Spreadsheets-in-Space: A Quantitative Exploration of Movement, Currency Creation, and Conflict within EVE Online

<p>EVE Online is a massively-multiplayer online game with complex interactions between players and their unique, virtual environment. These relationships are the ongoing results of a conflict-driven economy, but they vary both in duration and by location. </p> <p>This study attempts to quantify the direct effects of movement and indirect effects of conflict upon economic activity in the form of currency creation and delineate how successfully these relationships can be quantified by narrower time-spans and areas. Results of the mediation models used in this exploration indicate the changing relationship between movement (Ship Jumps), conflict (Ship Kills), and currency creation (Faction Kills) is measurable, but they demonstrate the difficulty in assessing the effects in smaller time-spans. </p> <p>The success and difficulty of this study in attaining more granular results reinforces the value of longitudinal statistics to model in-game relationships for successful, long-term game analysis and development. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Geography (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Year dc:date.available

2019

Author dc:creator

• Pryor, Christopher Alan

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Davidson, Fiona M.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Paradise, Thomas R.
• Cothren, Jackson D.

• conflict
• economics
• EVE Online
• mediation
• movement
• online games
• quantitative data
• video games
• Game Design
• Human Geography
• Physical and Environmental Geography
• Public Economics

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/3236

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uark.edu:etd-4786