Tragedy of the Commons: An Inner Look at the Economics and Psychology of Loot Cycling and the Inevitable Collapse of Day Z

[mynameismonkey 25]

Please use the space below to comment on what would likely have been an interesting albeit highly unoriginal set of thoughts and principles of the dilemma arising from the situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently and rationally consulting their own self-interest, will ultimately deplete a shared limited resource, even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's long-term interest for this to happen.

Like, downed helo spawns.

Yeh, go with that.

[komoter226@yahoo.co.uk 59]

No worries. I think Rocket will add in more loots, so there won't be a collapse any time soon ;)

[hkurban 31]

*DERP* Nevermind, just saw the other post you were parodying.

Edited July 25, 2012 by HKurban

[richard_b 15]

Good job insulting the other post on PvP.

Kindly fuck off.

[tacooftwister22 10]

What post is this a parody of?

[nemahsys 4]

pointless thread is pointless

[Itchy (DayZ) 59]

Yes but one needs to interpret that the psychology around the basis or the experiment termed day-z.

Is on the basis that people in real life have a profound trust in their lives, but as this experiment is based on

a game of manipulation and pathological collecting and seeking ones needs in survival .......................Falls asleep!!!! :huh:

Sarcastic response to a mind fucking post!!! <_<

[mynameismonkey 25]

Good job insulting the other post on PvP.

Kindly fuck off.

I fucked off, but I couldn't figure out how to do it kindly. Next time I shall bring tea and crumpets and talk like Mary Poppins. Although she wasn't that nice after all, was she? Leaving the kids stranded like that, and teasing Bert the Dustman or whatever his name was. In fact, I will not talk like Mary Poppins. I shall talk like one of those fat witches in Sleeping Beauty or CInderella. The good ones. The good, fat ones. Ergo. Heretofore.

[sixbarns 217]

Bandits hurt my feelings bro.

[ben_c 140]

If you did indeed fuck off and, whilst in said process of fucking off, you stopped and removed a thorn from an injured kittens paw or gave a homeless man your beans would that be 'kindly fucking off'?

Just trying to help you out here Monkey. The lack of people 'kindly fucking off' is ruining DayZ and will lead to the messy, messy demise and social collapse of the whole thing.

[mynameismonkey 25]

If you did indeed fuck off and, whilst in said process of fucking off, you stopped and removed a thorn from an injured kittens paw or gave a homeless man your beans would that be 'kindly fucking off'?

Just trying to help you out here Monkey. The lack of people 'kindly fucking off' is ruining DayZ and will lead to the messy, messy demise and social collapse of the whole thing.

I think you raise a valid point, but herein lies the unspoken problem. Once I begin to fuck off, I am in the process of fucking off. But at some point I must finish fucking off, no? Does one fuck off indefinitely, or does the actual act of fucking off end at some point? Ergo, heretofore, thusly one cannot suffuse the exact point in time BEFORE WHICH IT IS IMPERATIVE that I remove the thorn/help a homeless man, for if I do not enact this act prior to the terminatory point of the act of fucking off, I cannot therefore, heretofore, ergo be fucking off kindly.

I propose that "fucking off" last five minutes, and any random acts of kindness enacted within these five minutes constitutes a kindly fucking off.

Ergo.

Heretofore.

[ben_c 140]

*places pipe in mouth in a thoughtful fashion*

Yes, but why should the act of fucking off be an arbitary 5 mins? Are we tying ourselves down here in the act of 'kindly fucking off' by suggesting that the act of fucking off, kindly or otherwise, MUST be carried out within a 5 min 'fucking off radius' of homeless, bean starved juvenile feline? I fear that only you can search your soul and decide when you have moved from fucking off to a full fledged fucked off state and if your acts of kindness count towards the kindly fucked off end state.

I suggest, nay demand, that Rocket adds a fucking off mechanic to DayZ and lets the players decide as to the nature of their fucking off. That's emergent gameplay.

[Agrocr0c 23]

The OP is deliberately using overly complex language to express a simple point. This is called copious verbiage; he will quickly alienate himself. What a dork.

[Grimlok (DayZ) 134]

Oh look. This thread again.

[Itchy (DayZ) 59]

The OP is deliberately using overly complex language to express a simple point. This is called copious verbiage; he will quickly alienate himself. What a dork.

+1 :thumbsup:

[SpecOpsScott 20]

There are not enough beans for this thread!

[mynameismonkey 25]

The OP is deliberately using overly complex language to express a simple point. This is called copious verbiage; he will quickly alienate himself. What a dork.

The real question here is what is the OP, and what is it a parody of? Perhaps if one were to interrogate the system to illuminate the riddle, one could forego salacious verbiage and contract socially with the unwashed masses. Ergo.

[mynameismonkey 25]

*places pipe in mouth in a thoughtful fashion*

Yes, but why should the act of fucking off be an arbitary 5 mins? Are we tying ourselves down here in the act of 'kindly fucking off' by suggesting that the act of fucking off, kindly or otherwise, MUST be carried out within a 5 min 'fucking off radius' of homeless, bean starved juvenile feline? I fear that only you can search your soul and decide when you have moved from fucking off to a full fledged fucked off state and if your acts of kindness count towards the kindly fucked off end state.

I suggest, nay demand, that Rocket adds a fucking off mechanic to DayZ and lets the players decide as to the nature of their fucking off. That's emergent gameplay.

Excellent suggestions all, although I demand that acts of kindness worth 200 Kindly Points be listed so we can quickly understand how to best game the system. For example, if one were to drop a Makarov Mag, is this an act of kindness insofar as someone can pick it up and gain value from the acquisition, or is it an act of unkindness due to the inherent litterage factorials? Heretofore, notwithstanding.