we should be getting PAID to do this

[Verdandi]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16433-2002Dec5.html

[Woodeckt]

I read that good article. So EQ takes over Kuwait. I love it need the resources (Grin).

[Pooka]

I can see it now...

The pentagon finishes this new strategy and I can see the OPORD from here...

Insertion -
Tanks and Healers Camp the guard towards...
Casters and Rangers Farm POWs...
Rogues Loot The Terrorist Camp...
Druids Deploy and Evac The Squad.

[Cantatus]

See, I'm betting someone at the Washington Post was caught playing EQ at work. So, to keep from getting fired, he said it was for research. Then he had to come up with an idea for the article.

Bright side though, now I can get a job at the Pentagon and say I'm playing EQ to learn strategies for camping.. err invading other countries. *grin*

[Gregular]

Am I missing something here?

But the challenging idea is that the online gaming world could provide models for much more advanced ways of responding to threats. It could create real-time networks for a kind of command and control that has never been attempted. The peer-to-peer connections of the online world could also break down some of the time-wasting and bureaucratic hierarchies that continue to obstruct military planning and operations.

(italics mine)
How much time is spent organizing a raid, and clean up afterwards? Doesn't seem like much of a solution to me.

Gregular, Bristlebane

[kiztent]

How much time is spent organizing a raid, and clean up afterwards? Doesn't seem like much of a solution to me.

Less than it takes to process your taxes? I'm guessing you don't have any meetings at your job.