The Will of the Senate - out of character thread

[econ21]

OK, I agree a running commentary from the Senate is not very feasible. Let's assume their involvement will largely come during the Senate sessions - their traits will also only be updated then. (I'm thinking of making trading ancillaries against the rules, except by the mutual consent. I was even wondering about weighting votes by influence). I agree personally I tend like to blitz through my reign in a week (or weekend) rather than pace myself.

It's true that to make this interesting we will need around six active people. But we've got at least 3 already - me, TinCow and Tiberius. IIRC, we only start with 4 Roman faction members in RTR anyway. Perhaps we can have some "ghost" Senate members - ie who have not been assigned avatars yet. I think some weeding out of sleeping Senate members will be required - let's say miss two votes and your avatar is reassigned (if there are some active ghosts without avatars). The limit on participants will steadily grow up to 40+, but we might be able to fill that by involving some Org stalwarts (e.g. staff) who like Tiberius may not actually want to play out a reign[1]. We could advertise more widely - even in the RTR website - but right now I'd like to get a hardcore of PBM veterans interested to see if we have critical mass.

An impeachment rule is ok, but I was thinking of a more cooperative model for participant interactions. Maybe that kind of thing might come in to play if we manage to attract a large number of active participants. If it is just a handful of us, we may not want to go at each other's throats.

I am wondering if I should start a new thread - with a different title ("The Senate needs YOU" or something) - to see if we can involve more PMers. Are we happy enough to go public?

[1]EDIT: Although, I am thinking that this PBM may involve much less writing than previous ones - incumbents only need produce a manifesto and a report. So the burden of writing need not put you off playing a reign, Tiberius.