I think that's all great ideas!
... I'll do the recruiting

*picks the easiest job*
I'll help anywhere else I can too..
Now I think that the first thing we need to do right now, is confirm who's still in. So all the newbs and not newbs who still wanna play should post and say so that way there are no misunderstandings.
Then we need to move the time along a little bit. I know it's gonna be hard without Dai but we'll have to go on without her if she's not gonna play.
But before that we need to figure out what to do with the inactive players. Should we reassign the characters (If we do I bags Yoshi pplease ^_^) or just pretend they are doing stuff or just say they left or make up something?
Then we need to have some meeting in the game where the idols are told what's going on from now on and fit in the absences and stuff in the plot. Like for ex say that some of the girls that were here earlier had to leave because of some bussiness thing but will return afterwards.
and since we type in the characters names at the start of each post anyway, I think the existing players should be able to control more than one character. Ergo if the inactive ones continue to not show up, the active ones could assume their roles, and start their post with [Yoshi] instead of [Yuko] when they're them for example.