Cheating monkeys undermine group strength in enemy territory.

WHEN TERRITORIAL SALAMANDERS CHEAT: A TEST OF THE DEAR ENEMY PHENOMENON IN SOUTHERN RED-BACKED SALAMANDERS. Kenzie

ENEMY PHENOMENON IN SOUTHERN RED-BACKED SALAMANDERS. Kenzie Medley, Biology. Faculty Advisor: Dr. Alicia Mathis The “dear enemy” hypothesis states that a territory owner shows reduced aggression toward a neighbor once territorial boundaries are established. Neighbors that do not restrict their activity to the agreed upon territory boundaries can be characterized as “cheaters” and might be subje...

Enemy Territory Traffic Analysis

We analyse the network traffic of the online multiplayer first person shooter game Enemy Territory. The game is based on the Quake 3 game engine but has more complex gaming rules. The data analysed is taken from a public game server run at CAIA, and corresponds to real gaming traffic. Measuring the packet length, inter-arrival time and bandwidth in both directions, this paper describes the impa...

Rethinking Devolution: Challenges for Aboriginal Resource Management in the Yukon Territory

Targeting Civilians in Ethno-Territorial Wars: Power- and Preference-Based Sources of Ethnic Cleansing and Mass Killing Strategies

In internal ethno-territorial conflicts, what explains why state or rebel group leaderships use civilian-targeting strategies—expulsion or mass killing strategies designed to punish enemy civilians or to decimate the enemy civilian presence on contested territory? One argument is that those living under the worst initial conditions—defined in terms of collective goods such as weak collective au...

Distribution of IP Source Addresses Experienced By Wolfenstein Enemy Territory Game Servers

Online multiplayer first person shooter (FPS) games typically limit themselves to between 4 and 30+ concurrent players, seemingly limiting the number of source IP addresses seen over time. However, this report demonstrates how common FPS game servers usually ‘experience’ traffic from hundreds of unique IP source addresses every minute, regardless of an individual game server’s popularity or loc...