I'm sorry.

I'm sorry for not being able to continue this exciting project. I thought I could do it after my finals but my schedule became even tougher. I'm sorry, but I cannot continue this.

Goodbye.

Hey guys!

Due to the time zone I live in it's my time to go to bed, but I wanted to say a few words before I left for a few hours.

I just wanted to remark how proud I am of your guys' involvement in this crazy project I decided to start. I didn't expect it to go so well. I am so thankful that you guys in particular joined because you are making this thing great.

Keep it going! I'm so excited to introduce new features soon, right after I finish my finals.

Once again, thankful for all of you,

The Creator

Hi fellow redditors!

First of all, I am super stoked about this project. I feel like this could be the beginning of something big, and it's all thanks to you guys.

But I need you guys to take your first step in this simulation and assign yourselves some of the roles available. There is a pinned post about this, so check it out before making a decision.

Thanks in advance and see you all very soon!

In order to begin this simulation we need to stablish some initial roles, which will be:

• Innovators: in charge of all innovations. Remember, you are starting in this world from scratch, you don't even know how to make fire, so innovators will be in charge of figuring that out.

• Legislators: in charge of coming up with the entire political and legal system. They are not people with all-mighty power, as they can be overthrown. But, at least at the beginning, they will be the ones deciding the very first steps of our political and legal history.

• Manufacturers: these are the guys that make stuff. At the beginning, they are the ones in charge of making the innovations happen.

• Gatherers: these guys are the ones who find the resources needed by the manufacturers. Without them, manufacturers can do nothing and innovations end up being just ideas. They also find fruits and vegetables out there in the wild. So yeah, pretty useful dudes.

• Hunters & Fishermen: I think it's pretty obvious what these guys do. They hunt and fish for food, for everyone hopefully.

Besides that, any other roles that want to be included must follow the following procedure:

• If you are not a legislator, write a brief post on the new role you want to include and why do you think it must be included. Then, depending on how your legal system works, a legislator will or will not communicate when the vote to approve or deny that role will happen. I, the creator, will personally set up that vote and in 24hrs you, the people, will decide if it is included or not.

• If you are a legislator, then simply set a date for when you want to vote on this new role and we will simply vote on that date.

Due to our recent success (thanks to our new 18 members), I, The Creator, have decided to have our launch a bit earlier than expected.

And by earlier I mean, TOMORROW!

So get ready people, this is going to be really exciting and I think you are going to love it!

I just want to get a feel on how many people still check this sun. I really enjoyed it and don’t want it to die.

It's official! We are located in a village we call Ascella. We are a nation that follows a democratic popular vote with a few aspects of having representatives. We live in a time in the early Neolithic Age.

We are questioning a religion that worships Mother Helios and the Hawks of the sky. We haven't 100% chosen to follow it yet, but many people are trusting of this new seemingly harmless ideology. Not much is known about it or its nature.

Our morale is still pretty high. We have houses, beds, and fire to keep us warm, but not much else in terms of furnature and other comfort items. We wear fur clothes which keeps us warm throughout the days and nights, but we also have grass clothing for especially warm days.

We have started farming. We can plant seeds and harvest food with our bare hands, but we are still constructing farming tools. We have pets like wolves and wildcats for companionship and hunting, and are currently researching animal farming. Once we find some farm animals, we will already have made fences to keep them in.

We have also dipped our toes into mining. We have researched technology like pickaxes and metallurgy, but for some reason we haven't started to mine yet. Our brave, strong gatherer-miners are raring to go!

Morale is still relatively high and environmental health is also really high, but the villagers are still confused what to do as we haven't received Day 5 results. We had our first successful town hall yesterday and we all peacefully said our opinions.

However, something tells us villagers that it's only going to get harder from here. Natural disasters, foreign nations, and even potential internal disagreement, violence, or corruption. Will we survive long enough to build a successful nation that fosters peace, justice and ingenuity? Or will we fall like the "Earthling Prophecy" predicted? Only time will tell!

