My response to an interesting debate in the game Die2nite

Today there was an interesting debate int the game Die2nite. Die2nite is a zombie survival game, in which players in a town (at max. 40) contribute to upgrading the town's defense to survive the zombie attack every mid-night. The players need to go scavenging to find useful materials which are needed to construct various buildings for the town, construct the buildings or make something for their own house by finding something themselves or taking something from the Bank of the town.

The debate was about whether any player can have their own private goals for upgrading their own house. One player was severely condemned by several other players when that player took what he found in scavenging to upgrade his own house. He claims that it will make the game more fun and he denounces socialism/communism.

In response of the debate and supporting communism for this game, I wrote the following reply:

There is no ideal political system. It all depends on time and the particular circumstances. Socialism/communism at some time is perfect, like this.
It is crucial to understand one major difference between the real world and this game. In the real world (let’s say the US), the life purposes of an individual are split into private goals and common goals. The private goals are achieved through private ownership. The common goals are achieved through non-100% taxation. This split is possible because in reality people enjoy a high degree of peace from outside group attack—i.e. free from war. But in this game, we are facing forever war. And the enemy is forever-growing. So, we cannot have private goals, which will be at the cost of the common goals of defense, victory and survival. It will also be at the cost of other town members' efforts and sacrifice. Therefore, I agree with Diotisalvi and KillerByten that communism is the only way and the best way to play this game. Selfishness will definitely lead to destruction--common and individual destruction.

However, this game still allows us to practice democracy. If the majority of the town agree with some degree of private goals, even heroes like Diotisalvi and KillerByten cannot stop that from happening. The complaint system to kick members out town is built upon the ideal and mechanism of democracy.

But now we shall exercise democracy to vote for communism in this village. We can exercise democracy to make some changes from communism at proper time—when the circumstances change (if this will ever happen).