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Army to use MMOG for Simulation Training
Anonymous Coward writes "Military Training Technology (online edition) has an interesting article, 'The End Game', containing revelations about a Research, Development and Engineering Command project 'that is as timely as the nightly news' - a Massively Multiplayer Simulation for Asymmetric Warfare, or simply MMP: 'essentially a virtual world [developed by There Inc.] intended to train soldiers well beyond the goals of war gaming'."
"Man, this army thing is fun!"
Is that a reference to Ender's Game?
There's no quad-damage in the real world... bummer.
great, now we're gonna have every geek/nerd/whatever (i forgot the difference) signing up for the us military. the gamers corps
somewhere, on a Big Red Sign:
if(color==blue){speed--;}
It takes all the fun out of a friendly-fire incident if your sergeant can just respawn.
I'm to understand that in the initial simulations, the North Koreans totally overran the United States and emerged victorious -- not through the use of nukes but through millions of zerglings. The Prime Minister of North Korea had this to say:
"ZERG RUSH kekekekeke ^______^"
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
Notice how a bunch of 12 year olds break bones because they think they can skateboard? I mean, they totally beat Tony Hawk in like, 2 days.
I mod down pyramid schemes in sigs.
I bet if it was going to be REALLY cool someone would steal the source code and ruin it for the rest of us...
What post? The one you're carrying inside your rusty innards!
It will be interesting to see how our troops will deal with real world combat when they don't have the same Ikthar's Ring of Thorns that gives them +2 to all skills, 40% more likely to find magic item, and 130% damage. u got SSoJ?
Bet this turns out to be largest price ever paid for a copy of battlefield 1942.
Hum... Quake ?
I sure wouldn't try a rocket jump in real life, would you ?
Iraq: war to save the U
The "good guys" should get outfit with alienware machines while the enemies play on Russian-refurbished Apple II's.
provoke discussion and innovation
They could even release on a GPL and then no state would have any advantage in waging war and world would live in peace. Hoorah for open source, saviour of mankind.
If you saw a platoon of lanky, pale, acne ridden zombie-creatures with calculators and rifles, backed up by a division of equally pale, huge amorphous blobs sporting over-stretched tux shirts and heavy weaponry, bearing down on you and screetching "OMFG U R LIEK GONNA B SO PWNED BITCHIZ!!!".... wouldn't you be terrified out of your mind?
I know I would.
Yes, especially if they were on my side.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
This'll last about as long as it takes for the 82nd Airborne to get their butts kicked by a bunch of 12 year olds. Maybe that's why they're calling it Asymmetric Warfare...
--Just the place for a snark!
Maybe they don't want the Army to consist of TKers, AWP campers, and flashbang spammers. Also, 90% of the soldiers would only be able to work in a combat zone laid out exactly like the de_dust map.