Basically;
The user who wants to do this starts a new sins game, and takes a picture at the start.
He posts the picture here, and asks the community what he should do
A: Spend money on frigates
B: Spend money on capital Ship + frigates
C: Spend money on research stations
D: Build mass scouts

The community votes, and after X days, he tallies them up and does what the highest vote was.
After he's gotten alittle further in the game, he repeats the same thing. Attaching a picture and maybe asking this
A: Try to colonize the planet to your left
B: Try to colonize the planet to your right
C: Spend all money on pirates
D: Spend all money on more units
E: Spend all money on research

It's basically a 'turn' type thing. He keeps doing that until the thread dies, he loses interest, he loses, or he wins. If done correctly; this could be pretty popular later on.

That's sounds cool.

How about this. You get a group of people on the forums to agree to play a Round Robin style of game. Someone starts a new game, plays for thirty minutes, then saves. They take a picture of their progress then write up a summary of what they did.

Then they post the saved game and the next person in the queue plays the game for thirty minutes, stops, saves and it moves on to the next person.

The whole thing would be documented by screen shot or write up so that everyone reading the thread would get a good idea of the different styles of play.

Just a thought off the top of my head. What do you think?

Robbin's idea would need trustful people to do it, but could be pretty interesting. Both a picture and a small write-up of what they did during it would be neat.