Game Theory: Real Tips for SURVIVING a Zombie Apocalypse (7 Days to Die)

Get on a train, fly away on a plane, build a tree around your bed, stick a knife into a

zombie

's head. Seven

days

to die You have seven

days

to die s days to die, you have days to die Hello Internet, welcome to Game Theory investigating the The science behind apocalyptic

zombie

outbreaks it's like our lives depend on it because they will and they won't it's a joke. I'm sure we all laugh at the idea of ​​the dead coming back to life to hunt us for our brains. There is more than one way to make a zombie my friend.

The zombie is, at its most basic, a relentlessly aggressive human driven by some type of blood-borne infection. Very

real

and very deadly diseases like rabies and variant Kurzfeld Jacob disease, also known as human mad cow disease, already fit the zombie. Bill displays pretty closely similar symptoms to what we normally associate with. with zombies that spread through bites and infected flesh that deteriorates the brain, heck, rabies even makes you avoid bright lights and fear water, all it would

real

ly take is for one country to tamper with these guys a little and then I threw them into the middle of a populated city. and then boom and all you can eat Brain Buffet and it is that happy thought along with a brand sponsorship that brings us to the goal of today's episode where at the end of the video you will know which is the best place in the world to overcome the inevitable zombie

apocalypse

start calling your travel agents now my friend because this is the vacation of a lifetime so as I mentioned today's episode is inspired by the

game

7 Days to Die, a zombie survival

game

from open world that was recently released on consoles for Xbox One and PS4 with a two-player split-screen mode that supports four players online in player vs. player survival co-op and creative co-op modes #sponsored it's basically Minecraft with zombies, well , Minecraft already has zombies, so it's like Minecraft with zombies that isn't cuboid.

I guess you hit things you probably shouldn't hit, like rocks and trees, to extract resources and then turn them into all sorts of anti-zombie weaponry, like stone axes. Sometimes you also use those resources to build elaborate bunkers. Really elaborate bunkers to protect you from the zombie hordes that are coming and oh yes they are coming as the game title says, you have practically 7 days to prepare before the Horde comes at you like a naked Miley Cyrus riding a wrecking ball , so hopefully you have used your time and resources effectively to weather the storm. I like to think of this game as a school fire drill, except it features the undead.

The first thing I appreciate about 7 Days to Die is the fact that you have time to prepare most of the zombies. Fiction has weakened you in some way, suddenly waking up in a world that had already fallen into chaos or the infection spread so quickly that in one day the entire world already disappeared, but honestly, that's not how the world works, Just think about how the media operates. As soon as a person contracts the Ebola or Zika virus, it's everywhere and is usually on Twitter hours before those stories start airing, if zombiesm were really becoming a thing and If you had a computer, it shouldn't catch you off guard, but the question is how much time you would really have to prepare.

Honestly, it depends a lot on where you are and what type of zombies it is. Fortunately, I have an answer for both. The official 7 Days to Die wiki explains the quote. An unknown virus is transforming humans. beings into bloodthirsty zombies, no one knows how, no one knows why and no one knows how to stop it, but as vague as it may seem, it actually helps us a lot, as we talked about earlier, this aligns with the more modern and realistic interpretation. of becoming infected by a zombie disease and epidemiologists, the people who study diseases, have done a lot of work to model how quickly all kinds of diseases spread and no joke, this includes things like our zombie virus, for this epidemiologists use models of special diseases like the sir model. which means recovered susceptible infected using this model, you can see how quickly a disease spreads through a population.

This page shows models for a bunch of our favorite diseases and what happens to a population of 100 people when they get the flu, chickenpox, and measles. It spreads the fastest, but small poox and Ebola are actually the deadliest, it's like classic fael. The turtle and the hair slowly and steadily kill the human race. However, the problem with using these traditional models for zombies is that, in general, for common diseases, you either get better. or you die keeps everything clean and tidy, but for zombies none of these things really happen, you just keep living as undead and infecting things, this means that zombie epidemics spread much faster than a normal disease and, like People are zombies, they don't realize it.

They're sick They don't go to hospitals They're not quarantined Nothing either It's a debilitating disease where you're stuck in bed recovering Being a zombie actually forces you to specifically look for uninfected people So how do you know how much? time you actually have in case of an outbreak Well, it turns out I'm not the first person to ask that question, in fact, in March of last year, Cornell did a complete epidemiological model of a zombie

apocalypse

based on models of viruses transmitted by the blood, in short, is exactly what we need, glad to see those college tuition dollars working guys, addressing the questions that really affect us all, cancer, yes the cure for that can wait, more studies on zombies Anyway, this modeling tool allows us to set our parameters and see how long it lasts.

