Sunday eve:
I have input from both of you and I think the combination of a number of all the ideas that I've synthesized should be a great test. I think our ideas of encouraging social interaction / trade is achieved in :
1) the necessity to attain a wide variety of resources that take varying types and degrees of effort to attain, and
2) the trading of crystals.
The interest in minimizing gaming is built into the crystal acquisition process: only owners of a Completely Adorned Sphinx can get 12 more crystals (Completely Adorned: complete set of 20 crystals, 7 Cut Gems, 6 pieces of marble and 6 large gems)
I will post our idea onto the shpinx test now...
But I will watch this page closely to see if you find any major problems with it that I should change before voting begins.
~~~Abe