With that said, shine bright everyone!

Pretty simple, miners mine things. We have pickaxes, why not put them to work? Right now only copper is minable, but later we will find new ores for the miner to find (at the creator's discretion).

Time to throw away these simple stone tools and step into the future of mining!

Hi! If you've come across this post you probably became interested by the title of this subreddit.

"Improving the world? What do you mean by that?"

Well, let me explain. The purpose of this subreddit is to answer a simple question: "Could we do better?".

With all the knowledge we, the Human Race, have acquired over the past 3000 years or so, could we develop a better world than the one we currently live in?

• Knowing the tragic consequences of both War World's, would we avoid them or not?

• Being aware of how unethical it was to have slaves, would we still go through a phase in our history when they would be the main labor force?

• Having seen the huge damages and the insane amount of deaths caused by dictatorships and totalitarians such as fascism or communism, would we still support these political movements at some point in our new founded society?

These and many more questions related to science, economics and more, will arise through this massive simulation and hopefully we would get to know if we can or cannot do better than our antecessors.

So please, if you've read all this so far, consider joining this subreddit. The only thing I, the creator, demand for you is to invest a few minutes each day and be an active participant in society.

Thanks for your attention and hope I get to see you around here,

The Creator

GOOGLE SPREADHEET

I have created a Google Spreadsheet with the following sheets:

• FOOD STOCK: includes the current stock day by day. Goes from day 1 to day 7 of the week. Why? Because every week we will reset it. How? Use data from day 7 of last week, update with the consumptions and wastes from the table below and insert the data on day 1. DATA ON THE TABLE OF CONSUMPTIONS AND WASTED CANNOT BE CHANGED, AS WELL AS ACTIVE POPULATION

• SECTIONS: this includes how many hunters, fishermen and gatherers go to each section every day. If you need to make any changes, you can change the numbers currently set. SUCCESS RATES CANNOT BE CHANGED

• PRODUCTION RATES: this includes:

  • The products you can manufacture and their costs in materials (DO NOT CHANGE IT)

  • The max amount of product type you can make in an hour (DO NOT CHANGE IT)

  • The difficulty and adversity (these are part of the algorythm I use in my simulation) (DO NOT CHANGE IT)

  • Current resources you have (YOU MUST UPDATE THEM DAILY)

  • The number of manufacturers on each product (YOU MUST UPDATE THOSE AS WELL AS NEW PRODUCTS KEEP COMING IN)

This is mainly for new members who just joined and are wondering how we are so far and the types of technology we have access to:

• We live in an extremely early democratic society in a time period around the paleolithic age. Our population seems to be omnivorous and we have a seemingly stable food supply.

• We are currently the first tutorial days so there are no special weather conditions or seasons, all we need to know is that its warm during the daytime and cool during the night.

• We have access to fire, simple tools like (stone axes, stone pickaxes, stone spears, and torches) and also simple constructions like tents. We also recently made bonfires for cooking, grass clothes for wearing, and hunting knives for the hunters to be able to gather fur for better clothes and houses.

• We are currently learning how to make houses out of adobe, food storage, and clothes/beds made from that fur we collected. This will be done within a few hours.

If anyone else has any information to add then please feel free to post that in the comments.

Until next time, shine bright everyone! :)

Here are the results of our very first day:

• Innovations: duration times depend on the difficulty of the investigation, adversities along the investigation and number of innovators on each project.

  • Clothes and beds made of fur: 2 hours and 18 minutes (2 innovators)

  • Food storage: 3 hours and 6 minutes (2 innovators)

  • Adobe shelters: 3 hours and 48 minutes (4 innovators)

• Hunters: results of what each hunter or hunters brought from each section (better tools like spears will help you increase your results):

  • Section A: 5 deer, 3 boar, 9 rabbits and 5 cows.

  • Section B: 6 deer, 3 boar, 7 rabbits and 3 cows.

  • Section C: 3 deer, 3 boar, 11 rabbits and 7 cows.

