I was watching a Vsauce video and learned that any two objects, like two baseballs, are attracted to each other because of their mass, and the bigger the mass, the more gravity an object has. What does mass have to do with gravity, and what causes gravity? Why does something just attract other things around it?
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Isn’t it strange? There’s no definitive answer, but imagine an MMRPG where:
Each player can carry some amount of special mana. The only action for this mana is to trade it, so you‘ll once in a while interact with other players with that special mana, and typically not too far from those players.
Players without mana don’t care about your mana and you don’t care about them.
Players with mana condense into big swarms and trade it in a frenzy. More game servers need to be spun up to handle all the trades for that swarm.
Other in-game mechanics, like NPC bosses, achievement missions, or mini-games, incentivize swarms to stay below a certain sizes.
Mana is mass. Players with mana are particles with mass. The idea that players with mana will congregate is the “force” of gravity. Players without mana are massless particles. The in-game-trades impact on server load represents the impact of gravity on the curvature of space time.
Other game mechanics are like other forces and their agents.
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