Pilot 901 3 Report post Posted June 29, 2019 We all know that DU is a game based on it's community, which is supposed to build civilizations : cities, politics, economy etc ... Players will act according to their personal feelings and by their own means to reach their goals. What i was wondering about, is that it could be a very good experiment to observe all the different behaviors player could have (builders, traders, warriors, diplomats ...) and their interactions, like a huge mini-world with potentially thousands of guinea pigs (us ^^') ! This kind of stuff happened in WOW when a bug just spread a contagious virus in the game that created a real plague situation (The Corrupted Blood incident), and it has been a really interesting event for people who were looking to analyze player's behavior (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident#Models_for_real-world_research). To me, DU is an opportunity for social scientists to look for similar situations. 3 IceNine, Abatos and rothbardian reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Abatos 6 Report post Posted August 28, 2019 You're more than welcome to do so. I'm also quite interested in observing how the world grows and evolves as time goes forward. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0ozymandias 0 Report post Posted August 28, 2019 If you're proposing some sort of space-plague, then I want Necromorphs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
plmkoi 5 Report post Posted September 6, 2019 I am skeptical that people would get much when it comes to research in the social sciences utilizing DU, the main issue being the anonymity that players can hide behind. But I can say that recording the historical events of player politics might be thorough this time unlike Eve. It is a pity as a lot of the history in Eve is pretty much lost and I would compare it to basically the ancient times of the Bronze Age with a lot of info/drama being on the forums and a lot of them being shut down (scrapheap challenge). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites