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''[http://skyrates.net/index.php Skyrates]'' is a [[Adobe Flash|Flash]]-based [[MMORPG]], set in the world of [[World in Thethe Sky|Skytopia]]. This world consists of 30 something [[Floating Continent|Skylands]] which the player fly to and from in search of profit. Although it is a MMORPG, it is unusual in a couple ways. The only way to influence other peoples is economically, depriving them of trade routes and messing up the supply and demand of a specific Skyland. Another difference is the presence of "Sporadic Play" game design. This game design has allows the player to ignore the game at lengths of time, your character following a route that you have planned beforehand. With specific builds of planes, this sporadic play concept can get to almost absurd levels, people having queued up to 1600 hours in a single run.
 
The game is notable to having a small, if largely involved Fan community. The developers have utilized the fanbase for the creation of a [[Skyrates Roleplay (Roleplay)|strong Roleplaying aspect of the game,]] and the fanbase maintains a wiki and forum.
 
The game is currently free to play on version 2.6, with resets which occur every several months, in theory. The game can be found [http://skyrates.net/index.php here].
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* [[Cool Plane]]
* [[Crew of One]]: Your character can fly their aircraft all by themselves, even if it's a massive Zeppelin. However, having a crew is highly beneficial. Crews will grant you bonuses in trade and combat, and reduce flight time.
* [[Death Is a Slap Onon The Wrist]]: The Pirates which you face know that it would be unprofitable for them to kill you. When you are shot down in Aerial Combat, they simply take a portion of your cargo and allow you to continue on your merry way. (and currently cargo loss in not implemented, making the only negative side effect of losing combat a minor hit to crew morale)
* [[Diesel Punk]]
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]:
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* [[Randomly Drops]]: Gunmods
* [[Serious Business]]: The influence war.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The games creators have noted that their main influences were the ''[[Tale Spin (Animation)|Tale Spin]]'' television series and the sporadic play which they found while playing ''[[Eve Online]]''.
* [[Sky Pirates]]: The game's name is a portmanteau of the trope, but despite the name, actual pirating does not occur by the main characters. Played straight with the [[Random Encounters]] that one meets during their travels, and the Pirate Faction.
** The fluff makes the players out to be privateers and "sky pirates" though. Very few pirate characters ever show up; those that do either have [[Plot Armor]] like Remy, or are either [[Noble Demon]]/[[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]] types.
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* [[Vehicular Combat]]
* [[We Buy Anything]]: Averted - the market is almost exclusively player-driven.
* [[World in Thethe Sky]]: some two hundred years before the game's setting was the [[World War III|Great War]], which resulted in the apocalyptic [[The End of the World Asas We Know It|Great Upheaval]] that created the [[Floating Continent|skylands]] and [[The Great Flood|flooded the surface]]. [[Made of Phlebotinum|The gravitational forces holding the skylands aloft]] are also [[Made of Explodium|tearing them apart]], requiring the [[Applied Phlebotinum|unobtainium derived skystone]] to maintain stability.
* [[You Must Be This Tall to Enter]]: To gain access to farther and farther away location, one has to either put on various upgrades, or to purchase new planes with greater range.
* [[Zeppelins Fromfrom Another World]]
 
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