I play an online text based game called Utopia: World of Legends. The game site can be found at http://games.swirve.com/utopia. This game is a fantasy based game where you are given a new province. You can choose your race and personality of your province, and then you build it up within your kingdom. Each kingdom has 25 provinces that communicate together through a forum and your kingdom is given a number. For example, I am in kingdom 9, island 38, resulting in my kingdom being (9:38). My province is any name I want. We together as a team, go to war, give aid to each other and attack other kingdoms. As you play this game, you build a reputation through acres of land and networth. As you grow, the bigger your lands, the bigger your army, and the bigger your networth, leads to, the bigger your reputation. However, every 6 months the whole utopian society is reset, which means your province is started anew, but you still stay with the kingdom-mates. As every age turns, you stay with the same kingdom-mates until you delete your account or defect into another kingdom. I have never met my kingdom-mates in real-life however; I have developed a good reputation and an online identity. None of my kingdom-mates know my real name, and refer to me as Sir Porter (my province ruler’s name) or Silver Accord (my province name).
Our kingdom communicates through the personal kingdom forum that is built into the game site. Usually, that is the only means of communication. However, other kingdom’s who are intensely passionate about this game, chat usually through IRC or other chat programs with their kingdom-mates usually to be extra-organized during wartime. My true identity has no use in this game. My kingdom-mates are not interested in my real life; they are more interested in how well I do in growing in my utopian life. I believe that this game has become a daily part of my life. I usually check up on my utopian province 2-3 times a day. Usually, nobody is too interested in my true identity. I am pretty sure other kingdoms do not care about their kingdom-mates true identities either. I feel like I have a second-life through this utopia province.
My online identity may be stolen by someone knowing or stealing my username and password. I believe that is the only way my online identity can be stolen. If someone stole my password I would be extremely pissed, because not only have I developed a relationship with my kingdom-mates, it took me a long time to build up my province and create a good reputation. The ways kingdoms are assigned are purely random. However some cheaters want to be in the same kingdom as their real-life friends and use deception in order to make it work. First, the cheater would make two provinces. They will obviously be in two different kingdoms. Then the cheater would build up his province and develop a high networth in one of his kingdoms. The cheater’s other province would be in the kingdom he wants his friend to be in. After achieving a reputable networth in the first kingdom, they would message a noobie in his second kingdom and ask him to switch accounts with his first kingdom. They would show him the high networth province and lure the noobie into switching accounts. Then the cheater would give his friend the noobie’s username/password and be in the same kingdom. Trying to be in the same kingdom as a real-life friend is nearly impossible and resorting to this method is the only way.
If anyone is interested by my blog post and wish to join this online gaming community, sign up, and I will be more than happy to guide you through the game, and give u strategic advice.
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