I think 1 quarter per week is too fast. Not all of us are online all the day or can spend that much time on the issue - and time you´ll need if you really check what your neighbors are building and what is necessary to counter it.
Quite early during our negotiations we thought about 1 quarter every 2 weeks and I still think this is the best way to handle things, at least at the beginning. If we got used to the progress and everythings fine we can try to speed up things a little bit.
So this is my proposal:
- 1 quarter every 2 weeks
- the moderator sets the deadline for each quarterly reports (Wes, you could start a new thread in the message board and just post something like "Reports for 2. quarter until 18.06." or so.)
- if someone misses a deadline without letting us know he will not have the time to post things (holidays or whatever) his factories and stuff continues with what they did the quarter before, ships already under construction continue but no new ships are laid down etc.
So what do you guys think? :o)