I like it, although I’d still be inclined to shift away from daily.

Likewise, although it depends how Cities end up being being created. I’m keeping amendments minimally incremental for the metadynasty, for now.

I’m not convinced that this is the way to reduce the daily grind, if that’s the concern. I also get the minimal incremental change, though.

To chart a path towards where we want to be, what do you think about borrowing from Habanero’s Blizzard dynasty? Any City Architect is able to update all cities’ Population, but when they do, they calculate how many real-time days have passed (recalling that in his dynasty, you calculated how many real-time hours passed to determine how much to decrease a player’s Temperature).

So, if no one updates for a few days, it’s still ok because when they do, they’ll catch up the values. I suppose what will likely happen is that the most active players will still update more often than that just to have the latest values in order to perform some other dynastic action, so maybe it doesn’t matter.

Yes, I’m assuming that a daily communal would fire every day. And that if it doesn’t, everybody loses out that day.

How and when we get to build Cities is going to be the tougher question.

I’m fine just skipping growth progress if nobody updates it that day. With this many players, it’s kind of collectively on our heads if nobody bothers.