If you could create a Fallout Vault experiment, what would you do?

[spoonish]

what about a vault with 400 halo fanboys and 400 halflife fanboys, and replace the jumpsuits with spartan armor and hev suits.

i guess tossing in a few crowbars wouldnt hurt either

 

[kemosabi4]

what about a vault with 400 halo fanboys and 400 halflife fanboys, and replace the jumpsuits with spartan armor and hev suits.

i guess tossing in a few crowbars wouldnt hurt either

You were there too, I'm guessing?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.126932?

 

[manaman]

Build a Vault with food dispensers that constantly dispense food, all the fatty stuff. Release a gas into the air that nullifies the brains signals that tell people to "Stop eating, fatty!".
All the jumpsuit extruding machines release incredibly comfortable and extravagant clothing, not just the jumpsuits.
Also the entire Vault is furnished like a ludicrously wealthy, vice enjoying billionaire, with all sorts of extravagances that people enjoy.

Then after around 50 or so years, assuming that the people haven't gotten so fat that they can't procreate, take it all away.
A series of bizarre accidents disables most of the Vaults entertainment areas, leaving the Overseers office, the living areas, and basically anywhere you can't have fun, intact.
The jumpsuits produced are now horribly itchy, and break down easily.
The food dispenser still produce the same types of food, just only enough to feed half the Vault. Also, that gas is still pumping.
Then after another 25 years, the Vault opens.

The Aim: See what happens when you give people everything they want, then take it away from them, especially after that are so used to it.

Hypothesis: Cannibalism, at least at some point.

That is 75 years. The people that initially went into the vault will be dead or nearly there. The majority will either have lived all their lives with the crappy stuff, or most of it.

 

[phatty500]

introduce a highly addictive drug into the water for a year then get rid of it see how people cope with the withdrawel

 

[El Camarado]

introduce a highly addictive drug into the water for a year then get rid of it see how people cope with the withdrawel

They'd probably drink theirselves to death by then...

 

[Corpse XxX]

And now for something completely different

I would give the vault inhabitants all they need to live, fresh water and food..
But i would irritate them to pieces in the entertainment department..

Everything entertainment wise would have some flaws to it..
-The tv would be without sound and subtitles
-The monopoly game would miss a couple of streets and hotels
-The ps3/xbox controllers would have 1 or 2 buttons on it not working properly and the bots would be on superhuman difficult and impossible to beat..
-The cd player would only play 10 seconds of each song
-The football would not be properly inflated
-The radio would never have good reception

I can only imagine the carnage that would happen when people go utterly insane..
Actually, the could well use this idea as a reality show come to think of it..

 

[MrLS]

The stereo only play Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers on highest volume, And the volume switch is removed.

To see how long they hold out before going insane and murderous.

 

[El Camarado]

And now for something completely different

I would give the vault inhabitants all they need to live, fresh water and food..
But i would irritate them to pieces in the entertainment department..

Everything entertainment wise would have some flaws to it..
-The tv would be without sound and subtitles
-The monopoly game would miss a couple of streets and hotels
-The ps3/xbox controllers would have 1 or 2 buttons on it not working properly and the bots would be on superhuman difficult and impossible to beat..
-The cd player would only play 10 seconds of each song
-The football would not be properly inflated
-The radio would never have good reception

I can only imagine the carnage that would happen when people go utterly insane..
Actually, the could well use this idea as a reality show come to think of it..

I really like that idea, but I think it should also apply to more prototypical things as well. Ie: all the decks of playing cards in the vault would be missing the 7 of spades, 9 of diamonds, and would all come with a 23 of clubs. The vaults would have marbles, but the shooters would be made of clay, and the normal marbles would be made of steel (the same goes for pool and billiard, in which the cue ball would be made of clay, and the pool/billiard balls would be made of steel.) People would have their index and middle fingers wonder-glued together to make sure they cannot play rock-paper-scissors (they could only have paper.) That way, even with old games like that, nobody is exempt from the insanity!

Another idea for a vault:

Replace all the water with highly sugary heavily caffeninated soda. Raise the temperature in the vault to 100 degress farenheit (38 degress celsius.) Also, for extra evilness, have the lights be exceptionally bright, with no way to turn them off (no one will be able to sleep, so they drink the soda), and also half the number of toilets and urinals.

Conclusion: The people would have a hard time sleeping, and if they did manage to get to sleep, they would be very energetic. Either way, the people working with heavy machinery would have a lot of accidents (a possible bonus extra evilness would be to have them have to continue to work even if they have had a major accident.) And the lines for the bathroom would be very long. Chances are, they would either go insane, have a lot of people die from industrial accidents, caffeine overdosage, sugar poisoning, drinking too much, or from the heat in the vault.

And another:

Make a vault with a cloning lab. Make "back up clones" of everyone. Make them all think they are the originals (ie: give them all of their memories, everything.) and have one of each clone in the "actual vault" (not the lab) at a time. Then start killing them, for bonus sadistic laughs, replace the ones that died with clones shortly after they died. See how the rest respond.

