Frontier 1859
Frontier 1859 (also F1859) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game currently in development by Cosmic Origins.
It is the one of the next-generation of massively multiplayer online role playing games where the actions of player-characters will affect and change the world around them. Frontier 1859 is set in the American Great Basin country, Western Nevada, during the historic era of American Old West along with silver-mining, conflict, and Western settlement.
Gameplay
History offers the paramount components of roleplay. The struggle to survive and overcome odds requires people and communites to band together. In this new virtual world, players may help or hinder each other's survival in a harsh wilderness environment complete with changing seasons. Communities can create their own laws (or remain lawless) and enforce them (or not). Frontier 1859 will model many of the same conditions people faced in 1859, giving each participant a chance to replay history.
Players will have to work together with other players and form communities to achieve their goals and tame the wild frontier. The environment during this period in history allows for an excellent opportunity to introduce player-authored content, and the world's first in-game player accountability system will hold players accountable for in-game crimes as well as survival skills, utilizing a "Dynamic Conscience System" that directly affects player-characters.