Certainly the amount of data needed to create compelling storylines is minimal.
Unemployment.
Positive\Negative Growth.
Inflation number.
"General Polling"
National and for each region. That's it. I remember when the GM was responsible for a whole budget which really hurt the position as a whole. Data and statistics can be gotten by on minimals unless you have a data driven GM, and there aren't many of them out there. That's all I'm talking about.
We had more then that and we technically still would have had the "storylines" if MB and the anti-story line forces had stayed out of it.
One doesn't take away from the other. The problem here certainly has nothing to do with too much of one versus the other. Its activity in anything period.
My point is that the more detailed the data you want, the harder it's going to be to keep your stamina up to do it. Like I said, if I had the job, that's what I'd do. Those would be the numbers you got. As far as with the storylines, I know that's a job I could do, since I'm almost exclusively just writing a story on the forum now with the Americana thread. If the President interviewed me for the job, I would tell him exactly that. The numbers would come out once every week regionally and once a month nationally (barring significant storyline dealing with numbers such as unemployment, etc.) You'd get at least one new storyline a day and an undetermined number of articles on said storyline depending on importance and reaction. That's what I'd personally do with the job and whatever anyone else would do is fine, but like I said, the burnout often comes from the numbers at least it has traditionally in the past. Personally, I'd have a hell of a fun time with the stories because writing is in my background. Now, that's all the point I was making.
