In today's high tech world, there are so many applications for these types of simulation games that's its almost unreal. But, the main areas of industry that use these types of games are: the military, airlines, submarines, rocket sciences, space sciences, and law enforcement. In these sectors, mistakes on the job can cost lives, and no one wants that. So, by utilizing the MMORPG real-time strategy games, the users are allowed to try and test out the skills that they have learned so far in their training and even mess up – without the fear of real-life consequences.
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While not a lot is known in the mainstream world (due to safety and security issues), about the MMORPG simulation games that the military uses for training, there is actually a lot known about the MMORPG games that air traffic controllers are trained on. There are two main networks, VATSIM and IVAO, that air traffic controllers are training on to help them avoid on the job problems. These games provide an extremely authentic flight simulation, where the players can be air traffic controllers and pilots to learn to interact with each other and to use their skills to avoid problems in the air. By using these games, the companies actually save money, as they aren't using their real world resources for training, and there are no training accidents either. They can see how potential workers will react in emergency situations by simply running simulation games before that problem ever occurs.
