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While I can recognize the merit in the ideas - at least in CN - I think that the cardinal rule here will be impossible to achieve. "The cardinal rule of Cyber-Socialism is this: EVERYBODY HAS THEIR ROLE, AND IS EXPECTED TO PERFORM IT." That simply won't happen. This is an internet game, and players will put in what they want to put in. In a system like ours, there will inevitably be free riders who take advantage of an major alliance to get what they want to and then leave. Alliance leadership will always need to be those willing to put in the majority of the time playing the game. Alliances succeed or fail based on the activity and competence of their leadership. To create a system where the success of the alliance is based on the activity and competence of the entire alliance appears, at least at first blush, impossible. B

He's with us in spirit. B

Chris Kaos. B

I remember it too. Which is weird, because I can't remember what the ultimate conclusion was. B