Some days, I just love Terra Nova to Death. Ed Castronova has some info from Ludium I about the possibility that there is ‘girl stuff’ that can be done in MMOGs. Teppy (bless em’) has gone ahead and included them in ATITD III.

“The Marriage Game” is now known as The Test of Marriage. One change  from the way it was presented at Ludium I is that your score is the sum of  your progress and your mate’s progress *or* the number of marriages that  you (”Casanova”) have been in. This made it a lot more palatable to our  players, without changing the optimal play strategy. It will be  interesting to see the distribution of “Casanovas” vs. “good spouses”, and  to see if there is some correlation with player gender. 

Not only do I think these are great ideas, this Marriage game should be in every single MMOG, from EQ to WoW. The duo/couple is probably the most common RL and in-game group, and having some sort of formal recognition of that connection would be freaking sweet. Don’t forget to allow same-gender unions!