6. Dwarf Fortress. You arrive at a newly established fortress as a Migrant Dwarf; subject yourself to scrutiny and try to avoid the ignominy of being a Fish Cleaner/Cheese Maker. Alternatively, you could arrive as a pet cat with the sole task of causing the demise of the fortress through any number of means, more points/rewards for creativity. 7. Bollywood X-Treme. You arrive in the simulated city as a lowly accountant/help-desk/clerk, but strange and wonderous things happen to you on a daily basis - largely involving impromptu song and dance numbers involving a greater number of people as the simulation steamrolls along.

I suspect this thread would be better off in the Homebrew section, being a fan-produced list of ideas. In any case, here are a few more, "inspired" by current online communities and pieces of media. 9. Tabula Rasa servers This is a term used to describe simulspaces with largely user-developed content. A favourite of artists and creative types, they range from sprawling virtual art galleries to fantastical cityscapes. Most Tabula Rasas require a a verification process for a user to be given access to the virtual editing tools, but some allow open access and treat the chaos which usually results as its own art form. 10. Storyworld Virtual worlds were popular for children before the fall, and are even more in demand after it due to the large number of instantiated, but not legally adult, egos of children uploaded during the evacuation of Earth. Storyworld is a collection of linked simulspaces, based on beloved children's stories and governed by caretaker AIs. Allowing children access to simulspaces has come under much criticism after the failure of the Futura Project, but Storyworld remains active due to the difficulty in caring for children in AF10. Rumours abound that several sub-worlds of the simulspace were acquired from Cognite cheaply after the Futura project shutdown, but remain unproven. 11. Andromeda Eternis Andromeda is a large-scale space empire sim. Players control fleets of ships and form large alliances and coalitions, trading resources and vying for control of territory with each other. While it has been criticized as having the making space battles dry and uninteresting, it enjoys a large fanbase. Notable for having exactingly detailed realistic space combat as is currently possible by transhumanity, with the addition of faster-than-light travel. Particularly interesting tactics or in-game admirals are observed with interest by several military groups in the real world. 12. Adventures of Distant Suns AoDS is a beloved, long-running adventure/drama simulspace. It presents a science fantasy setting, with multiple humanoid alien races, which users may play as. Major events are guided by a creative team, but players may be involved in adventures, political scheming, betrayal or be caught up in the complex relationships between factions. 13. EduNet servers In AF10, education is highly sought after. Millions of Fall evacuees constantly need to learn new skills, and even with forking, there are never enough educators. EduNet is a sprawling, basic interface for education simulspaces built and maintained by the Argonauts. Licenced (freely) versions exist on almost every major population center's mesh, and usually have custom environments which replace the default beige lecture rooms of the basic system. Even the Planetary Consortium provides EduNet for free to its citizens, though they tend to not allow them to be run on accelerated time servers; private companies provide accelerated education for a fee. Basic teaching is provided by carefully edited delta forks of many respected experts in various fields or skillsoft-equipped AI, while tools are included for professionals to teach other people. 14. Edens Eden simulspaces are high-fidelity representations of gardens and other natural settings. Several are reproductions of famous places and parks on Earth, painstakingly reconstructed from records and memories after the Fall. Almost all are freely accessible, and they are highly valued in psychological care work. 15. Niceville This surprisingly popular simulspace is a reproduction of a town in the United States in the mid-twentieth century. Usually the simulspace is run with its colours in greyscale as a homage to historical media technology. Much of the amusement is in the form of farcical miscommunication or "hyjinks" between players and AI NPCs. Notably these servers tend to be run with extremely strict filters on strong language or risque behaviour, though finding new ways to slip suggestive material past the filters is a time-honoured tradition. Edit: fixed numbering

Final Destination: A flat rectangle made from a slightly yielding gripping material. It moves through simple virtual space in a vaguely horizontal manner, generating a strong breeze across it. This simulspace is a popular locale for virtual martial arts, as there is no favorable asymmetry for any fighter, leaving combat to a matchup of only skill. xXx420BLAZIT.SOTYEDITION.MLG2PRO4U.69XxX: Beginning pre-fall as a stabilizing memeplex of various self-referential internet memes X420X for short has evolved into a complete sensory overload simulator. It has long passed any rational point of enjoyment or art. The actual simulspace is a simple grid of rooms through which the player walks. There are technically enemies to fight, but only the most strong minded of viewees can find them in the screaming mist of unaltered X420X. It is rumored that both Direct Action and Medusan Shield have used sudden injections of X420X visual effects into training simulspace environments as a drill for dealing with sudden sensory overload. Greenery: An endless sheet of natural environments, procedurally generated in part by the mindset of the user. People entering Greenery project a zone of control around themselves which matches their current mood. Greenery is especially common, as many people use it as a reflective place to cool emotions. The comparitive simplicity of Greenery compared to many other simulspaces allows for less hardware to run a higher speed inside, making the cooldown time worth more in the real world.

