I could talk for weeks about the sheer nepotistic corrupt bullshit in the early years, when an Ayn Rand roleplaying group (not kidding, they were called “Taggart Transdimensional”) got unique advantages from the devs that no one else could access all in the name of “roleplaying.” They conjured up fictional characters that gave those advantages (the very first and exclusive t2 mining laser blueprint originals) to their Randroid favorites, and over and over again changed the rules to fit their favorites, year after year.
The dystopian corruption of the setting was coming from inside the development company.
That’s so realistic though
Sure, the skullduggery and corruption is neat when it’s in-game and you’re ready for it, but when godlike entities outside of the game’s limitations can just conjure shit up and change the rules to fit their Randroid buddies, that’s not fun.