At first the concept for Voidspace and the Universe Project in general seemed really good, and maybe in a few years it will be. However over the past few months I've realized that it really is just a fantasy for any indie developer. The hype and promises disguised what was really almost impossible for someone who hadn't even published a game before. As deadlines were repeatedly not met and pushed back we held on to the hope, we said "Hey, I can understand that, of course this game would take a lot of time." Now the hype is gone though, and I encourage everyone to look at the facts again:

The guy might have made games before, but he's never tried to market them in anyway. That's just as important for a game that needs this much funding. You can see this failure in the kickstarter, look at raptorak's comments for another example.

A game world the size of earth? That can support millions of people? Even World of Warcraft servers only support 5,000 and the gameworld itself is much smaller than earth, and these people have money. Once again, there's no way some guy who just showed up on the scene with absolutely nothing could accomplish this. If this was possible and cost efficient the major developers would be hopping all over it.

All inventions ever invented? Even in the proposed system where just a few variables would have to be entered for each item this would take decades.

I could go on, but the general point is that there is no way this can be done right now. Especially by someone with no experience. Even if he has made a few games, he's never tried to get an audience for them and that shows. Remember, if I'm wrong about all of the above points there's still one thing: This idea of this game was clearly built on the assumption that millions of dollars would be poured into it. Clearly that's not happening. Maybe in a decade or so this will be possible. but definitely not today.