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The War Of The Virtual Worlds
man_ls writes "The University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute is working with the U.S. Joint Forces Command to harness supercomputer power, to simulate a virtual continent for use in urban battlefield situations. The simulation, set in the year 2015, involves 100,000 entities to simulate, although the system can support more than a million."
Yeah yeah! but does it include the BFG?
I for one, welcome our new hot grits... PROFIT!
may I play age of empires on it?
I switched it into G.W.Bush Mode, and ended up with a big charcoal sphere :-P
Table-ized A.I.
Keep your Sims happy!
I have heard about this before.. I think it's called UT2015. I had found the leak on the net. :-P
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When Duke Nukem Forever comes out, everyone's computer will be able to handle millions of bodies!
Monstar L
to simulate a virtual continent for use in urban battlefield situations
That's one big fucking city.
Word to the wise: don't make this virutal world too perfect. Entire crops could be lost.
Don't blame me, I voted for Durga.
the search for WMD is as simple as:
SELECT w.GPSCoordinates
FROM Weapons w
WHERE w.DestructionType = 'Mass'
AND w.Owner 'United States'
...as in the ST:TOS episode.
:p
Now where are the casaulty units?
Notice the minimized browser in the bottom screenshot?
Instead of good guys and bad guys, they need a simulator where you are this military force propping up a hugely unpopular puppet government. You can go on missions with the puppet government's national guard, but you can't send in their national guard by themselves or they'll ally with the "bad guys".
And maybe a scoring system where if you have to keep troops there to support the government against its people indefinitely, you get no points, if the puppet government turns into a repressive dictatorship, you get one point, if the people overthrow the government and replace it with a fundamentalist theocracy, you get 2 points, and if you're right in the middle of a big urban street battle with the bad guys and you get a message that says "your capital was just nuked by a country you've been paying no attention to at all", you lose.
No, actually, that'd suck. Nevermind.
Wars will still be costly with this virtual battlefield. Think of all the quarters needed to play!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
sounds like one big GTA game ... without a storyline
But five bucks says it doesn't even get 1.3 fps
"One experiment in this series, "Urban Resolve," began October 12. Set in the year 2015, in JFCOM's description, "it involves a U.S.-led coalition force that must confront and overcome a skilled adversary who is equipped with modern capabilities and is operating in an urban environment." "
Don't ya think they got this running about a year too late? Might have been helpful in this other thing going on in the meat world.
How about a nice game of chess?
What a sad state Slashdot has come to when someone (with a remarkably high UID I note) uses the phrase "In case you haven't seen it" With respect to the film Wargames.
This is Slashdot - you used to be able to assume everyone would have seen Wargames. I don't know whether this is a dilution of the geek quotient here, or a sign that the Slashdot audience is now made up of 15 year olds, but I fear for Slashdot's future.*
Jedidiah
* Not really, Slashdot went to hell a long time ago, but it still provides amusement such as this.
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