[@Master Bruce]

The way I’m looking at it is this:

We’ve got to combat interconnectivity. Even if we were in our own corners in past games, we had concurrent stuff being mentioned in other posts. Little bits of lore being referenced from other players and a lot of this came with players reading each other’s stuff. In Ultimate DC’s 2013 run you had micro-events like The Joker burning money in Robinson Park, Black Adam attacking a plaza in Star City, and stuff like that so maybe providing some GM interference would work.

Ultimately, we need to restore incentive to read and reference each other. For example, I’ll be applying for Looker once my application is done and as such she will be in Gotham which already has prolific actions with Batman and Huntress/Poison Ivy which determine effective lore. If anything happens that’d make national news, I’ll try to mention things like that. What can we do to get back where we used to be in these games as a community? I think that’s the question to ask.

Obviously, it goes without saying that the pandemic is affecting many facets of this, but we should still be able to figure out something that restores the spiritedness we had in these games. As for your questions, or I guess assertions, I would say I do not want a tabletop-esque system to adhere to nor do I think we need to reboot it when the game isn’t even in a state where it is needed. We just started this game at the beginning of Summer, after all. You cannot help that some people are having slow starts at any rate as we’ve had that issue when we don’t have a pandemic to deal with. I think you have to focus on the good—people who are active or semi-active and how to move forward.