Reason for loading simulations into the USIP OSP

Reasons for loading simulations into the USIP OSP

Provides places to put information (such as your objectives, audience, plan for playing it, etc.) to help make sure one has all bases covered.
The use of a standardized format like this creates kind of a common language that simulation writers can use. For the long term well-being of any simulation-writing organization, this kind of thing is important because it reduces misunderstandings, duplication of effort and reduces the slope of the "learning curve" associated with learning everybody's way of writing.
Generates a ‘review page’ of your simulation similar to what one gets if one writes it in traditional document format.
Allows people playing your simulation to act more as they would in the real world: communicating via email and chat, working on draft agreements together, etc. Now that computers and the internet have become so embedded into our work processes role plays that don't include them can be actually further from our reality that role plays that do**.
Allows the linking in of real time data available on the web (such as current articles and videos) to your simulation.
Reduces the work on instructors running the simulation, thus increasing the chances that it will get played.
Keeps the data of your simulation in a standard format (XML) that that later if one decides to move it into a computer game, that transition will be much easier.
An online list of all of the current 'tabs' that people can add to a simulation is kept here: