Five player variant

StarWeb, bless its little cotton socks, has a variant in which five players
each take three positions from the start. The final victory score is the
sum of all the player's positions at the end of the game; this encourages
players to keep all the positions in play.

I was wondering... Might this work for MEPBM? Two players for FP, two for
DS and one for the neutrals. The game fee for SW takes into account the
fact that only longterm, dedicated players will sign up. Harlequin could
charge, say, ten quid per turn for all five nations, knowing that
individual nations aren't going to drop. Waddyathink?

Gavin