**So, I regret to inform you all that the WebDipia Simulator must come to and end. I hope ya'll had as much fun as I did, but IRL is starting to get busy again and I have other things I need to work on. For the record, your peace deal with the Separatists would have worked and you would have reunited the colony. If people have thoughts on how things went, I'd be very interested in hearing them. Thanks for playing!**

NOOOOOOOO!!!! Actually, that was a lot of fun. Thanks Abge for helping us so much!

Boo hiss

Give me more, abge. Give me more. (Seriously, let's do this again.)

Awww, that's a shame. This was amusing.

I broke it with my radicalism. Sorry.

At least you didn't propose spreading smallpox.

sadness.

So, let's evaluate. Did we enjoy the small, down to earth way of things? Or would we have preferred larger stuff with less immediate involvement?

The biggest problem on my end was adding so many things so quickly that weren't initially taken into account. This made all my spreadsheets useless pretty quickly. I'd need to come up with a more robust back-end to do this again.

Would you be willing to manage again, abge?

Yes, but not right away.

I think the amount of posting was probably more than anyone expected, and also contributed to the decline in councillor numbers due to how much of a commitment it was. Not that that was necessarily a bad thing, but it was more of one than people expected, I think.

I'd hate to think how much work the back-end was.

Yeah, we definitely need more dedicated councilors. We ended up with three regular posters, (TP, Byron, Cyrus), and a couple once in a while (HR, TMOW, mendax), and once in a blue moon (steephie). Adding in Maher was good.

Okay, KC, I see how it is.

Hey, I was pretty regular til this weekend (when I was busy playing FTF WebDip games). I think most of us kept up with all the important stuff.

It was good people dropped out, though, because 16 was way too many. 5-7 would be best, I think.

Would you have let my decapitation strike work :P

I do not think you could have got the Elders to meet with you, but the strike would have worked.

I'm willing to try and run a variation on this game but it would take a few days for me to set up a structure that would make it workable. (Random event generator, starting position, etc.). If anyone is interested, pm me.

Sorry bo, forgot about you :P

What do you have in mind Maher?

I like the idea, but I'd rather wait a while than start a new game immediately.

What this game really needs is good overview. I still think all the information should be readily available somewhere externally, including policies, proposals, votes etc.

I'm not very active because I don't have a clue what's going on.

In fact, I just found out the game has ended.

Case in point :-)

I maintained a spreadsheet and gave you guys a doc and o record notes. You probably should have used it : )

That would've helped, but if you can have a proper interface with economy page etc., that's going to make everything easier and less abstract.
For example, if we had an overview like that maintained by the GM, we probably wouldn't have accidently starved the seperatists.

Maybe we could pay steephie to operate an external site for such matters.

APRIL FOOLS HAHAHAHAHAHA

Yeah, I agree a better interface would be nice. What more would you have needed besides the scroll, though? It seems like the biggest issue was not knowing what the separatists were doing?

In retrospect, I probably should have kept all responses from advisors on the same post, like I did with tasks so people didn't miss important advice.

@bo_sox: Again, I wouldn't ask money for that, although I still consider it an option which I would consider helping out with.

@abge: Well, need might be a big word but I'd like, for example, all demographics listed somewhere and also specific demographics that are relevant to some specific subject like education, labour etc. listed under the info about said subjects.

It's technically redundant, but very helpful to quickly assess situations and, for me, it adds immersion.

I was also thinking we're probably picking more 'real' starting conditions next, making it even more tricky to manage/assess.