I’m starting to think that dynasties work better when the minimum required player involvement is “perform the basic dynastic game loop action” rather than “do nothing”. Having a modest bar encourages background players to either join the game or step out, both nudges giving us a more engaged group - and a dynasty that runs as fast as that group wants to play it. Right now it looks like we’re going to be running on everything timing out (and a game loop taking five days!), because the rules say that it’s fine for a few players to do nothing.

Clucky IX seemed to work well when we required all Wizards to submit orders each round.