On Sun, 2019-04-28 at 03:58 +0000, James Cook wrote: > Starting a new thread so as not to derail the business of figuring > out who will do what. > > First of all, thanks Aris for assessing our situation, and thanks > again G. for working to get things moving. > > Does anyone know how often it happens that most of the important > offices are vacant or essentially so for an extended period of time? > I wasn't thinking of this as a crisis until Aris described it as > such, but maybe that's because I was assuming this must be nothing > new.
Not often, but it's not unprecedented. Maybe once every few years? On at least one previous occasion, we gave officeholders huge and somewhat unfair advantages that they could use directly (bypassing the economy) in order to ensure that offices had value that would encourage players to do the jobs. -- ais523
