Proposal: Regional Culture
Timed out and enacted, 7-1. Josh
Adminned at 11 May 2023 21:19:41 UTC
In the rule “Regions”, add the following paragraph:
Each Region may have a name, which is publicly tracked flavour text. Within the Ruleset, a word only refers to the name of a Region if it is explicitly stated that it refers to a Region name. A Region may not have the same name as an active City Architect, a City, or another Region. Regions without a legal name default to “UnnamedRegion”, suffixed with the lowest positive integer necessary to make that name legal.
In the rule “Architected Cities”, replace this text:
A City may not have the same name as an active City Architect or another City.
with this text:
A City may not have the same name as an active City Architect, a Region, or another City.
If the subrule “Regional Meetings” exists, add a subrule to the rule “Municipal Authority” named “Found” and give it this text:
Found is a Township action which can be done at any time by any City Architect that has a suitably high Municipal Authority level to have unlocked Township actions. When a City Architect Founds, they create a Regional Meeting which declares that they are Founding, and declaring a name for the Region that is associated with that Regional Meeting. The name declared must follow the rules for the name of a Region. If that Regional Meeting is closed as Popular, any City Architect may change the name of the Region associated with that Regional Meeting to the name declared in that Regional Meeting’s creation.
It will probably be easier to refer to a Region by its name later on, especially if City Architects wind up owning multiple Cities in different Regions. It’s also just more interesting if the members of the Region can name their Region.
Bucky:
Default region naming is indeterminate when several regions begin to exist at once, which will happen during the initial city distribution.