On the flipside, it is the same round-based format that makes it so easy to quit playing PA. You get natural points in time for quitting every 3 months. And anyone joining mid-round are pretty much in for a wasted time, and are a lot more likely to give up and quit.
And I'd be careful about using words like "drawn and kept" about a game with "a handful" of players, when it once had so much more.
That said, I get your point, by all means. But in AD2460, you don't need to let your work, studies, wife, friends and social life suffer, and you don't need to set any alarm-clocks
As for "winning", hehe, we'll see. (-: