I'm still working on the details.
But the rough outline is that each player should maintain their system list with details provided by myself as SM from the master list, keep track of their total income, MC reserves, number of shipyard slots per system, total number of Science Academies and R&D Centers and the status of the projects therein, and a set of Standard Operating Procedures for their fleets and systems.
They should also keep track of all of their ship designs, both the design data sheets themselves as well as number of ships of that design and whether or not it is obsolete, being upgraded, etc. Likewise they will need to keep track of their fleet formations, with said fleets locations, standing orders, and any mission orders that they are engaged in.
There will be a thread created for each player race in which their turns and the results thereof will be posted. Players are asked to not read threads for other races although I will admit that I have no way of enforcement beyond trusting in fair play and integrity.
Each turn the players will submit their actions for the turn, IE where they are moving their fleets, what systems they are attempting to survey, any construction activity, etc. This should include a running total of their MC reserves. Players can also submit to me espionage actions privately that will be budgeted under an 'other' category.
In return, each player will receive from myself each turn an Empire Activity Report, giving the results of any particular actions that complete that turn, any Non-Player Race activities that the player is aware of, and any random events that will take effect the next turn that the player needs to handle or be aware of. I will also privately inform the players of the results of any espionage actions that they took.
Diplomacy threads will be able to be opened by any player once two empires have met, player diplomacy is purely player driven with no rules or requirements for how you go about it.
If there is any combat in a round, the players involved will receive combat summary reports in their Empire threads detailing the results of the engagement and anything of particular note.
There will be a set of Empire Stories threads that the players can make story posts in that would be open to all and sundry and can be updated at any time and in any manner by the player in question.
And finally there will be the Galactic News Network thread, in which 'witty' robots that no player is able to locate somehow spread random factoids, rumors, and news about the state of affairs in the galaxy despite any attempts at silencing them.
Oh, let me not forget an OOC thread for players to shoot the breeze with each other. At some point I might open a Discord channel for the game as well if there is interest.