 

[Robz_Defheadz]

I would give everyone what they need to survive, enough food and water as well as clothing. The only catch, or catches if you wish. Would be that there are no lights of any kind. It would be completely pitch black. Also a modified FEV gas would be pumped in subtly. This gas would would mutate the eyes of the people inside so that they can see in the dark. As well as slowly degrading the minds of the weak willed.

Result when the vault opens 50 years later. People with really sensitive eyes being released into a very bright world. Or all being dead or inbred mutants.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Periodically release a noxious smell from air-vents, and see who gets the blame for farting.

 

[blaze96]

I would make a vault of military indoctrination, like that of the Spartans except for the modern era (so something like Spetsnaz). The basic tenants of my civilization are as follows

Reproduction is paramount, every family is to have as many children as possible

Military training is mandatory for every member of the vault from the age of 6 (this includes everything from PT, to weapons training, to tactics)

Education is also mandatory from the age of 6 as well, with the only people exempted from military service are those that prove themselves to be exemplary at a science or engineering

Our people will welcome with open arms all that wish to join us as long as they agree to abide by our laws and customs

I myself am to be held and maintained in suspended animation for one hundred years and am leader for life (with the overseer acting as my second in command upon my revival). Let the tech develop for around a hundred years, come out out of suspended animation, take my rightful role as ruler, open the vault, and start creating a new civilization/Empire in the wasteland. Conquering and integrating all into my civilization who wish to join and using their skills for the benefit of all. Any conquered who do not willingly join the civilization are subjugated and work on improving the land, but are compensated for their work in food and fresh water, the harder you work, the more you get.

 

[Beltom]

Mine would have a very large population, say 1000, and they would all have everything they desired; good food, nice clothes, 24/7 entertainment. It would be a paradise.
However, at the back of the Vault there would be one room that is locked and which the residents are told never to enter under any circumstances. After several years I would start introducing things that try and tempt the residents into opening the back room; like adverts on the television and the radio, introducing rumours as to what's inside.
I would see how long it takes for someone to open the back room, and when they do the door will close behind them and deadly gas would be released into the room, killing the occupant. Automated systems inside the room would clear away the body and wait for the next person to see what is inside.
The idea behind this experiment is to see how people deal with a big secret they are forbidden to know and what other ideas people would come up with about the room when people start disappearing.
I probably didn't word this as well as I could but i'm tired and it made sense in my head.

 

[johnman]

That's sick.
wait, that's the point...
Doesn't matter, don't mess with da catz!


OT:
I would lock everyone up, and then kill one person. Make it look like murder, and then watch them try to figure out who it was. Then systematically kill everyone off, leaving two people. Then watch what happens

And if you befriended those two people they would rule you out as a suspect and kill eachother.

"Well it cant possibly be you, I've know you for a good 2 minutes and you have a similar veiw piont on one or two things I said. It must of been that dark elf that has'nt beeen out my sight, have at you!"

 

[GoldenRaz]

I'd make an experiment to try to force evolution, by having two Vaults; one where it's rather cold and one where it's rather warm. I would then make it so that the population would breed faster, maybe by releasing an aphrodysiac in the venting system. As the years go by, the temperature in the Vaults would slowly lower or rise, respectively, forcing the Vaults' residents to continue to adapt to increasingly different enviroments.
Edit: Oh, and no weapons in either Vault.

Wait a number of hundred years, see how the populations from either Vault differs from eachother, and if they have adapted according to our perception of how evolution works.
Have they evolved to new species, or can they still mate with "standard" humans?
Can they mate with eachother?
Who would survive the best in a standard Vault's enviroment? (as in that of one of the control Vaults)
Who would survive best in the other's Vault?
Who would survive the best in the Wasteland?
And finally, who would win in a fight?

Edit: BTW, the Vaults were never made to save people, they were made to perform experiments on humans. The only ones who are even close to being what Vault-Tec advertised them as are the control Vaults, where the population would serve as a point of reference for the results of the other Vaults.

 

[Crossborder]

Give the people in there only 1/2 of the food they need and give them all one shovel.
What do YOU think will happen?

Start your bids:

 

[Baldry]

Personally id pack it full with fat men and mini nukes, i'd put some elite soliders in there and give then advanced armour which was embeded with the explosives that are in the slave collars and then after they've been out for a couple of weeks il order them to head back or kaboom

 

[Clarkarius]

Go for the Tau philosphy of having a Vault made up of the strongest and most combat abled people in order to reclaim the wasteland from the Super Mutants. Apart from that though it would just be a standard Vault with more adavnced exercise facilities, food storage and an armoury. An in door farm would also be useful...

 

[CptCamoPants]

Moral choices are boring. That's why I would spice mine up a little bit. I would leave the vault door open, place a homing beacon and the codes to the door in someone's food, then watch them try not to kill him. It would happen eventually, it would just be fun watching them restrain themselves.

A cookie to the first person who comes up with a solution to keep him from passing it.

Cheese. Lots and lots of cheese.