A Roleplay Group Signup

Hey everyone, I have come to you with another idea for our community. It is something I plan on using a lot personally. When I set this forum up for public use the idea was Roleplay and dynamic sales.. And I think I have hit and maintained that mark to varying degrees fairly well while maintaining my stance of it generally being something anyone might want to use regardless of overall playstyle.. But it has always left me wanting, much like the game itself does in terms of realism.. I have never been a farmer nor have I ever owned any machines (short of the old tractor and backhoe used for general land upkeep on the family "farm") but I have have worked with and around all manor of machines doing all kinds or odd work my whole life (I love any machine thats mobile and HUGE) and I know that the game is way off the mark and often times even what we have attempted to do here is not too much more than a stones throw in the direction of realism.

But how to fix this.. I am certainly not "revamping" the forum.. and I absolutely don't want to make any changes to the general structure of things that might put the more casual player/forum user off.. well.. its "easy".. I mean.. not really but its doable lol.. I have created a private group.. I will rename this group in the future but I just wanted to get that part setup so I can start adding my ideas to it.. things that pertain to this group will not be visible to those not in the group to avoid clutter for people who don't want to be a part of it.. I don't want this to affect the way we do things around here.. any overall changes to the forum will come in the form of tweaks, polish, new features, so on and so forth.. it wont be a vast restructure of how anything works.. and thats what this is.. simply another "feature"..

So my idea.. is a group that I suspect will be fairly small, with active (within reason of course) members who are dedicated to roleplay and realism.. We will vote on and implement everything from crops sales including contracts for goods and even an evolving market, buying/selling used equipment values, realistic operating hours.. so many things we could do towards realism..

But it would mean playing by a set of "rules".. While some of these things will have to work a certain way due to the work involved on the admin side of things as well as forum/game limitations, my intent is for us to vote on many aspects of how it all works and work as a group towards the grown and implementation of the whole things..

So that is the "general idea" of the whole thing.. Obviously I have loads of ideas and specifics already in mind but I wanted to put this out there and see if there was any interest.. Either way its going to happen as there are things I plan on using myself.. If you think you might want to be a part of it, let me know below.. we can discuss more ideas and features for it in the very near future but for the moment lets think of this as the "unofficial signup sheet" just to measure public interest mmkay? So there are a couple of things.. if you choose to have one or all of your farms involved in this you must agree to follow the "rules" we vote in as a group.. and you must participate "regularly".. like once a week or something.. just let us know you are still here and involved you know?

So, are you interested, thru the forum and roleplay, in moving in the direction of realism? Think I have lost my mind? that's ok too, just let me know what you think below!