Design Your Own Fallout Vault

[Melon Hunter]

One person, alone in a vault, they would have all the basics they would need, entertainment, food, water, medicine. The study would be to see how long it would take someone to go insane without anyone else around. If the subject goes a specific amount of time without going insane, I start playing sound clips of people talking while they are awake and asleep, and creepy music, you know to force the insanity. Then I would study how an insane man would cope.

EDIT:

The vault will be fucking safe and it will actually ensure the survuval of the people inside. So far that seems pretty unique for Fallout. (vaults 101, 13, and 8 aside)

Wasn't Vault 101 designed to test how humans would cope with a limited gene pool, because people were not allowed to go outside, or allow people inside? To see if they would inbreed and stuff like that?

No I think it was too see how humans cope with never leaving the vault for their entire lives, it was never, ever supposed to open. Im not sure what 13's experiment was though exactly

I think 13 was the same, or at least it wasn't meant to open for a very long time (200 years, I believe).

What about a Vault where there was no Overseer, and anything of importance would be sorted by a Vault-wide ballot? Would this result in pure democracy, or would someone try and gain power through force and intimidation? The only thing guaranteed is that someone will screw it up and kill everyone in the Vault, leaving the next Wasteland hero to come along about 200 years later and nose about in the deserted halls, wondering what the hell happened here.

 

[HHammond]

Take two groups. One male and one female. Seperate them and make them believe there is no other group. Somehow, make it so that breeding is possible (IVF? Maybe babies actually made in labs? Somehow they'd have to control the sex) and see how long until the sweet gay love starts. Then reintroduce the two groups and seize the lab babies and see how they react. Does the social norm shift back to straight man/woman relationships or does it remain mostly homosexual or perhaps somewhere inbetween.

 

[Captain Pirate]

The Vault is split into two sides.
One side is pretty much a normal vault, tons of normal people, food generation a la the Sierra Madre's vending machines, pure water supply yadda yadda yadda.
The other side is like the other one, full of nourishment and entertainment.
Except it is home to one man.
His side of the vault is completely sealed off from the other vault, except for a secret system that will unlock a door to the other side of the vault.
This code is obtainable by thoroughly studying the 'Vault Resident's Manual' which, if checked for patterns in the text, tells him to pull out the books of a bookshelf in a certain order, before hearing the message the overseer gives him. He then has to figure out a second code and tell it to the overseer, and once he does, the vault sides are joined.
If the man dies before he can figure it out, a boy is taken from the populated side by the overseer when it is 4 years old, and given to the empty side and looked over the overseer's Mrs Handy, a special Mr Handy designed for mothering children.
Test: To see if a man can be so driven to escape from loneliness that he will search desperately for companionship.

Another one would be that a man is put in a vault designed for one person. It has everything he could possibly want, but only a single bedroom, toilet etc.
However, the overseer is an AI that has a quirky, happy, interesting personality, and is designed to keep him company.
Through the use of unique drugs the man has to take every year, the man can live indefinitely.
(Don't ask me how it's possible, just roll with it)
The test is to see if the man can stay completely sane with a relative life of luxury and a friend who he can only talk to.

 

[Voulan]

1) Split female and male into two groups. The female group would be made the leaders, constantly, over the men. They would control all operations in the vault, and would always have a female overseer.

The experiment: to see the true reality of male dominance as a cultural construction, rather than a biological one.

2) Only educate the vault dwellers to the education level of five year olds.

The experiment: to see the capabilities and overall child-view of societal structures. Can children be more equal and 'understanding' of each other than adults?

3) Split into three groups. Only expose each group to Walt Disney films, new Disney films and Justin Beiber respectively. After a suitable amount of exposure, release them onto each other.

The experiment: to see the effects of insanity induced by exposure to things of such horror. The first group, looking at Walt Disney, will likely be the control group. ;D
(Further experimentation would be to expose the other two groups to a fourth group exposed to nothing but heavy metal and violent cinema).

