And a very lame one, I must say. Because SoF model is inherently flawed.
Askers that post $1 interesting-problem questions can do that for free on any newsgroup for that particular subject. People who would like to pay more for longer assignments (so as to cheat around the academic grading system) will look for blackhat-writers in their local enviroment, because the subtleties of the work should address the needs of professors, which are known locally.
And btw, SoF "solutions" are no solutions, because they can be bought and reused by any other student, resulting in the cheating revealed when using something like TurnItIn
So, maybe "fantasy vs sci-fi" is not the right question? What do you think about a MMORPG based on pirates theme, like the old Sid Meier's Pirates, which was an open-ended swash-buckling simulation masterpiece.
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And a very lame one, I must say. Because SoF model is inherently flawed. Askers that post $1 interesting-problem questions can do that for free on any newsgroup for that particular subject. People who would like to pay more for longer assignments (so as to cheat around the academic grading system) will look for blackhat-writers in their local enviroment, because the subtleties of the work should address the needs of professors, which are known locally. And btw, SoF "solutions" are no solutions, because they can be bought and reused by any other student, resulting in the cheating revealed when using something like TurnItIn
What you say is alike "problem postponed == problem solved"
So, maybe "fantasy vs sci-fi" is not the right question? What do you think about a MMORPG based on pirates theme, like the old Sid Meier's Pirates, which was an open-ended swash-buckling simulation masterpiece.