In fact, we'll take a country like the US being invaded by a horde of zombies. In this particular simulation, we can input parameters for the spread of the virus, such as the proportion of fatal bites, how many people die from each bite. We now know that almost everyone who is bitten. per zombie becomes one, so we will set this ratio to a very low 0.2. We'll also give the zombies pretty decent mango legs for a 15-minute mile, which means these aren't your grandma's zombies, oh no, these guys are. We are going to walk quickly through the slaughter of innocent victims, we also want this to be the worst case possible, so to do that we are going to have the outbreak in the city with the busiest airport in the US, surprisingly, not It's New York, it's Atlanta.

Georgia followed closely by La, then New York and then Dallas, press the button and here we go, watch millions of people get eaten alive in front of us. Here you can see the nationwide zombie outbreak in front of you and while it may seem like it's going slow, let me give you an idea of ​​what exactly you're seeing once this virus lands in New York City, you have less than 4 hours to get off Manhattan Island before statistically everyone in New York is a zombie. 4 hours because we started the outbreak in Atlanta which has so many flights to other cities, it also means that the epidemic will not stay in Atlanta for long as it reaches almost all other US airport hubs in the first 24 hours 2 The days in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Rhode Island are gone, New Jersey too, but it's not like you can tell the difference, most of the West Coast will be wiped out once the virus reaches San Francisco and Portland a hour 42, Florida. gone in 50 which means a lot of zombie retirees will be heading north for blood and their Social Security checks in just over 3 days the entire east coast is gone except the tip of Maine if you're there basically no There is Escape, so just enjoy some good lobster and wait for the horde to arrive in 5 days.

Most of the Southeast has been hit and from the West Coast the virus is in the process of jumping over the Rocky Mountains at approximately 192 hours or exactly 7 days. 50% of the US is completely wiped out, yes it moves that fast, don't get me wrong, it's definitely faster than literally any disease in recorded history, but at 7 days there are still plenty of zombie-free places and from here on out. the disease starts to lose strength according to our model, there would actually be large sections where you could be safe for much longer than 7 days. Sure it has decimated populated cities and their surrounding areas, but reaching more rural parts of the country is going to take much longer, in fact, according to our model, it would take around 1000 hours to cover the entire country. 1000 hours translates to 41 days, more than 1 month of preparation time, not bad at all, but now that we know how much time we have to prepare.

What do we do with it? 7 Days to Die presents an interesting case because it doesn't have a winning scenario. It's about

surviving

as long as you can against the oncoming waves of zombies. It's about establishing a new sustainable life in which just one of the normal daily dangers is occasionally running with a zombie or 20. My souped-up hip starts acting up every time a zombie horde comes. It's like the weather. Oh, planning the rain for today, bring the umbrella, oh planet, for the zombie horde today. Make sure you bring the pickaxe. and shotgun, that's something that most zombie media never addresses, that if this actually happened in real life, there's a chance there wouldn't be an ending.

I mean, sure maybe in hundreds of years all the zombies in the apocalypse will go extinct and humans will start repopulating the Earth, but most of the time the best you're going to do is find a way to basically survive until something happens. normal kills you, like a heart disease or a vending machine that crushes you, you died in a normal way, a winner is you, so with that happy goal. In mind, in the time you have, it's time to travel to the part of the world most conducive to long-term post-apocalyptic survival and then start building the base of your dreams, but that leaves the big question of where are you going to go? go.

Escape from the zombie hordes and live in your self-sufficient utopia. Well, let's stop and think realistically about the resources you will need. First, major cities definitely have too many people, so you are looking for a place with low population density, that is, a low number. of people crammed into every square kilometer of that city, this map shows the different population densities around the world and you can already quickly eliminate the coastlines of most continents, including Australia, all of East Asia, most of the Middle East, India and all parts of Europe. It's no joke everywhere in Europe, all European theorists, if a zombie apocalypse is coming, you better do like the United Kingdom and Brexit, from there we must think about the rule of Three of the survivors, which states that they will be dead in 3 minutes. without air 3 hours without shelter 3 days without water and 3 weeks without food of all those who have a reliable source of fresh water is going to be one of the most important and most difficult to find since we cannot expect the zombies to be Manning. water purification plants in the midst of their busy schedules of widespread and disorderly terror, knowing that most coasts are too dense with people to be safe, we need to look more towards the lakes and rivers in the middle of countries like our possible solution that this map shows us.

