A shared universe should not depend on one player leaving their session open. The worker tests run original SPORE as the authority for a prepared Creature world.
Recorded trials checked unattended native actions, overlapping isolated workers, crash containment, clean shutdown, and recovery from a sealed checkpoint. The human client and launcher could close without becoming the authority.
These are rendered original-game workers with recorded desktop and stall limits. Usable dedicated Internet hosting remains a later milestone.
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