Propose a victory condition. Victory conditions lead to scams, which in turn lead to activity.

Unfortunately I don’t have any ideas myself.

Call upon the Great Null, perhaps? A race to meet him/her/it? =P

me no have smart now. hurr.

Possibly an over-reliance on wiki gamestate (which is always a bit of a brake on participation; it’s hard to see it, and not everyone can be bothered to edit it), and the fact that most Research Projects have been across-the-board “everyone gets +1 something”, which doesn’t really lend itself to strategy.

Proposals! Proposals revive a stalling dynasty.

I’m just trying to get my head around the ‘cave-speak’, whilst also working out what’s going on.

This proposal removed the cave-speak rule! You don’t have to worry about how you phrase your proposals or official posts any more.