MMOG Article

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Summarizing the relevant forum threads, to later be resummarized into a community ideas list:

MMOG Economic roles [1] (http://www.shorthike.com/forums/showthread.php?t=794)

Economic activities that would be nice in ShortHike:

Building module component
Building modules
Building station
Hiring parts of a station (hire a docking point to some other player)* Laboratory work
Work on improving blueprints
Hauling things around the system
Servicing modules and ships
Mining asteroids (this would be very cool)
Housing (tourists, workers etc)
SkimStation
Ring Dredge
Slingshot Gateway
Space Medicine
ComLink/Network/InfoNode
Mining asteroids.
Using hollowed asteroid husks to make habitations.
Using hollowed asteroid husks to make self-propelled interplanetary transports.
Development of Luna type planetoids.
Producing carbon fiber in space.
Using carbon fiber to develop megascale structures (i.e. O'Niell cylinders, etc.).
Harvesting the solar wind.
Redirecting asteroids and comets.
Herding asteroids.
Early terraforming of suitable planetoids with asteroids and comets.
Developing laser propulsion facilities for solar sail ships.
Skimming Earth's atmosphere to provide natural atmosphere for extraterrestrial habitations (better not harvest too much).
Space garbage recovery (recycling)
Solar research (solar flare events anybody?)
Planetary observational research (Mapping storms on Jupiter, geologic study of Venus, meteorite reseach on moons, etc)
trash clean up- all space trash picked up
Shipmaker- makes ships (factories)
explorer- explore other planets and stars (ships)
planet terraformer- a person with modules that terraform a planet (thermal and life support)
Service industry/Mass transit
Hauling
(unrelated) Evolving/expanding solar system