User blog comment:CrimsonAssassin/What Next: The Future of the PM Franchise/@comment-24285234-20150830020133/@comment-7700555-20150901133626

There's not much you can do to stop people from making secret plans OOC (and the more time before the game the worse that is), but as long as the mods/superpowers don't have the tools to make everything go their way it should be controllable. One thing we can do is monitor alliances and make sure all of Western Europe isn't in a sort of colonizing cabal. One thing PM3 severely lacked was a Balance of Power, which is supposed to be vastly important to European history. Things like the Grand Coalition were basically an implausible mess thrown at an even more implausible nation as a last ditch effort to radically balance the scales. Preferably this new game won't get to that point if the mods are vigilant (and not the perpetrators for that matter).