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Every article about Genre guide on the COLONIZED blog, newest first.
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RenderEight things separate a good space simulator from a pretty one: flight model, scale and travel time, ship detail, planets, controls, multiplayer layer, progression and hardware. With the maths on how long space really takes.
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RenderCo-op, PvE and PvP are not just labels. They decide whether you can log off safely, whether a base is a home or a target and who you can trust. A guide to the five conflict models and how to choose.
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RenderThe first hours of a survival MMO decide whether you stay. A step-by-step plan for new players: read the rules, learn the needs, build small, find a group, and avoid the six mistakes that end most first sessions.
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RenderMap size means nothing without travel time and density. Walking-time maths from one kilometre to a whole planet, four ways to build a big map, five questions to test a claim, and how COLONIZED approaches scale.
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RenderIn a real player economy, players set the prices and the studio sets the rules. Currency, faucets and sinks, markets and the custody that keeps trades safe, plus the five ways economies break. COLONIZED's economy is in development.
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RenderSpace sims are about the ship. Space survival games are about you. They share a sky and part of their audience, but they ask different things of you. A side-by-side comparison, a quiz, and where COLONIZED sits.
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RenderSurvival MMORPG sounds like three genres in a trench coat. It is three ingredients with different jobs: the MMO gives the world, the RPG gives the character and survival gives the pressure. Here is how they combine.
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RenderMMO is the umbrella: many players in one persistent online world. MMORPG is one kind of MMO, built around a character who grows. The types of MMO, theme park and sandbox, and how to spot a game that is only online multiplayer.
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RenderWalking from the cockpit to the bunk changes what a ship is. What a walkable ship needs to work (scale, rooms with a job, honest measurements), how COLONIZED designs the interiors of its seven ships, and what is still in development.
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RenderWhat makes a game a space sim, the three flight models (arcade, Newtonian with assists, orbital), how a space sim differs from a space MMO and a space survival game, what “realism” really means and where COLONIZED sits.
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RenderA plain definition of the survival MMO, how it differs from a co-op survival game and from a classic MMORPG, the mechanics they share, the PvP question and what changes when the genre goes to space.
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