EVE New Citizens Q&A

Your name inspiration or you? Nice calligraphy.

On one hand, CCP could achieve this by wrapping all the current code (required to simulate all the gameplay mechanics) into an interpreter shell (interpret plain-old-English sentences into computer commands) and basically creating themselves a tool to make development easier. Some games do this with "mission directors" or similar tools to make NPC interaction scripts easier to "write" (as from a novel author's point of view).

On the other hand, reality could be a simulation, and various omni- powers (omniscience, omnipotence, etc.) could just be explained as administrator-level access. One way to detect whether reality is a simulation would be to detect "patches" - laws of the universe that change suddenly. One way to expedite these "patches" would be to cause an exploit situation, to force said "patches." Of course, we'd have to have the memory systems to remember the pre-patch state; if the "patch" wipes us out (like The Flood, for example), all the "exploiting" that caused it is (was) pointless.