Writing too much other stuff

I’ve been writing so many circulars for the game, that I haven’t gotten around to writing my blog! It’s starting to pay off, though! I’ve got two fellows who volunteered for two tasks, and a discussion going on the way forward with respect to finding active players to join our fellowship. I’ve actually started a second city, with the idea of running a ‘training camp’ – finding new players, build them up and bring them into our big fellowship, when they’re ready! Since everything in my main, big city takes a long time to upgrade or build, I do have time every day to keep building the mini-me as well. It needs more attention at first, to set up when everything is quick and fast; and now I’m recruiting, which is also time-consuming. But once it’s set up, I should be able to manage with my normal evening play-time.

I’m preparing a number of circulars, teaching about basic features, strategies and such – but once they are done, I can rotate through them with every new batch of recruits. There will be a lot of coming and going, I suppose, since I plan to ruthlessly boot anyone not playing daily. Why? Well, loads stop playing after a week or so – the map is full of ‘dead’ cities. With new players, no need to hang on, to wait and see. If you’re not hooked from the start, you’ll most likely quit anyway.

So that’s all coming together and I’m spending more time on housework, at the moment. I had let things slide a bit, but I’ve caught up already. There isn’t much more to tell at this point. I still don’t know when I’ll be moving, or where to. I still haven’t tackled that application – I really must get onto that! The cats are all doing fine, Mewthos’ chin is healing – even though he scratches it bloody every now and then. I guess no news is good news – though it doesn’t make for good copy!