(I even studied Human Resources, so I might be biased here I suppose)

That explains a LOT now :)

Governors have 3 stats: competence (how good they are at being governor - it benefits the planet), loyalty (how much they love the Emperor and how willing they are to betray him upon a rebelion/coup/etc), corruption (it affects the whole empire at a global level, the average corruption of all your officials determines the corruption level in the empire - it might affect various things like: taxes, how easily rebels could buy illegal weapons, population happines, justice).

Might be entitled its own thread? right now, I'd have a hard time circling back to this conversation based on the thread's title?

3) Fast paced while complex & epic in scale

I'm not sure about the 3rd one...

You could have fast paced game with real time implementation. And the player can choose how fast or slow the player wants the time to run.

In essence it would be like a regular turn based game, only that the turns play out in parallell for each player and the turns tick on their own. Player just changes how fast the turns tick or they can completely pause the game if desired. Without knowing the usual actions within your game, one second could be the slowest interval between turns. Paradox Studio titles have that system working quite well.

If the player is inbetween a period where nothing happens, the player can just fast forward. If stuff gets intense, the player can then reduce the speed to a comfortable speed.

Do you catch my drift here?

You could have fast paced game with real time implementation. And the player can choose how fast or slow the player wants the time to run.

Well, I like turns and do not like so much realtime I understand what you say and see your point and see some logic behind it and even agree to some degree, but... It's personal I want it turn based

Also started a dev log http://silverlemur.tumblr.com/

(geez, all these Facebooks, Twitters, Tumblrs... I do learn a lot of these fancy social stuff just for the promotion I salute those who use these by their own desire)

I guess, with YouTube channel that would be all (I'm not making any more of these )

You might want to sign up for one more: HootSuite (w/ the free account)

I've been following your design topics for awhile now, so I'm glad I'm now able to stalk you on twitter.

Some advice I wish I had when I started twittifying:

• Don't forget to use #hashtags, but don't over-use them (no more than two a tweet, IMO)
• Don't stupid-use hashtags for tags that don't make sense.
• Don't forget that Twitter isn't just game developers, so some tags are already taken by other industries. #indie is the indie music scene, not indie games (use #indiedev instead)
• When you reply to someone, or when you tweet to someone, if your tweet starts with the '@' character (or whitespace and then @), it's not broadcasted to all your followers unless the follow is following both you and one of the people you are @addressing. Instead, put the @username later in the tweet ("Hi, @silverlemur, etc... and stuff", or "That looks pretty cool, @silverlemur", so it's not the first character). Some people do ".@username" so a period comes first.
• Starting with an '@' doesn't make it private though. Just not broadcasted as widely. (Use DM's for private chat. However, the person must follow you before you can DM him. And be sure to follow him so he can DM back)
• At the same time, if you're just chatting back and forth with others, or addressing a specific user and aren't wanting to explicitly invite others into the conversation, starting with '@username' is a good way not to spam your followers' feeds.
• Try to tweet several times a day, if you have something worth saying. I have a suspicion that some followers use free online programs to auto-unfollow accounts that are absent for too many days in a row. That said, sometimes I gain alot of (legitimate) followers when I've been absent.
• Alot of twitter users are bots that follow you hoping for a follow back, and sometimes even tweet you in a robotic way.
• Some bots are useful though! Some bots retweet specific hashtags to help you reach a wider audience. #indiedev and #gamedev are some examples.
  However, there's a bot that likes to retweet my #gamedesign tagged tweets, and slap my avatar photograph across the tweet as well. That's dumb.
• Frequently regurgitating other content on the web can get you followers, but it annoys me so I'll stop following you. Occasionally tweeting or retweeting a cool link is fine and appreciated though.
• Tweeting hundreds of times in a day is also annoying (but again, tweets starting with '@' don't spam all your followers, so those are fine).
• Tweeting images that are embedded into the tweet instead of just a link is very eye-catching in a good way. (Hootsuite doesn't enable that unless you have a paid account, so just switch to twitter.com in a different tab for image-posting. It's no hassle)

Despite the limited space for tweets, I personally try to use proper punctuation and capitalization. Just like with text messages. People's personal preferences vary though.

I also second you starting a GD.net Journal.