How possible is my passion project?

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In very short I wonder if an mmorpg of my imagination is possible to make:

  • Huge open world with visible monuments from afar
  • round explorable world (where each continent would be a separate server if had to be)
  • day here means night on other side of world (possible if world is one server?)
  • day/night cycle, moon phases, seasons and calendar, affecting gameplay
  • every tree cuttable, ore mineable, plant harvestable, pebble pickable, over whole world
  • naval warfare (ship battles)
  • personal player base server instances
  • player driven economy
  • tabletop minigames
  • too much personal customization
  • …

For example think of New World: Aeternum, but with features as above, and in a less demanding art style, probably low/medium poly stylized and maybe cell-shaded or cartoon-ish shaded.

Question:

Is all this achievable in unreal engine, and if optimized correctly can I make low-end platform owners be able to also play?

Thanks in advance!

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Hello,

While most the things you listed are achievable in Unreal you have to be realistic. Unreal was not made in mind for MMO’s and it would be a huge undertaking to do this. I’ll make this simple.

If you’re solo/indie - the answer is No.
If you have a small team - multi year project but still risky, leaning towards No.

On top of that you have to factor the experience you/your team have, infrastructure funding, time scale and 100 other things.