It's 11 minutes, as I start typing this, until the end of our particular world.  Our town kept alive for a long time.  Ours was one of the few that made it all the way to day 12 since Die2Nite 1.0 was released.  I'm a bit exhausted with the game, especially after I returned home from gathering materials to find all my stuff had been stolen from my house in some petty act of resource gathering now that our town is in chaos.  Resources were hoarded and spent without regard for their other possible uses.  I never did get to put a battery in the little lamp I'd had since the beginning (which was stolen and later recovered).  I'll be clutching that, along with a can opener, come midnight.  It's more symbolic than anything, since I know we're all going to die.
 
Another of us has managed to keep 4 fat little cats alive, including one that I named Whences whom we found on an expedition in the north in happier times.  For a long while I thought they'd butchered little Whences for his meat, but it seems this sensitive soul gave him a good home.  As I said in the forums, I hope the little guys break free at the last moment and become the last survivors of the town, even though I know it will all be erased when we die.
 
It turns out there really was some remorseless removal of defensive systems, which benefited the whole town, in favor of bulking up individual dwellings. This probably resulted in more deaths than there should have been.  There's been the usual cowardly distancing from their actions, talking about how they survived because of it (I survived and didn't need to steal anything, so that logic falls through). Was a bitter coda for me, and I think it soured me to the game a bit to know that this behavior seems encouraged because when you begin a new character's life, you may get special abilities based upon whether or not you were the last to die.  If some people are likely to die BEFORE that's determined, there's a "better them than us" mentality that erodes camaraderie for the fair-weather friends of the group.
 
I'll be glad to get rid of most of these ugly survivalists, but the idea of starting over with a potentially worse group doesn't seem very appealing.  That's one problem I have with this game: unless I misunderstand, I'm always going to be seeded into a new town after my old town is lost to me.  Always.  It's not like other online games, say RPGs, where it's up to you how much time you want to put into it. I put time in whether or not my character is active at all.
 
I'd rather not have my character associated with inactivity, but I'm not sure I want to put myself through another experience of trying to get newbies to ask questions and be involved.  Sort of like that guy from Brazil; I think I may take a mental holiday.
 
In a few seconds, it's all going to end.
 

It's 11 minutes, as I start typing this, until the end of our particular world.  Our town kept alive for a long time.  Ours was one of the few that made it all the way to day 12 since Die2Nite 1.0 was released.  I'm a bit exhausted with the game, especially after I returned home from gathering materials to find all my stuff had been stolen from my house in some petty act of resource gathering now that our town is in chaos.  Resources were hoarded and spent without regard for their other possible uses.  I never did get to put a battery in the little lamp I'd had since the beginning (which was stolen and later recovered).  I'll be clutching that, along with a can opener, come midnight.  It's more symbolic than anything, since I know we're all going to die.
 
Another of us has managed to keep 4 fat little cats alive, including one that I named Whences whom we found on an expedition in the north in happier times.  For a long while I thought they'd butchered little Whences for his meat, but it seems this sensitive soul gave him a good home.  As I said in the forums, I hope the little guys break free at the last moment and become the last survivors of the town, even though I know it will all be erased when we die.
 
It turns out there really was some remorseless removal of defensive systems, which benefited the whole town, in favor of bulking up individual dwellings. This probably resulted in more deaths than there should have been.  There's been the usual cowardly distancing from their actions, talking about how they survived because of it (I survived and didn't need to steal anything, so that logic falls through). Was a bitter coda for me, and I think it soured me to the game a bit to know that this behavior seems encouraged because when you begin a new character's life, you may get special abilities based upon whether or not you were the last to die.  If some people are likely to die BEFORE that's determined, there's a "better them than us" mentality that erodes camaraderie for the fair-weather friends of the group.
 
I'll be glad to get rid of most of these ugly survivalists, but the idea of starting over with a potentially worse group doesn't seem very appealing.  That's one problem I have with this game: unless I misunderstand, I'm always going to be seeded into a new town after my old town is lost to me.  Always.  It's not like other online games, say RPGs, where it's up to you how much time you want to put into it. I put time in whether or not my character is active at all.
 
I'd rather not have my character associated with inactivity, but I'm not sure I want to put myself through another experience of trying to get newbies to ask questions and be involved.  Sort of like that guy from Brazil; I think I may take a mental holiday.
 
In a few seconds, it's all going to end.
 

Sounds like a pretty interesting social experiment thing. Sounds hard to strike a balance between using resources for individual players and making sure there's enough to go around.
 
I'll consider it if I eat a red ring of death during Arkham Asylum or Red Dead Redemption (knowing my luck, I totally will).
 
Also, dude's wearing a vault outfit. Nice.

 It's a shame that being out for yourself is somewhat rewarded, but at least people have to cooperate sometimes -- and if people DO get selfish, they contribute to the death of everyone, whether or not they realize it.    

" @Jeust:  I get some distinctions for people registering under my username. It doesn't give me any direct reward unless people actually make purchases I think, but it won't be any imposition to people who register using it either. It also gives me awards if enough people register, but those awards are just little badges or whatever.  I'd appreciate it if you did, but it's certainly not required.  If it was a freeform social experience it would be different. Because there's structure, and because there's rules (there pretty much has to be for it to be a worthwhile game), those rules influence how people interact. If you were told "don't worry, when we all die from the zombie apocalypse we'll all be resurrected in other towns that are starting over, and the last one of us to die will get hero advantages for a few days, so let's fight over the remaining resources like animals to try to outlive one another" it doesn't feel quite like a simulation, unless you want to talk religion :) "

 When chaos erupts it changes the rules, making it harder, actually, to enact justice.