Whatever we decide for posting, please god not "everyone posts whenever." This site doesn't seem to have TOO bad of a case of speed posters even if we did that, but I was once on a forum where it was literally a new post every five seconds. It was awful. Your posts would become irrelevant or look bad because in the time it took you to type, one or two posts would be thrown in that you hadn't seen and make you look dumb, and before you could delete or edit it, they'd post AGAIN, locking you into whatever had happened.

I lost sleep cuz they never went to bed/timezones... and I didn't want to be left behind.

So yeah, since posting has been brought up, I just wanted to say, let's not do THAT^!

I like idea #2. Rather than a totally firm post order though, just let it be for every "room," everyone in that room has to post once before the first person in the room to post can post again. That way people aren't waiting on other players who aren't even near them. Just let it be fluid and let us keep track of who is where and whatnot. I think that's kinda what you already said, but I wanted to give my take on it.

If we want a group to wait so someone else can enter their "room," we can make a post in the OOC or something and ask them to hold up for a bit. So everyone would just have to keep an eye on the OOC.