Looks solid from here, given that you’ve cut the only other active player off from making any Convoys or sending any Trade Bikes.

I’m evil. Fortunately, I have a plan for my Dynasty.

Hang on, that doesn’t solve the evil thing.

Shame this didn’t really capture much of the compulsory collaboration of Diplomacy, but I suppose it was going to be hard for that to work with really only two non-Emperor players putting any effort into getting ahead.

We’ve had too many dynasties coming down to two-players-plus-Emperor lately. Historically we’d usually have
at least fifteen players posting each month; last month we had only six. Maybe it’s worth stopping to think about why this is happening and what we can do to change it.

I suppose the idea of “a blog” with an RSS feed is quite outmoded now, and this might be a barrier to entry for some people. And there’s also the inertia that if the last dynasty was a quiet two-horse race, the players might not see it as a problem if the current one is.

Any thoughts on what’s wrong or what might help?

Actually, let’s have a new post about this, so that half-lurking players don’t miss it.