And one more thing! You were right about having issues compiling with QT being by design. The plan is to remove it entirely in the short term in favor of a text-user interface wallet and/or having RogueSpace be the default with more lightweight, open source options.
When I first discovered this thread, "minimalist cryptocurrency" was what caught my eye. QT is a giant, unnecessary clusterfuck if you only need to make calls to the daemon to operate within the game. I'm still interested in this project if plans are to ditch the gui of the cryptocurrency, as what I see currently on Github is just LTC clone.