Wolfpack - Development and Management

Wolfpack Empire - Development and Management

Miscellaneous

There are a number of efforts related to Empire that do not neatly fit into any particular category. Nevertheless, these items are just as important to Empire.

M1: Empire Encyclopedia.
The book of all things Empire. This resource will include entries for everything from F1 Sopwiths, to country names and people, to sector types. This is a massive project.
Assigned to: Geoff Cashman
Status: In progress, with 39 pages (one page per entry) complete as of mid-July, 2003. Feb. 27, 2004: Getting realistic. This should be done on a Wiki.
M2: Summary results of games to individual country names/players in Empire Encyclopedia
Assigned to: Nobody
Status: Not started
M3: Revive Empire Hall of Fame.
Doug Pitters used to run the Empire Hall of Fame. It was a well regarded effort, but has not been updated in 10 years. Bringing it back up to date would help foster the Empire community.
Assigned to: Nobody
Status: Not started
M4: Deity's handbook.
Chad Zabel wrote the original deity handbook. Despite intensive searching of the web, it has not been found. rec.games.empire hasn't been asked for the original. Regardless, there is an obvious need for a new one.
Assigned to: Nobody
Status: July 26, 2003: Original version of the Deity Handbook discovered on CD archive copy of the empire.idlpaper.com (a previous site for Wolfpack Empire) drive.
M7: Do a study to determine average length of games, and progression of same over time.
The study may reveal changing patterns of significance in the way games have been played over history.
Assigned to: Nobody
Status: Not started. Requires all game histories to be completed on the Wolfpack Empire website.
M8: Do a study of number of games per year.
Periodically, posters on rec.games.empire say there aren't as many games per year as there used to be. This may not be entirely correct. Conducting this study would determine the veracity of the claims and help to show health or lack of health of Empire over time.
Assigned to: Nobody
Status: Not started. Requires all game histories to be completed on the Wolfpack Empire website.
M9: Empire Humor.
Not a very high priority. There have been a number of posters to rec.games.empire over the years that have enjoyed seeing the game reports, in part because of the humor contained within them. By creating a humor section, we help foster the community some.
Assigned to: Nobody
Status: Not started
M10: Catalog of Empire Country Names.
Every now and then, a player chooses a name that has been used in the past. If the past user of the name finds out, it tends to ruffle feathers. By creating this resource, we would help to eliminate such events. The catalog should contain number of games in which the country name was used, and the time period in which it has been used. Completion of the game catalog is dependent on completion of games histories on the Wolfpack Empire website.
Assigned to: Nobody
Status: Not started
M5: Get Empire News active again. (done)
Assigned to: Markus Armbruster
Status: Launched and underway
M6: Get Empire FAQ active again. (done)
Assigned to: Ulrich Hannemann
Status: Launched and underway