Oh well, writing time ...
From ardem:
1/ Can we be trusted for me to share the mdb file as a public link, so you with your password review your own status at the end of the turn. Or would I need to make screenies on each request.
From shadenight:
1) trust is never an issue. we are all players and playing aurora, therefore we are all trusted individual with a nice IQ and should be considered mature persons ... just because we can play it!
I don't know how well you can adjust an aurora installation to viewings from the public. Can each faction be assigned a password or is there only one SM password? I'm all for maturity, integrity, overview and direct access, but I'm unsure about who can keep a clear line between personal knowledge and that of their faction. And playing a game is never an assured symptom of anything.
From ardem:
2/ Also there would be job opportunity for a news reporter, as I will send them public information to broadcast. To keep some of the RP elements down.
From shadenight:
2) yup, like i had told the news reporter of the precedent game, news should be of all countries, except when a country, for rp reasons, asks the starmaster that she has inserted oppressive propaganda or closed the mouth of reporters of outside countries (like neo-italy did, not oppressively...just by limiting free movement, maybe i'll pm you all the things i had pmed to panopticon if you start starmastering)
What exactly do you mean by 'keeping some of the RP elements down'? I certainly enjoy writing the year entries for the JA and I'd rather not stop them so someone else can write official RP publications about my nation based on second-hand information. I'm not against such a reporter or more RP-ish yearly updates compared to what Panopticon's currently doing (note the tense) and I'd even go so far to answer on inquiries about specific stuff which they might include in their posts in any way they like - having multiple versions and perhaps even contradictions or revelations would add to the RP and its feel if you ask me.
Though, I'd like most or all of this information flowing to the reporter from my nation to come from me - I have no problem with even writing up multiple sources of varying detail, truth and topic - but I'd rather give those information out myself. Of course, other nations, players, factions or whatever you can think of can disclosue information they somehow aquired or made up ... Yet I'd feel incomplete without the former information sources coming from myself, too. Technically, though post and person ehavy would be having multiple reporters or at least international news stations that have varying methods or ethics on how and where they aquire their information from.
From ardem:
3/ Some realistic freeform Rping where in a given situation where there is no hard doctrine then the commander or administrator follows his natural traits until ordered otherwise. So I will not be delayed by players.
Now that's an intersting thought ... That'd make my current assignment of officers much more complicated and intersting. I'm all for it, but this'd likely result in much larger amounts of data flowing hither and yon. With a direct database access this wouldn't be much of a problem, though. On the other hand I'd write up doctrines, training procedures for vacuum navy, ground forces and and and ... Technically the potential for a lot of more detail, but it requires work (fine by me).
I don't want to go into the cloning and personality traits, as I have nothing to do with shadenight's faction, but this has potential to spaz out into a huge philosophical deabte (and my point of view would be that there are no genetical personality traits, but nevermind
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If not how many would be interested in a restart, but atleast using to a degree the same background of countries. Perhaps with a technology leap of say 10000, and a build cost of 1 or 2 ships.
Depending on the players and setup / rules this is ending up going to use I'd be easily convinced to play, but I personally wouldn't make a Japanese Alliance that time - I don't like repetition or imitation of myself. I guess you can read out of that how I view a restart (though perhaps I just do a different nation if there's a restart, hmm ...); But I'd be fine with a new or even another game should Panopticon return in due time.