Minecraft server as economic labratory

[Robert Kramer]

Hello all,

I'm Robert Kramer.  I joined in Oct. but I havn't been around much.  I'm a Master's student in the Systems Science program at PSU.

One of my colleagues asked me if I knew anyone interested in setting up a minecraft server with data collection on players: interactions, social networks, resource management, etc.  If it were possible, then we could use it as an economic laboratory.  

Is anyone interested?  I know there is an economist working on participatory economics here at Portland State.  I think it would be interesting to be able to get data on an agent based simulation with real people as agents.  Wider availability of data in games would enable a whole host of actual sciencey type things with games.  Apparently the UN is using minecraft for social collaboration in urban development.  I'm sure you guys know more than me.

Thanks,

Robert

[Bart Massey]

I'm a CS professor at PSU who runs a Minecraft server at home, and who has written software to grub around in its database. I would be happy to help a bit with such a project if there's a team behind it.

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[benjamin barber]

There is a game thats colloqually called the "spreadsheet simulator" with a very complex market system called "EVE Online"

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=spreadsheet%20simulator