4) Play nothing but unanimously popular media. Such media would include examples such as season one Pokemon, U2 music, Chuck Norris, old-school games, MLP, etc.

The experiment: To see the effects of prolonged exposure to awesome.

 

[Delsana]

Blueprints for maximum security prison, military, experimentation, and stasis vault.

Codename: Vault Omega

Room 0: (Maintenance ladder from Room 3) Automated Vault overflow venting station.
Room 1: Vault door - entrance.
Room 2: (One passage forward from Room 1) Environmental hazard and mass-decontamination chamber.
Room 3: (One passage up from Room 2) Primary storage cells for transit. [Secured]
Room 4: (One passage down from Room 2) Automated security checkpoint. [Secured]
Room 5: (Elevator passage down from Room 4) Primary security checkpoint. [Secured]
Room 6: (One passage forward from Room 5) Processing center. [Observed]
Room 7: (One passage down from Room 6) Prison Block - A. [Observed]
Room 8: (One passage left from Room 7) Surveillance office A. [Secured]
Room 9: (One passage right from Room 7) Interrogation room A. [Observed]
Room 10: (One passage down from Room 7) Transfer checkpoint. [Secured]
Room 11: (Elevator passage down from Room 10) Secondary security checkpoint. [Secured]
Room 12: (One passage forward from Room 11) Processing center. [Observed]
Room 13: (One passage down from Room 12) Prison Block - B. [Observed]
Room 14: (One passage left from Room 13) Surveillance office B. [Secured]
Room 15: (One passage right from Room 13) Interrogation room B. [Observed]
Room 16: (One passage down from Room 13) Transfer checkpoint. [Secured]
Room 17: (Three passages leading down from Room 16) Security Outpost. [High Security]
Room 18: (One passage left from Room 17) Dormitory Block A.
Room 19: (One passage right from Room 17) Dormitory Block B.
Room 20: (One passage behind Room 17) Administration offices. [Restricted]
Room 21: (One passage straight from Room 17) Recreation chambers.
Room 22: (Three passages leading down from Room 17) Cafeteria.
Room 23: (One passage left from Room 22) Entertainment block.
Room 24: (One passage right from Room 22) Education block.
Room 25: (One passage down from Room 22) Transfer checkpoint. [Restricted]
Room 26: (Elevator passage down from Room 25) Cloning Chambers. [Automated Security]
Room 27: (Elevator passage down from Room 26) Stasis Chambers. [Automated Security]
Room 28: (Elevator passage down from Room 27) Laboratories. [Restricted]
Room 29: (Two passages leading left from Room 28) Automated manufacturing chamber.
Room 30: (Two passages leading right from Room 28) Automated manufacturing chamber.
Room 31: (One passage forward from Room 28) Restricted Access Gateway. [Automated Security]
Room 32: (One passage forward from Room 31) Secondary Power Reactors. [Restricted]
Room 33: (One passage forward from Room 32) Restricted Access Gateway. [Automated Security]
Room 34: (One passage down from Room 33) Primary Power Reactor. [Restricted]
Room 35: (One passage down from Room 28) Secondary Security Checkpoint. [Automated Security]
Room 36: (One passage down from Room 35) Hangar. [Automated Security]
Room 37: (One flight corridor leading forward from Room 36) Deployment Gantry & Elevators.
Room 38: (Five elevators leading up from Room 37) Deployment Zone.
Room 39: (Five launch pads leading forward from Room 38) Launch Point.
Room 40: (Five launch bays leading forward from Room 39) Vertibird-Vault access passage.
Room 41: (Eight elevators leading up from secured zones) Transit station.

Purpose: Secret security station and prison meant for transfer to Enclave.
Secondary Purpose: High-priority stasis zone.
Experiment: Torture and manipulation of prisoners and after-nuclear bombardment captives into indoctrinated servitude.
Secondary Experiment: Cloning for valued officers and indoctrinated soldiers to skip further indoctrination needs.

