CisLunarFreighter/Specifications

Specifications
What should the user experience be like?

An overview of the game's major requirements:
 * Entertainment -- should be fun.
 * Social -- Interaction with other people via
 * Chat -- most mud environments allow this
 * Email -- useful or not?
 * Game consequences -- makes the game more interesting
 * Educational - Exposure to some science, engineering, and operations concepts
 * Math practice
 * Reading around the web
 * Use of open source tools for modding
 * Software design and coding techniques

Hardware requirements
The game client and server should run on any adequate performance desktop. It is not intended as a primary focus to meet the needs of the emerging hand-held computing and communications markets.