I figured I am going to have to say this often in the coming weeks, so here it is.

No matter how much Kevin insists differently, the Senate worked. Now it wasn't perfect, but it got the job done. In fact the only Senator who didn't get his job done was Kevin but we'll get to that.

Anyways, the Senate worked because it consisted of 4 (really 3) individuals who could work together and separately for the good of Mercer.

What I mean by that is I was building embassies and forming alliances, while monkeyguts was expanding the town, and coachjack was setting up shops and the like.

We all did our part to help Mercer, but that won't work in every case.

Now I'll shift the focus of this post.

Here's why the Senate won't work anymore.

The only reason it worked before was because Monkeyguts, Coachjack, and I were all dedicated and experienced individuals (no offense Kevin). We knew our jobs and we did it, but we also worked really good together. We knew who had to do what and the worked flowed like a well oiled machine.

When Kevin resigned we could have continued as usual and replaced him with someone better, but Coachjack lost interest and I quit.

TL;DR- Don't dis the Senate, cause it worked, but don't try to replicate it, cause it will fail.