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--- superstruct-report-martin [2008-10-15 09:54] – 81.188.78.24
+++ superstruct-report-martin [2008-10-15 20:20] – 81.188.78.24
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   * Second medical hack: Nasal purifier can be made from: http://www.cpapman.com/DREAMFIT.JPG
   * Report: Botanical sanctuaries and national parks are plundered for possible cure against ReDS (a disease in 2019).
+  * introduced the term Terror Retail, black markets selling dodgy health solutions.
   * Report: The Association of European Zoo-s is organizing a quarantine of all primates against ReDS to Gibraltar.
   * Joined P2P Medical Care superstruct.
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   * A public map of urban wild food sources.
   * [[foxp2]]
+  * A Distributed Workforce Network, in emergency situations, turn your large company into many small ones.
+  * Dunbar's Number; a direct corrolation between brain size and size of social groups. We have a very direct, very hardwired limit on the number of people who we are capable of treating like people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
 == My observations ==
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   * The discussions are not turning up many brilliant new insight yet. Day 8.
   * Contact between players is slowly picking up.
-  * There is a kind of rather vulgar excitement in Superstruct, the kind that drives disaster-tourist. It's not a pretty sight. I wonder how many African former child-soldiers would be eager to play this game. As Busdriver says: Recreational Paranoia Is the Sport of Now. A superthreat, it worked for Bush and it works for Superstruct.
+  * There is a kind of rather vulgar excitement in Superstruct, the kind that drives disaster-tourism. It's not a pretty sight. I wonder how many African former child-soldiers would be eager to play this game. As Busdriver says: Recreational Paranoia Is the Sport of Now. A superthreat, it worked for Bush and it works for Superstruct.
+  * Looking at player profiles I estimate 60% of players is a small sustainable farmer in 2019.
+  * I get the impression the game is massively dominated by American and European players of a certain age-group, with few specialists like physicians, farmers, etc.  This probably makes the forecasting unreliable.
 == Game technical points ==
   * player-profiles should have been searchable so you can connect to people you need.
-  * the computervoice in the 5 introductions to the game is difficult to understand.
+  * the computervoice in the 5 introductions to the game is too difficult to understand for non-native English speakers.
   * a few too many links are not working on the site
   * any player with a 'space' in his/her name errors when sending a message.
   * early work disappears beneath more recent stuff, so ideas and discussions tend to be repeated.
   * Superstruct and Discussion titles are now editable, which helps to improve their efficiency during the evolution of the game.