Turnthread: Tuesday

[Kloreep]

Originally posted by Jonny
Turnthreads =

I like turnchats better. In turnthreads, the people are much less involved. The president is really the only one actively involved in the playing of the game.

I say keep the turnchats for the time being. Later on, we might need the turnthreads.

So far as I know, there are no plans to replace turnchats altogether; just the intermediary turn chats where only one turn is played anyway.

But I suppose they might be the successor to turnchats when the game gets to big for chats...

[Jon Shafer]

This was an experiment. I repeat, this is not going to replace turnchats now and forevermore. It is to help ease the necassary transition to turnthreads (or some other form of a more independent process). As of now, I encourage our President to replace the Intermediary turns with Turnthreads. They are not mentioned in the Constitution, so such a change can easily be done without an amendment.

[FrostyBoy]

This could scare people away, the whole idea of this democracy game is for fun and if you remove that factor, then what is the point?

If it's not happening in real time (chat) then I find it difficult to understand what's going on, I am practically playing blind.

I don't support this idea, sorry.

But I do understand that our turns are taking far too long just to do simple things and I think we need to sort out some rules during chat, because otherwise it is just going to get worse and worse.

[Kloreep]

Originally posted by Sn00py
This could scare people away, the whole idea of this democracy game is for fun and if you remove that factor, then what is the point?

If it's not happening in real time (chat) then I find it difficult to understand what's going on, I am practically playing blind.

I don't support this idea, sorry.

But I do understand that our turns are taking far too long just to do simple things and I think we need to sort out some rules during chat, because otherwise it is just going to get worse and worse.

As Trip (and now you) pointed out, it's going to get worse as we get more cities and units. And, as Trip has pointed out, it may get to the point where we have to cancel turnchats - or, at the very least, cancel playing along, which is half the point and most of the fun of turnchats anyway.

If the demogame can't be fun without turnchats (I personally have a lot of fun just on the forum, but that's maybe that's just me) I think we should start reworking the rules now so that it stays fun till our victory (or, dare I say it... defeat).