It's actually that I/the thread am waking up from a deathless slumber.
Although at this point I have come to the conclusion that I fundamentally need to rip out the systems in play, and thus I am currently mulling options. Part of the delay is that I have been reading through other long running quests like Panopticon and To Bold Go to see how they do things. There are likely to be some radical shake-ups, quite possibly to the point of making a sequel thread.
Or, more appropriately, the system for this quest has become too complicated to manage and all the plates being spun are no longer possible, so an external disruption has overwhelmed the ability of central administration to keep it all going, leading to a collapse and reformation
I think it represents the Ymarin In-universe belief that they (as a civilization) are better then everyone else and have nothing to learn from other(civilizations)s. Going against commonly held beliefs is harder then going with the flow.
No? But that's why it had so much weight behind it.
And that's why we voted for recipe review. Maybe it'll be gunpowder, maybe something else.
Or getting iron centuries before it's due
Because you measure badness on your opinion, for one. Maybe someone wants a more realistic response, or wants to roleplay elitarian society, for them such option would not be bad.
I think someone already did that.
