I once published a note on X4, which revealed my guidelines towards the game stratagy. It turns out to be an important part of my guidelines towards my own life. The simulation's too good.

However, there are significant differences between a simulation and real life. For one, X4 is really simple.

Rick Sanchez was accused of building a self centered world where he himself alone is the king of everthing - he's the smartest person, the most powerful one. It's just, so similar to an average X4 player's universe.

The danger lies that, one could easily grow trends of avoidance by following down this track. It works like this: one get accustomed to easy, short-term success, thus further avoiding hard and long-term work. By gaining easy success in a simulation, he's deprived of the necessity to gain it from real life. The process encourges itself.