[DavidG]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Anyone else think like me?

YES! That is exactly how a team game should be.

"setting up a cooperative research plan and implementing it" = DULL DULL DULL. Wasn't there a sketch about this? kind of like this:

Counsellor:
Well cooperative research is rather exciting isn't it?

Anchovy:
Exciting? No it's not. It's dull. Dull. Dull. My God it's dull, it's so desperately dull and tedious and stuffy and boring and des-per-ate-ly DULL.

Counsellor:
Well, er, yes Mr Anchovy, but you see your report here says that you are an extremely dull person. You see, our experts describe you as an appallingly dull fellow, unimaginative, timid, lacking in initiative, spineless, easily dominated, no sense of humour, tedious company and irrepressibly drab and awful. And whereas in most professions these would be considerable drawbacks, in cooperative research they are a positive boon.