So, basically, I thought it would be a cool idea for me to play through a strategy game while taking the strategy entirely from this forum. I have no idea how this will work in a technical sense--I'll have to come up with a system for distinguishing between contradictory proposals, etc.--but it seems like it'll be pretty fun nonetheless.
It's also totally doomed to crash and burn and probably only last five turns before the Sep7Civ collapses and everybody is slaughtered under our tyrannical boot.
So this is like the initial options poll to determine, in the first place, which game to use. A further poll will be used to decide which nation/faction to play as.
If anybody also knows some awesome strategy game they'd rather have used then vote other and recommend it; if I like the look of it, I'll pick it up.