[pavel_lishin]

> It's something I find it hard to explain to people who don't understand things like programming and emulators.

"It's a space game where you have to build your own computer. Unless you don't want to, in which case you can download one of, like, a million that people have already worked on for months and years."

[jiggy2011]

It depends how big a chunk of the game is dependant on the programming aspect. Since it is inherently multiplayer it's quite possible that people with technical skills will dominate the game.