18. Urban Survivalists Players are dumped into a 21st century version of one of the earthly slums. They are given twenty dollars and a set of clothing and are tasked to survive for a period of time predetermined before logging in. If they fail, they respawn buried alive for the duration of their remaining stay. This simulspace is particularly popular among decadent artists, wanabe social workers searching for a "poverty simulator" and extremely rich CEOs and celebrities wanting to taste something new and exotic to them. 19.Snowy Solitude Players are spawned in a buddhist monastery at the top of a mountain somewhere in the Himalays. In this remote location they can taste a simple and refreshing life of a hard, but fruitful labor, meditation and prayers. If they wish, they can talk to one of the very sophisticated AIs to discuss topics like theology, philosophy and art. Rumor has it, that this simulspace is frequently used as a meeting place for members of various clandestine groups, from Project Ozma to the triads,

1. Whiskey Gardens A forgettable, flash-in-the-pan homesteading simulation called Green Gardens peaked in users around mid-A.F. 2, but by the close of A.F. 3 the Venusian startup which created Green Gardens had folded. Green Gardens didn't have enough dedicated fans to do anything more than the odd take over and maintenance of the local shard where interest was strong enough, and as better sims came out even these largely shut down as players moved on to greener pastures (and gardens). But out at the edge of the solar system, a dedicated group of 50 players from a variety of factions and walks of life happened to include a re-instantiated horticultural expert turned drug dealer and her partner, a half-decent hacker and excellent programmer who loved logging in to Green Gardens with her after a long day to see that smile seen nowhere else since leaving behind their patch of land in India during the Fall. Whiskey Gardens might not have the big budget polish of some of the newer fare (and indeed, many games released in the last 5 years where gardening isn't the focus have functionality for farming and gardening far exceeding Green Gardens' unmodified content), the quality and regularity of the unofficial updates has swelled over five times the original 50 (plus or minus those who've left Whiskey or died without insurance) to over 2% of Whiskey's population, and made Whiskey Gardens the longest-running shard of a homesteading sim in the solar system. Nothing says dedication like Boulanger Family muscle spending their free time playing farmhands on an ID Crew-led farm year after year, although all such in-game relationships are kept from higher-ups on Whiskey (and never mentioned on Guanxi, just in case). The main shard on Mars is back online running Whiskey Gardens' updates as of last year, and Martian mesh forum buzz indicates that people nostalgic for the early days of trying desperately to distract themselves from the fresh horrors of the Fall seem to be driving the resurgence on Mars. This (and the uptick in Lunar traffic on said Martian mesh buzz) may point to Whiskey Gardens making a minor splash other places in the system soon. 2. Sync-Up Tactics Everyone knows you can only play real-time with other players in your small patch of the solar system due to time lags, no matter how identical the versions of a VR world are between habs. Outer system types that were tired of ripping off the newest major studio release to play in a huge gameworld that is [i]vastly[/i] more populated on the Venusian or Martian shards came up with a game collaboratively, swapping time-lagged communiques between wandering Scum, intrepid Skimmers, eccentric Ringers and other isolated or far-flung programmers as they built a single-shard tactical experience so massively multiplayer that you can find Sifters at war with Out'sters! The game is effectively localized slices of real time gameplay and territory management that contribute to a solar system-wide turn order that sets up the next round of real time gameplay. The turn information from the real time slices takes 48 hours from the beginning of collection to the new turn's beginning, and an AI (whose priorities you can modify) takes turns for you in your absence to keep the game moving. Set on an alien world roughly 1.5 times the size of Earth, you can customize the appearance and abilities of your unique alien race (or use someone else's creation if you prefer) and the game randomly allots you a starter nation of land and a timer to build yourself up and ping your neighbours to feel out potential truces, alliances or conflicts ahead. The devs say the issue of existing users claiming "unclaimed" land to allot to new users may eventually become an issue and are hard at work designing a second planet.

#26 Under The Sea A simulation of Earth's ocean marketed to uplifts. Allows you to become whatever form you please, and swim through the ocean's depths. This seemingly innocuous Sim world has a dark secret though. The settings can be tweaked just right so as to simulate drowning to awaken primal terrors in land dwelling species.