Two buttons.

You could still Drop the game, it's just that you would be able to "post" into a game prior to it starting.

Currently, when you create a game and either await, or invite, other players you have no interaction with them until the game is filled.

It seems that you could have an ENTER GAME button active prior to the game being started, along with the current DROP GAME button.

This only works for "smack ...

I believe it would be a benefit to have "Player Names" appear when you invite them to join a game.
Currently, only the word "Invited" appears.

The benefits would be;

1. You could remember whom you had invited. (When it is a seven player game, you might forget who you had asked first...) :?

2 ...

Great. The next advancement will be that you will be plotting my turns for me, and taking my moves. This seems to be a sort of "WTF" improvement. An added efficiency for people who don't count, or read their maps????

Don't mind me. Just playing through.

If it's not broke...don't fix it.

One more thought crossed my mind. In order to give each player an opportunity to "campaign" in each state, give each player an equal presence in each state at the beginning of the game. Depending on where he reinforces is where he is spending his "campaign funds". Or, it might be easier (and less ...

I like the idea of the map being populated by nuetrals at the start of the game.

I thought that an "outside track" for bonuses made up of special interest groups or segments of the population could be "territories" that provide bonuses. Such as you conquer the "Hockey Moms" and "Nascar Dads" and it ...

Interested in your idea on the Hell map. But, I think Dante's cartography would be problematic if you just had rings and rings and rings going down. Just wanted to throw out some ideas for your consideration.

Dante had only one city in Hell; Dis in the Fifth circle. Milton's "Paradise Lost" had ...

Being the pink player is a little tough on the color differentiation. Other than that, looks good.