The world's major freshwater reservoirs help us quickly narrow the field with the Great Lakes here in the United States and Lake Victoria in Africa really standing out as some of our top contenders. However, there is another important factor at play here: insects with our zombieism. Carried as a blood infection, insects like mosquitoes become a huge risk factor, especially once we start talking about setting up shop near standing water. Those who bite simply light a citronella candle, Dad, and according to this mosquito distribution map, you see that most of Africa and large swathes of South America have just disappeared, the northern part of the Great Lakes, although it is still a fair option as the weather in Canada worsens.

Cold enough to kill most threatening insects and this also applies to blood-sucking ticks, but that brings into play our other rule of three consideration: Is it too cold to grow food there? Because remember that this is an endless game. I have to survive indefinitely and you can't be waiting for Super Walmart to open its doors again, my friend, that $4,000 zombie survival kit from Costco, which is a completely legitimate product they sell full of dehydrated and canned food, is just meant to last you. for 4 years and if you have a family, you can bet thatwill disappear quickly if you really want to control your own destiny, you will eventually have to grow your own food, something worth mentioning and that you see in all cases more successful bases in 7 Days to Die Domestic farming looks like Farmer Rick may have had a good idea Carl.

I have to take care of the Goan berries, so at this point I have to ask you: are you sick of maps? Well, too bad, it's a matter of it's your life or death, so here's one on agricultural sustainability around the world and as you can see, there are some climates that are too cold like Russia and too hot like outback Australia, but it appears the Northern Great Lakes are still in play and heating up. enough to allow harvesting, but still cold enough at different times of the year to kill the deadly zombie insects before they pose a threat.

Plus, with its strong temperature variation between seasons, you can grow a healthy mix of fruits and vegetables like apples, cherries. and blueberries in the summer and even nutrient rich leafy greens like bok choy they even have the new super Berry the hasc cap oh yeah I looked up agricultural trends in Canada for this one. Now I know the planting seasons like a mofo in this your house. We should add something from the 90s era like hip hop Snoop Dog who likes the sharp street vibe you get so we can have a picture of me with something like deal with it Photoshopped sunglasses on top , just ask.

I can tell you about the resistance levels of the plants, and if you are looking for meat, first be careful because it could be infected, but second, go fishing in the Great Lakes, another amazing benefit of the location, so there is Ontario, Canada, the best place. in the world to escape the zombie apocalypse complete with a low population density, plenty of fresh water to drink, fish and protect your tasty meat from the zombie hordes. Temperatures low enough to kill pathogen-carrying insects, but also high enough to grow a wide variety of foods. to supply all your essential nutrients, dear Ontario, feel free to include it in your tourism brochures.

Ontario, they won't bite you, but I wasn't content to rest there. I dove even deeper to find the exact county that would work best. a zombie apocalypse and drum roll please we don't have good sound effects for this kind of thing yet whatever it is population density of norfol 14 people per square kilometer you're on your own my friend right next door of the water with some of the best farmland in Canada book your tickets now my friends start learning how to tap the trees for maple syrup and feel comfortable that you'll be there for a while, except maybe it's not ironic the simple fact that I've talked to Everything that's told in the show now negates its role as a non-brain-dead utopia, everyone will watch this video and when the ugly stuff really starts to hit the fan, a part of you might head there, even if it's like 1% in The lifespan of this video's audience could equate to over 10,000 people, all fleeing to the same Tiny Town in Canada, thus eliminating the first criterion that we start all of this with priority number one, the lack of people, well it was fun while it lasted and from the number one spot. been invaded I guess that means you'll have to head for the second best place, which is, yeah sure, I'll keep it to myself guys, no hard feelings, but hey, that's just a

theory

, a game

theory

, thanks for see if you love it. zombies and want even more, click here to go to Movie Theory, where I've covered the science behind zombie decay rates to predict the ending of The Walking Dead, which is surprisingly much closer than you think or if you just feel like hanging out. on Game Theory, then click here to watch this super old video on the channel that shows me in a desert smashing watermelons, all in an attempt to test out zombie-killing tools.

Real talk, it was all just a glorified excuse for me to try. a new camera I had bought at the time, but man, it was super fun and finally, one last thank you to 7day Days to Die for sponsoring this video without me having to say a bunch of corporate cringe. At the end of the day, I feel like I did a good job here, giving myself an excuse to prepare the world a little more to attack our undead neighbors, so that's it for today, next week, a very real and shocking exposé about an issue that could very easily affect video games and the way they relate to the internet see you then