With Particracy close to entering the next year and the next Cultural Era, a decision has been made to disband the Global Role-Play Team. This should not be seen as a negative reflection on its members, but it was becoming increasingly clear there were some long-running, structural problems which meant the project was not working as well as anticipated. We are hoping to re-introduce a RP Team in the New Year, this time with some better organisation in place.
It has also been decided to drop the Role-Play Accord, the reason being it has not developed as was hoped, and it was becoming clear it was fundamentally limited anyway, because to a very large extent it could only be enforced upon players/nations who would abide by it.
The good news is we will be maintaining a voluntary system of guidance on economic and military role-play, based around economic and military power rankings. For the time being, Particracy Moderation will be taking the lead in this process, although this will not necessarily be permanently the case.
We know a number of you have been eagerly awaiting an update to the economic and military rankings originally introduced by the RP Team nearly a year ago. Do not worry, you are not going to be disappointed. There is going to be an update, and we will be opening a full player consultation as soon as Reddy & I have had time to prepare a draft document for your consideration.