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The War Of The Virtual Worlds

Posted by timothy on from the attn-chris-dibona dept.

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."

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  1. What about the weapons? by diablobsb · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah yeah! but does it include the BFG?

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  2. wow by WormholeFiend · · Score: 5, Funny

    to simulate a virtual continent for use in urban battlefield situations

    That's one big fucking city.

  3. It's the smell! by centauri · · Score: 5, Funny

    Word to the wise: don't make this virutal world too perfect. Entire crops could be lost.

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  4. Tax dollar at work by DrAmes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Notice the minimized browser in the bottom screenshot?

  5. More specific scenario needed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.