we started to get into the habit of having event comms, it may be beneficial to bring it back for BIG events/virus-like ones-- like had the harry potter one been one or the shadow plot been one, too. it'll ease it off the main community giving people who aren't involved an opportunity to continue playing as usual and kind of makes it more like a novelty imo. ): dddinos and dddysentery are always fun to go back and read too sobs.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

as for schedulding conflicts, i think with the opt-in feature, people will manage what they want to do just fine if you keep polling too. i remember for a while i used to pre-poll before putting up these posts if people wanted two viruses, an event and a virus, etc etc which gave people the opportunity to pick how heavy the month was, really. or maybe i'm making that up BUT IT'D BE A GOOD IDEA EITHER WAY I THINK