Army's MMO Game Sim Details Discussed

Thanks to HomeLan Fed for their interview with Robert Gehorsam of There Inc. regarding their U.S. Army-funded 'virtual world' project, as previously mentioned on Slashdot. This extension of an the existing There Inc. MMO title will apparently "enable a commander of an [Army] unit to say, 'Hey, my unit needs to train for its upcoming peacekeeping duties in Kumar.' He works with a trainer to develop a specific environment and scenario (or better yet, modify an existing one out of a repository), figures out who is going to play the bad guys, the civilians and the 'others' -- like the Red Cross, the UN, etc. -- and then prep his unit for the exercise." However, when asked about the types of features MMOG fans might recognize, Gehorsman suggests: "Guns? I'll admit, however, that the magic system is not particularly robust."

Comments

Peacekeeping in Kumar?

[orthogonal]

"enable a commander of an [Army] unit to say, 'Hey, my unit needs to train for its upcoming peacekeeping duties in Kumar.'

Oddly enough, "Kumar" is the name given to a thinly fictionalized Saudi Arabia in the favorite escape from dreary Bush-redux reality of U.S. liberals, TV's The West Wing.

So is Robert Gehorsam (to paraphrase Baroness Thatcher's accusation to Neil Kinnock) a "crypto-liberal", or does Saudi Arabia have some "regime change" heading its way?

Re:Not magic. Luck

[Clockwurk]

Wow, you took a nice discussion about a cool potential game and turned it in to a tirade about Bush.

You sir a piece of shit in the truest sense of the word.

MOD DOWN

[ZosX]

Who could have possibly modded this piece of flamebait up??! That "tirade" is not far from the truth and was a nice piece of satire. I hope your karma burns to nothing. Please do the world a favor and grow up and learn how to intelligently interact with people.