  • Section D: 1 deer, 2 boar, 5 rabbits and 4 cows.

• Fishermen: results of what each fisherman or fishermen brought from each section (better tools like fishing rods will help you increase your results):

  • Section A: 1 carp, 1 trout and 1 salmon.

  • Section B: 1 carp, 1 trout, 1 salmon and 1 cod.

  • Section C: 1 carp, 1 salmon and 1 cod.

  • Section D: nothing.

• Gatherers: results of what each gatherer o gatherers brought from each section (better tools like pickaxes or axes will help you increase your results):

  • Section A: 32 fruits, 25 vegetables, 70 stone and 42 wood. (1 gatherer)

  • Section B: 48 fruits, 36 vegetables, 60 stone and 24 wood. (2 gatherers)

  • Section C: 21 fruits, 25 vegetables, 88 stone and 53 wood. (1 gatherer)

  • Section D: 0 fruits, 0 vegetables, 0 stone and 0 wood.

• Manufacturers: results from a day’s work (currently working 8 hours a day, you can vote to change this number):

  • Axes: 13 (1 manufacturer) (13 wood and 26 stone)

  • Spears: 9 (1 manufacturer) (9 wood and 9 stone)

  • Pickaxes: 18 (2 manufacturers) (18 wood and 36 stone)

  • Torches: 16 (1 manufacturer) (32 wood)

Results from this depend on: level of difficulty, adversities (this numbers will go lower as you get more experience) and number of people involved.

Ok so it seems that the creator has mysteriously disappeared, is this part of the experiment? Maybe, but if he doesn’t return we will need to elect a new leader. If you would like to be the new leader, comment on this post indicating so. Once we have enough candidates I will hold a ranked choice vote to see who the leader will be.

This is going to be the name of our world. I chose the two most popular options from the meeting. Choose well!

Ascella is the name of a star constellation and just sounds cool. It roughly translates to "armpit" in Italian which is kind of funny because it represents our simulation's potential outcomes. We will either shine brightly and thrive like a star would, or we can fail and be the armpit. What beautiful duality!

Redditopia is short and sweet. Its simple, straight forward, and easy to understand. It does the job we want it to, but its also a little boring.

There were also a few mentioned by u/PurpleHawk222

Valkada. Val-kada

Crowdisea. Crow-dis-ea

Poncorla. Pon-cor-la

Soroseo. Sor-o-seo

With that being said, shine bright everyone!

We have gathered food but haven’t found a way to distribute it yet. I would like some suggestions in the comments as to how we should go about distributing food, and what we will do with surplus. Currently we don’t have any long term storage options for food, this is something innovators should work on.

Once we have a food system we should establish a new role of food manager, which will keep track of food, facilitate cooking and storage of foods, and facilitate distribution of food.

Please vote which system out of these you think would be best for making decisions. I made a post detailing some of the systems.

We won’t necessarily go off of this, but we just want to hear the general populations opinion on this.

• Legislators: one of you must act as representative and, under this post, tell me which decision-making system have you chosen just so I can prepare for it. THERE ARE FIVE LEGISLATORS

• Gatherers: divide into groups to cover each section (you can leave one section alone) (Sections: A, B, C and D). THERE ARE SIX GATHERERS

• Hunters and fisherman: tell me how many are going of you are going to hunt tomorrow and how many are going to fish (don't worry this is not a permanent decision) and tell me which sections is each one of you going to cover (Sections: A, B, C and D). THERE ARE TEN HUNTERS AND FISHERMEN

• Innovators: determine how many of you are going to work on each project (Projects: fire, basic tools and basic constructions). THERE ARE EIGHT INNOVATORS

• Manufacturers: you don't have to do anything for today, but you could start deciding who is going to produce which tool (who is going to be fabricating: axes, pickaxes or spears).

