's 20 years old) there is a lot of potential for game play.
Certainly there's no reason to build a Diku type MUD/MMO where each player is a character. It probably doesn't have to be a persistent world either in the sense of going in and moving around, but persistent in keeping track of what projects you have attempted.
They could easily simulate multiple countries or companies racing for objectives. First team to capture a comet and deliver it to moon orbit for volatiles.
They could allow experimentation with different types of fuel. With SSO or stage designs. Try different ways of building a beanstalk.
And on the business side, clearly there's a minimum size but if it is popular enough then they can plan for expansions. It's the web so updating it should be part of the project plan.
The issue is not that adding police stations to reduce crime leads to a police state, but that a true constructivist approach doesn't have 1 solution to a problem.
SimCity's model isn't complex enough to be truly constructivist. It has the appearance of constructivist thinking but not deep enough to be a full constructivist program. I know that I grew tired of SimCity because there were many optimal city end results and cities started behaving alike. It made all the SimCities feel familiar even if they were different in look.
I find the same problem with the Sims. And Will Wright even talked about it at some conferences that most Sims follow the same spiral of behavior. That seems more like a bug than a feature.
Civil disobedience isn't just breaking the law...
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Civil disobedience is not necessarily intellectual dishonesty. And one doesn't have to have the moral eloquence of Ghandi to participate in civil disobedience, nor for it to have its intended effect when large numbers engage in it. Witness the prohibition of alcohol consumption and distribution in the US in the '20s. In most forms of civil disobedience, the people who violate the law in order to show how the law is wrong also accept the legal penalties for breaking the law until the law is changed.
Breaking the law and then not taking responsibiliy for your actions isn't civil disobedience as Thoreau envisioned it.
Considering the number of people who fled speakeasies when they were raided in the '20s, I'm not sure how you can call that civil disobedience either.
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If whatever Nasa is working with developers to build is similar to the old Earth Orbit Stations (obviously updated as it's 20 years old)
there is a lot of potential for game play.
Certainly there's no reason to build a Diku type MUD/MMO where each player is a character. It probably doesn't have to be a persistent world either in the sense of going in and moving around, but persistent in keeping track of what projects you have attempted.
They could easily simulate multiple countries or companies racing for objectives. First team to capture a comet and deliver it to moon orbit for volatiles.
They could allow experimentation with different types of fuel. With SSO or stage designs. Try different ways of building a beanstalk.
And on the business side, clearly there's a minimum size but if it is popular enough then they can plan for expansions. It's the web so updating it should be part of the project plan.
Trillian does a good job of keeping message logs by user. I've gone back and gotten logs for messages I needed.
The issue is not that adding police stations to reduce crime leads to a police state, but that a true constructivist approach doesn't have 1 solution to a problem.
SimCity's model isn't complex enough to be truly constructivist. It has the appearance of constructivist thinking but not deep enough to be a full constructivist program. I know that I grew tired of SimCity because there were many optimal city end results and cities started behaving alike. It made all the SimCities feel familiar even if they were different in look.
I find the same problem with the Sims. And Will Wright even talked about it at some conferences that most Sims follow the same spiral of behavior. That seems more like a bug than a feature.
Breaking the law and then not taking responsibiliy for your actions isn't civil disobedience as Thoreau envisioned it.
Considering the number of people who fled speakeasies when they were raided in the '20s, I'm not sure how you can call that civil disobedience either.