I spent some time thinking about the possibility of someone taking over the game and even considered how to make keeping track of everything easier. I came up with simply using a spreadsheet to track all the data with fields that would automatically take care of doing the math when items are traded. The post would be greatly condensed by linking to the spreadsheet instead of listing everyone's stuff for each colony. I don't know if it would work, but that's the general idea. Each colony would be on its own tab in the spreadsheet and there would be links for trades to the other tabs. So if you were to give me 4 fish, that would deduct 4 from you and add 4 to mine all automatically. Players would have read/write access to the spreadsheet to edit their own trades with the GM watching over the changes. I THINK it could be done, but I'm not sure.