The Universe Project

[nick11h]

Read the FAQ; there's a ton of stuff about how the servers will work, a couple more details about the systems, etc.

I admit, I'm not sure if they weren't being specific in some areas because they weren't knowledgeable about it, but the reason they listed was that they didn't want anyone snatching up the ideas or figuring out how to reverse engineer them for hacks.

Unfortunately, you have to enter an email to get to the faq (Scroll down after) but here's a video (The quality is iffy):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...lKoXibRIBM

Here's the dev blog with an old, un-updated faq:
http://universeprojects.blogspot.ca/

Also, within those articles, I read that one chooses how close to civilization they'd like to spawn, terrain will be generated under Earth-based guidelines (Kinda like Minecraft), and the 2D will be replaced by 3D models and characters if the game's successful after an extremely long time.

Since the game's also targeting the mobile platform, it could easily obtain dominance over the horrible pocket MMOs.