Planets can be player built, owned, and colonized, or created by the developers. It is described that Ludus is always day, Neonoir is always night, and Archaide's sky never changes with a volcano always on the horizon. The worlds within OASIS can also have different settings.
For instance, Ludus, the schooling planet, is a no-PvP zone. Player), teleporting, communications, and more. Zones could allow or prevent magic, technology, PvP (Player vs. The sectors have zones that can be any shape and size, and each has different rules/flags. The universe of the OASIS is split into 27 sectors each 10 light hours across, arranged like a Rubik's cube. While obtaining and booting up the game costs only 25 cents (one quarter) to use and operate (an homage to the video games of the 1980s which only required one quarter to run per game), in-game vending, travel between worlds and zones, and almost everything else costs additional in-game fares. The unprecedented success of the OASIS made Halliday one of the wealthiest people in the world.Īfter Halliday's death the OASIS continued to evolve and grow in popularity, protected from takeover attempts and legal challenges by the ironclad terms of Halliday's will and the army of lawyers he had tasked with administering his estate. It co-evolutionized the entirety of gaming and made up for all of GSS' 10-or-so years of lost revenue they spent creating it.
