[War_ooc] Activity requirement?

[John Penta]

*Clears throat* Let's not scar the teenage lurker.:)

I've already posted ads with every 2 weeks as the listed frequency -
As those expire, I can look into upping it to once a week.

There's an element of "Oh really? Prove it." in my head re claims you
all can meet once a week - and frankly, significant questions as to
whether I could get out a quality WR every week.

So far as the format of the WR goes - here are my problems:

1. I am annoyed that there is no consistent definition of the approval
numbers. Just how the heck you decide what Government Approval means,
or Popular Approval, caused rampaging arguments last time. (Here's
practically a Zen koan I had to ponder: Is Popular Approval what
people honestly think, or what they're willing to say?) And yet I do
not feel that it's something I should just decree as GM. (We'll leave
aside how they break down, too.)
2. Trying to CALCULATE inflation is what I'd be required to do. I have
no idea how to do this.
3. Figuring out effects. Oh, the unholy hell that erupts when it tries
to be decided what happens when your Popular Approval or IF is in the
20s. The player at issue will naturally argue "no effects!"; meanwhile
it all becomes faintly meaningless unless you get the effects right.

So, in short:

1. Before I require once a week, I want the playerbase as a whole to
prove it can -do- once a week. Not just some of you - for sanity's
sake, I'm keeping to one activity standard regardless of country
played - but all of you.
2. I need help drawing up a pretty-looking, useful, readable template
for the WR. Including definitions on the numbers.
3. I need help figuring out how to decide inflation for each currency in play.

John

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Iain<iain at iain-waddell.co.uk> wrote:
> Only indecent exposure? You're clearly not expecting a very good night ;)
>
> As for what we expect from the world report, I did quite like how it was....