Rating in order:
1. Current mechanics (I’ve kind of wanted to propose removing the book and board part for a while)
2. The theme (not quite sure how to implement a clear end unless it’s “First person to trigger a wake-up”)
_______________(threshold of not being a problem)
3. Board (not hard to read for me)
4. Style (readable)

It must not be engaging enough. People tend to do the easiest thing if the risks are not that high. There’s no risk to doing nothing right now. In the previous dynasty you’d essentially be kicked out of playing if you did nothing so more people participated. I’ll try and write some proposals later but I have to leave right now.

The last dynasty had the same problem because it was nearly reduced to just 3 people, so I don’t think its the best example…

I feel like its a bit faux pas to reveal this but at this point what’s really left. For me its:

1. The two emperors and their policing. There’s too much pressure for me to propose anything aside from game design interests (which I already have at the beginning) with both of you policing it all, so I’m just waiting out to have other people fail/slip instead and prey on that.

2. The rest, and they’re hardly an issue for me. I hardly care about the theme (it’s just aesthetics), the mechanics are what I wanted because I proposed them, the visuals/layout have already been fixed.

Cuddlebeam your comment indirectly reminded me of the whole frills / fool’s gold discussion, and I suddenly realised that’s what’s missing :D.
I’ve finally got an idea but I unfortunately don’t have the time to write the proposal now. I’ll do this tomorrow morning.

(But feel free to make a proposal laden with scam material ;-), who knows what might pass)

If I were to do that now it would be too obvious of course.

|The last dynasty had the same problem because it was nearly reduced to just 3 people, so I don’t think its the best example…
maybe Diabecko’s one where only 3 people ended up trying for the win condition and there were people who made posts expressly for the purpose of not going idle?
or perhaps the Tesseract dynasty where IIRC it ended with some people not having chosen an element.
|The two emperors and their policing. There’s too much pressure for me to propose anything aside from game design interests (which I already have at the beginning) with both of you policing it all, so I’m just waiting out to have other people fail/slip instead and prey on that.
I’m afraid I missed your meaning here? What do you mean specifically by “policing” and “game design interests” for a start?