When I posted this game to my facebook, this was my friends' response:
And while it was a fun distraction to pal around like that, it eventually got me thinking.
I have already tried to take this game seriously and add feature to it once, but when I did, things got worse, and not better. I added features that delayed the time between being able to take action, and I left the payoff the same.
I still want to imagine taking this idea further, but it seems more difficult than I would have imagined to change a working game, and keep it as good as it once was, while I mess with things. It requires me to know what was working in the first place, so that I don't do anything to mess it up.