What was contribution points?
As the name implied, it was the contribution of the players to the reconstruction work.
It was like…
Cutting down a tree as thick as a person's thigh =1-2 contribution points, building a village =20-40 contribution points (based on the completion rate, split equally among the players in the party), completing every 5 daily missions required by the refugees =1-3 contribution points, and so on and so forth…
There was a scientific paper that studied why people did the same thing in the game and in reality, but the motivation between the two was so different.
The answer was the feedback mechanism.
In the game, everything the players did could be reflected in real numbers and reflected in a timely manner, allowing people to see their hard work. However, this was not possible in reality. Often, the feedback was very slow, or there was no feedback at all.