 

[Pandabearparade]

A maximum-capacity reproduction Vault.

A vault with a dozen power generators, creating a massive surplus of food and goods, so that is never even close to a problem.

The catch is that every decade the population has to double, or the entire vault population is killed off.

 

[Lev The Red]

i would have two separate vaults built right next each other with a single, hidden door connecting them. each half would be composed of people from a single, insular, uniform society founded on strict moral/ethical rules and are instructed to live according to and teach their offspring their ways. for example, one half would be made up of strict southern baptists and the other heavily intellectual, or one half organizing itself based on a capitalist system and the other being completely communal. the door connecting them should be well hidden and the opposing vaults should mirror each other so that the door is in the same room in side A as it is in side B. beyond their beliefs, the vaults themselves would be identical, with adequate food, water, power, and other supplies.
the experiment would examine how both sides react to the other when they discover the door connecting them.

 

[Delsana]

To capitalize on another person's idea, I'll also throw in the vault idea for just a vault full of naked people, with all the basics of a vault and living comfortably, but everyone is naked, there is no such thing as clothes whatsoever and all history and things that could lead to clothes are removed and if somehow made automatically and secretly destroyed.

 

[Delsana]

Only drinks available are alcoholic. Only food available is pizza. Only music played is 'Never Gonna Give You Up'

Point of vault experiment; fuck knows but it'll be a laugh finding out!

This would turn out fine with a few tweaks but it could be done without any negatives..

 

[Bravo 21]

raise 2 separate groups of people, one trained to be as physically capable as possible, but given only limited education, the other to be physically weak or overweight, but mentally formidable. Then, i will set them to fighting each other, and I shall see, do brains really beat brawn?

 

[Lev The Red]

The catch is that every decade the population has to double, or the entire vault population is killed off.

the vault is doomed from the start. even if they are able to increase their population as required, the vault will eventually run out of food and supplies because of the booming population, causing the population to crash and forcing the vault to kill everyone. there would be nothing to study.

 

[Lev The Red]

oh, one more:

the vault is huge. at least 3 times the size as a normal vault, with 3 times the food, water, power, and other supplies. but the starting population is 1/3 the size.
how will they mange their supplies and space?

 

[Pandabearparade]

the vault is doomed from the start. even if they are able to increase their population as required, the vault will eventually run out of food and supplies because of the booming population, causing the population to crash and forcing the vault to kill everyone. there would be nothing to study.

Let's be honest, there isn't much to study in any of the vault projects. They're just cruel practical jokes.

Though one could say that it's a giant amateur porn studio for the benefit of the Enclave on their trip into outer space.

 

[N_of_the_dead]

One that comes to my head that no one has mentioned is a vault that has an over abundance of firearms/weapons or can produce them easily.

experiment: see how long it takes till they start killing each other off or see if it affects their social attitude

another one with the same style vault but ad pacifists where the experiment is to see how long it takes for a pacifist to be driven to arms.

 

[Wuvlycuddles]

Only food stocked will be tins of soup, while there will be plenty of variety in the soup stocked there will be no spoons... only forks.

 

[Tonz of Fun]

My vault would have opened 100 years after the war and during those years they would have been taught to be kind-souled, religious individuals but 2 weeks before the door would open the would have to throw away those feelings and take up arms and begin the practicing with the large stored up cache of weapons because there would be now closing the vault door after it opens.

 

[Zeema]

Vault 8008

posters of Internet Meme's
Never goin give you up and other internet songs are played over the speaker

and at random times there would be Dance Parties and no sleep only drinks are Red Bull's

 

[Alssadar]

Fill a vault with a small number of people, and then a wide number of domestic species.
(Not a biology/fungus experiment... god damn, I hate those)
This is to see if by the time of the release, if any amount of animal DNA might wind up in the human strands, and thus, possible changes in the human species. (Besides FEV)