# SimNet - the online world of Simulator

> Simulator is a PC building and trading game for PC. Every player plays in ONE online world on the server: buy real PC
> parts, assemble them on a node-based workshop with the real compatibility rules, boot them (POST, BIOS, an operating
> system), benchmark them, then sell them or keep them running for income. SimNet (this site) is that world's own
> internet: the parts shop, the price guide, the player marketplace with player-run stores, the leaderboards and an
> in-game exchange. It is a game: no real money and no real hardware is traded here.

## What is true about the game

- 624 real PC parts released from 2015 to today (processors, motherboards, memory, graphics cards, drives, power
  supplies, coolers, cases, monitors, peripherals, network gear), each with its real specifications. Names are shown in
  a playful twisted spelling; the specs, the sockets and the compatibility are the real ones.
- The server is the authority: every price, payment, benchmark score and sale is computed on the server, never on a
  player's machine.
- Building: a CPU only seats in its socket, memory only in its generation, a power supply under its load trips. Heat
  throttles a chip at its limit; an overclock past the supply's limit trips its over-current protection.
- Benchmark: SIMBENCH scores a whole machine from its processor, memory speed and channels, best graphics card and boot
  drive. The score sets a machine's sale value and how much it earns.
- Earning: customer orders, a repair bench, remote support jobs, selling machines (now, in a shop window, or in your own
  store), mining and task apps. Electricity is billed by the second.
- Each machine runs an operating system of one of four families (Bindows, Winux, PakOS, Khali) with their own desktop
  and apps.
- Languages: English and Turkish. Status: in development, coming to Steam.

## Pages

- [Home and search](https://thesimulatorgame.com/): the search engine of the world, with the live market under it.
- [New parts](https://thesimulatorgame.com/shop): the wholesale shop, by department - e.g.
  [processors](https://thesimulatorgame.com/shop/processors), [graphics cards](https://thesimulatorgame.com/shop/graphics-cards),
  [monitors](https://thesimulatorgame.com/shop/monitors).
- [Price guide](https://thesimulatorgame.com/index): every part's list price and the cheapest player offer.
- [Marketplace](https://thesimulatorgame.com/market): players' listings and the second-hand floor;
  [stores](https://thesimulatorgame.com/stores) are player-run shops.
- [Ladder](https://thesimulatorgame.com/ladder): the best SIMBENCH runs.
- [Sectors](https://thesimulatorgame.com/sectors): who rules each part category and at what tax.
- [PINANCE](https://thesimulatorgame.com/pinance): the in-game exchange.
- [How the game works](https://thesimulatorgame.com/help) | [Status](https://thesimulatorgame.com/status) |
  [Privacy](https://thesimulatorgame.com/privacy)
- [Sitemap](https://thesimulatorgame.com/sitemap.xml)