NEEDS TO BE DONE BEFORE TOMORROW AT 7AM (EST)

A place for members of r/improvingtheworld to chat with each other

I think it's time for us to let go guys. It's been fun, but the energy is so low and no one is responding or doing their tasks so we may as well stop. I personally would still (albeit hesitantly) be willing to continue, but unless there is a sudden surge of activity then there isn't much me and the other moderators can do at this point.

I'd like to say thank you for anyone who has been here for from the start or even came to this sub recently. The little time we did the simulation has been fun, that's for sure! :D

So bye, and yh fly high everyone 👋

Your narrator (used to be innovator), Infinite.

(It makes me laugh to think of this all as one big metaphor to say that humanity is fucked-)

First of all, we need food distributors. I suggest one of the legislators set a law stating how much food each person gets per day. We desperately need a legislator who can add todays earnings to yesterdays inventory, post that new inventory, and then ration out an appropriate ammount of food to all members. If food isnt distributed then we all starve and die.

Second we need a manufacturer to switch to making hunting knives, preferably one who is currently making pickaxes as there are two of you, so we can finally start getting furs. We have the ability to do these things but nobody has actually done it yet. I havent seen a single fur obtained in the results page, so please manufacturers, make some knives.

Here are the results of the day:

• Innovations: duration times depend on the difficulty of the investigation, adversities along the investigation and number of innovators on each project.

  • Basic animal domestication: 4 hours and 18 minutes (2 innovators)

  • Basic farming practices: 3 hours and 48 minutes (4 innovators)

  • Mining copper and copper tools: 6 hours (2 innovators)

• Hunters: results of what each hunter or hunters brought from each section (spears improved your results):

  • Section A: 7 deer, 4 boar, 13 rabbits and 8 cows. (1 hunter)

  • Section B: 0 deer, 0 boar, 0 rabbits and 0 cows.

  • Section C: 5 deer, 4 boar, 16 rabbits and 10 cows. (1 hunter)

  • Section D: 2 deer, 7 boar, 13 rabbits and 11 cows. (1 hunter)

• Fishermen: results of what each fisherman or fishermen brought from each section (better tools like fishing rods will help you increase your results):

  • Section A: 1 carp, 1 trout, 1 salmon and 1 cod. (1 fisherman)

  • Section B: 1 carp, 1 trout, 1 salmon and 1 cod. (1 fisherman)

  • Section C: 1 carp, 1 salmon and 1 cod. (1 fisherman)

  • Section D: nothing.

• Gatherers: results of what each gatherer o gatherers brought from each section (pickaxes and axes improved your results):

  • Section A: 54 fruits, 42 vegetables, 120 stone and 72 wood. (1 gatherer)

  • Section B: 84 fruits, 63 vegetables, 105 stone and 42 wood. (2 gatherers)

  • Section C: 36 fruits, 42 vegetables, 150 stone and 90 wood. (1 gatherer)

  • Section D: 24 fruits, 66 vegetables, 120 stone and 102 wood. (1 gatherer)

• Manufacturers: results from a day’s work (currently working 8 hours a day, you can vote to change this number):

  • Axes: 13 (1 manufacturer) (13 wood and 26 stone)

  • Spears: 9 (1 manufacturer) (9 wood and 9 stone)

  • Pickaxes: 18 (2 manufacturers) (18 wood and 36 stone)

  • Torches: 16 (1 manufacturer) (32 wood)

  • Hunting knives: 0

Results from this depend on: level of difficulty, adversities (this numbers will go lower as you get more experience)

The simulation will launch at 4:00PM (Eastern Standard Time)

I can't wait for you guys to see what I have in store for you all

Until then, I will keep working on the simulator to perfect it

Thanks for your support so far,

The Creator

These are the people that make the books, plays, and artwork. Writing hasn’t been invented yet so for now these people will just draw stick figures in stone tablets. They tell stories of gods and heavily influence religion and culture. Sometimes their stories contain criticism of the government, which can change people’s opinions on the government. They can also be historians who tell of the stories of the past

A role suggestion for a religion and people in that religion to be added