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(Message started by: Stotic on 03/09/03 at 06:27:19)

Title: Citizenship
Post by Stotic on 03/09/03 at 06:27:19
How about players get to hold a citizenship in a town.  This would boost town orientated quests and is just logical in general.  Houses could be available in the town your a citizen of.  One could simply become a citizen by visiting a town's Town Hall etc.  What ya think?

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by Rattlesnake on 03/09/03 at 06:29:04
Sounds interesting. We finally could call our favorite town our home.

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by DragonZero on 03/09/03 at 06:30:04
Good idea...I would be a citizen of Nightmist...all together that would promote a sense of townsmanship and could lead to town-to-town markets and a real world feel... :)

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by Rattlesnake on 03/09/03 at 06:43:46
Seems only logically since we all have a place that we usually reside.

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by Currupted on 03/09/03 at 08:18:35
Blackthorne baby here I come! I like this idea, I'd love to reside in the town that the majority of my first crits grew up in, have a nice little house where we could all live happily ever after and maybe you could share a house with a friend or loved one? and have the house password protected that only the owner of the house can change.

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by dognapot on 03/09/03 at 08:52:49
i like it. it's a good deal.

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by Norinth on 03/09/03 at 09:32:24
Great Idea! I'll have a citizensip of a town nobody else will have! (Or at least I'll try :)).

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by Og on 03/09/03 at 09:36:36
Dibz on harabec,  ;D.


roflmao

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by wonderful_nightmare on 03/09/03 at 11:07:49
ok but what's the use of it? you can say i'm a citizen of nightmist? really usefull i think jlh could better program other more usefull things first before he makes something like this :P

this is just a nice extra while the game needs a lot of other things that are more important for play'n :P

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by JLH on 03/09/03 at 15:02:06
wouldn't it just be /local?

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by Nocturnal on 03/09/03 at 18:25:10
A simple way to put this in is just simply add to your Character description, he is a citizen of whatever using data from /local (Of course clan taverns would muck this up but could be made Clan town or Nightmist)

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by Stotic on 03/09/03 at 19:02:42

on 03/09/03 at 18:25:10, Nocturnal wrote:
A simple way to put this in is just simply add to your Character description, he is a citizen of whatever using data from /local

It would have to be a separate button considering some people make their locals in clan houses and Nightmist has two taverns.

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by Bishop on 03/09/03 at 20:21:55
What's wrong with 'Citizen of <clan name>'?

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by TheBlackReverend on 03/09/03 at 20:40:49
This idea was suggested by me as a part of a massive system of government over a year ago. Pandilex said he was gonna use my system on Opal Spheres...riiiiight.

Anyway, citizenship could have many benefits. Yow could get cheaper prices on stores in that city, say 5%. Also, it would put us one-step closer to race-based cities, like an elvish city in the trees or the dwarven cities in the mines.

Also, without getting too much into the governmental aspects, this would be a great predicate for war. The idea of one city attacking another city, trying to become an imperial superpower over all of nightmist, is quite inticing to me. Also, much like an alignment system is going to be implemented for players (hopefully), this would enable measurements on cities for their alignments. Combining your citizenship with how well you match up with the alignment of the city would have a role in the markets and maybe even law enforcement.

As you can see, many ideas can come from this. Just be creative.

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by wonderful_nightmare on 03/09/03 at 21:10:45
ok here's an idea :d you could give some diff benefits depending on the citie you join. like if you join arilin you get a little more hp and when you join sarka you get a little more chance to hit or something. maybe make it that when you join a city you get a little more exp or armor.

just a thought :D

btw it should be that if you join a city you can't change it anymore so you got to deice wisely what your gonna do :D

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by Stotic on 03/09/03 at 23:29:21
I just suggested the citizenship for rp purposes.  I'm aware the government etc. have been suggested and suggesting at them at this point would be pointless.  It's just too large of an idea.  And Bishop...you can live in a city and be part of an organization (clan).

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by Deval on 03/10/03 at 00:05:00
Why the hell would you do that? How does being a citizen of a city boost your abilities? Thats just spastic. This started as a good idea, but has now fallen into downward spiral of utter stupidity.

(This isn't in response to Stotics comments)

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by Rattlesnake on 03/10/03 at 00:23:35
I agree w/Deval. Being a citizen of a town doesn't give you any special abililties unless the town happens to be located on top of a toxic waste dump site then maybe you could get superpowers.   ::)

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by Stotic on 03/10/03 at 01:45:09
My only intent was that I thought it would be "cool" if people knew what town you reside in.

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by Deval on 03/10/03 at 03:13:03
Yeh I'm down with that, but that's all it should be.

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by Stotic on 03/10/03 at 03:17:43
None of this other nonsense that has clogged my thread.

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by wonderful_nightmare on 03/10/03 at 07:43:54
lol i just thought if you make it different for each town it would just make the crits on the game a little different so to say more diversed crits :d

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by Silverwizard on 03/10/03 at 15:43:04
I am in total agreement with Stotic NICE IDEA.

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by wonderful_nightmare on 03/10/03 at 19:41:31
i thought maybe it's like countries. the swiss make great watches and the dutch make great cheese maybe you can do something like that with towns some are better in stealing some are better in whaterver. :D

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by Stotic on 03/10/03 at 23:36:00
Arilin will not be making cheese. :P

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by DragonZero on 03/11/03 at 02:51:25
I agree w/ Stotic the citizenship thing should only be a afilliation not some power giving ritual...
maybe u should make that into a food in the game...
mmm, cheese....*drool*


*not that I like cheese that much...*

Title: Re: Citizenship
Post by wonderful_nightmare on 03/11/03 at 07:43:06
as long as it's dutch cheese i agree. none of that crappy american cheese in a can thingy :P



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