Ars Technica | How Gamers Killed Ultima Online's Virtual Ecology | War Stories | Ars Technica @arstechnica | Uploaded December 2017 | Updated October 2024, 9 seconds ago.
When creating Ultima Online, Richard Garriott had grand dreams. Richard and Starr Long planned on implementing a virtual ecology into their massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It was an ambitious system, one that would have cows that graze and predators that eat herbivores. However, once the game went live a small problem had arisen...

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