Economics of Minecraft

One server you might be interested in looking at is 2b2t[1], which is a vanilla server which had the same map since 2010 and has no rules -- Hacked clients are "allowed" since nobody gets banned for anything! Me and a large group of people from another forum tried creating a republic there and I learned a lot about how to organize large groups that would split off into peripheral bases in a very hostile environment. Reading stories like this really makes me nostalgic for those days!

If anyone knows any servers that have trading communities and mechanics like the OP, please let me know!

[1]http://www.jamesrustles.com/2016/12/2b2t-history-2010-2016.h...

“A near-infinite, persistent online world full of untouched wilderness. Build a new civilization from scratch, starting from rocks and sticks. When you join the game, you're born as a helpless baby, with another player as your mother. Each minute marks a passing year, and over the course of an hour, you will live a full life, having children of your own along the way in the form of other players, then growing old yourself, and eventually dying. Hopefully, in your brief lifetime, you can make your own small contribution to this growing world, passing something useful down to your children and grandchildren.”

I have no affiliation with the developer, other than enjoying his previous games.

Definitely makes me interested in trying something like this - does anyone know of any other games that have similar economy aspects?

Assuming that people actually bring their ideals to a game - which is by no means certain (my Civilization-style games tends to end with total war because it's fun when nobody gets hurt for real), the two (and numerous variations) would lead to very different results, and such results would also depend greatly on ability of in-game enforcement.

E.g. you can't have a revolution and change the mode of production if the mode of production is hardcoded into the server (property right enforcement; protecting capital; inability for the in-game community to set and enforce their own law rather than rely on the mods) - unless of course the mods are in on it.

The latter, I think highlight a lot of the difficulty in getting such societies to be good simulations rather than "good enough" simulations for specific types of games: they tend to take a lot of shortcuts in enforcing certain rules "out of game" because having malleable but reliable in-game government and law enforcement is really hard to do with NPC's and requires a fairly big and dedicated user base to make viable with human players, and a lot of the potential strife it would lead to may not fit most games.

When the worst case consequence of a failed attempt at in-game revolution, coups or large scale war is that you "burn" an account, and empathy can be expected to be stunted by lack of perceived real world consequences for your victims, it's much harder to expect people to behave.