The military asks gamers to help in the fight against Somali pirates



    The first question that may arise when reading the headline is: “What do gamers have to do with it?” The US Navy experts believe that it is gamers who will help corporations in the international community cope with pirates, since players who are skilled in strategies and various MMORPGs will help develop a new methodology for combating Somalis. It seems that the military is not succeeding, the ships continue to capture, and the pirates continue to receive money. Of course, the military will not ask gamers for advice on forums or other resources, in order to familiarize themselves with the problem, a special online multiplayer game is created for gamers.

    This toy will be called Massive Multiplayer Online War Game Leveraging the Internet ( MMOWGLI) The launch of the game was supposed to happen on Monday, but something did not grow together there, and the opening of the game was postponed for several days. The US Navy promises that the launch will occur later this month. By the way, one of the reasons that the launch was postponed is the very large number of people who want to participate in this game, apparently, the resources allocated for emulating the game world will not withstand the influx of all voluntary assistants.

    The military expects that all participants in the project will be able to develop a common strategy to combat pirates, offering new ideas. In addition, each participant in the action will have to make an assumption about what specific risks threaten the holding of a particular action at sea. Project participants will be able to vote on each other's ideas, make corrections, expand and refine them. As a result, a certain circle of ideas will be formed that can be used in real conditions.

    It is worth noting here that the game is divided into three rounds, each of which will take about a week. After this period, the game system will process all the ideas, giving the entire array a more or less understandable form.

    Yes, lovers of running and shooting here will probably not be very interesting. But fans of collective discussions in a game form will be able to get a lot of pleasure.

    The site of the game itself has already been indicated above, but I will point it to every fireman again .

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