[HN Gopher] Moving Castles: Modular and Portable Multiplayer Min...
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       Moving Castles: Modular and Portable Multiplayer Miniverses
        
       Author : Kinrany
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2021-11-30 20:01 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | BatFastard wrote:
       | Sounds like a great idea, but in virtual worlds like Kaneva
       | (anyone remember them?) people found the links that were not
       | reliable were not fun at all. So they eventually abandoned self
       | hosted servers. I suspect this scheme will also run into such
       | issues.
        
       | meheleventyone wrote:
       | This is quite a long flowery article that mostly manages to stay
       | away from invoking web3 but the idea of miniverses built and run
       | by small communities sounds great. Like MUDs, BBSes or Quake
       | servers way back when.
        
         | vorpalhex wrote:
         | Community run Minecraft servers would be the modern version.
        
       | Animats wrote:
       | This is exactly what Open Simulator does.[1] There are 366 known
       | Open Simulator grids right now.[2] Some will let in anybody. Some
       | are private. Some have portals to other grids. Some don't. All
       | have roughly the same features as Second Life. They're full high-
       | detail 3D worlds. Some have enough server capacity and bandwidth
       | to run fast. Some don't.
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       | [1] http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page
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       | [2] https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/statistics/active-grids/
        
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