It's all fun and games until, after playing for hours, you make a super tricky docking maneuver in a crowded port that disregards all the rules (yet works perfectly) and they unveil that you have been controlling ACTUAL SHIPS as part of a clever strategic outsourcing experiment. Then Mazer Rackham comes out from behind your desk crying and shouting "You did it! You did it!" and the whole world celebrates your achievement.