Some challenges require days of planning, and may take several tries to be successful. Once you have attained level seven within, say, Architecture, you have mastered the discipline. Building the monument of Architecture. Once a monument gets built, the society has perfected the discipline, and the game world changes in a significant way. Players are able to go to the Great University of Leadership, and create a petition.
Petitions are proposals to change the rules of the game in some way, and are written in English.
The player who creates a petition must then gather 1000 signatures from other players. This signature gathering effort can be cooperative - it's possible to make copies of a petition, and share the work. Once 1000 signatures are gathered and turned in to the Great University of Leadership, a vote is automatically triggered. Votes last 24 hours. Our technology allows us to modify the game rules without bringing down the servers or interrupting game play.