ARTICLE CREATION - City Naming Convention

[Chieftess]

City Naming Convention

Points to discuss for creating this article:

These are the things that won in the polls -


-- There were no choices that won more than 50% of the votes. --

The leading vote getter was:

City names are determined by rank, then citizens (by registry date)

 

[ravensfire]

Does anyone still have the DG2 stuff on this lying around? I couldn't find it, and it would give us a great starting point.

-- Ravensfire

 

[Donovan Zoi]

I don't have any time to elaborate on it right now, but I did find this.

BTW: PMs cleared!

 

[Chieftess]

DG2 constitution

 

[ravensfire]

Thanks, CT.

CoL

CoL 

A. Citizen Rights
  1. Naming Rights
    a. City Names
       All cities founded by $COUNTRY_NAME will be named by citizens 
       using a rank-based system.  The President will maintain this 
       list in a thread.  Should a citizen fail to provide a city name,
       they will be skipped until they provide a city name.  The 
       $DOMESTIC_LEADER_TITLE will include the city name to be used in 
       the instructions to found that city.  No citizen may name more 
       than one city until all citizens have named a city.
     
       1.  Ranking Order - elected officials
           The rank order is based on the term and the Chain of 
           Command.  All officials of an earlier term have priority 
           over officials of a later term.  Within a term, the Chain of 
           Command will determine who has priority.  
       2. Ranking Order - citizens
           Once all elected officials have named cities, the Citizen 
           Regsitry will be used to name cities, using the order 
           citizens were registered.
          
    b. Province Names
      The first Governor of a province will name the province.
     
    d. Unit Names
       Units of renown and fame may be renamed by the $MILITARY_LEADER.  
       Units renamed as such are subject to a confirmation poll.
     
    e. Natural Feature Names
      All natural features within a province may be named by the 
      Governor of the province.

-- Ravensfire

 

[ravensfire]

As this is the first full-blown section that mentions them (and I think Citizen Rights is a good place to put it anyway), I give you the Confirmation Poll section

CoL 

A. Citizen Rights
  2. Confirmation Polls
    a. Confirmation polls are used in certain, specified situations 
      to challenge the decision of an elected official.  Confirmation 
      polls may be used only when explicitly allowed by law.  Any 
      citizen may  create a confirmation poll, should one not already 
      exist.  This poll must be created within 24 hours of the
      appointment, and ask the question "Do you approve of the 
      <description of decision>?", with Yes, No and Abstain option. 
      If the confirmation poll directly concerns a citizen (e.g. 
      appointment), this poll is to be private, as it is a form of an
      election.  The poll will run for 2 days. At the end of the time,
      if a majority of the citizens vote "No", the decision is 
      overturned. Any other result approves the decision.

-- Ravensfire

 

[DaveShack]

Ravensfire, thanks for re-engaging!



I'm pretty buried at work but will do what I can.

 

[ravensfire]

Fear not - wasn't planning on going away, just wasn't going to herd cats.

-- Ravensfire

 

[Black_Hole]

As this is the first full-blown section that mentions them (and I think Citizen Rights is a good place to put it anyway), I give you the Confirmation Poll section

CoL 

A. Citizen Rights
  2. Confirmation Polls
    a. Confirmation polls are used in certain, specified situations 
      to challenge the decision of an elected official.  Confirmation 
      polls may be used only when explicitly allowed by law.  Any 
      citizen may  create a confirmation poll, should one not already 
      exist.  This poll must be created within 24 hours of the
      appointment, and ask the question "Do you approve of the 
      <description of decision>?", with Yes, No and Abstain option. 
      If the confirmation poll directly concerns a citizen (e.g. 
      appointment), this poll is to be private, as it is a form of an
      election.  The poll will run for 2 days. At the end of the time,
      if a majority of the citizens vote "No", the decision is 
      overturned. Any other result approves the decision.

-- Ravensfire

you need to change "This poll must be created within 24 hours of the
appointment," to "This poll must be created within 24 hours of the
appointment or decision,"
as confirmation polls arent just restricted to appointments accoridng to your article... also is 2 days enough, or would 3 work better?

 

[ravensfire]

Black Hole - yup. The original wording was specific to appointments, but we've extended the use of confirmation polls to other areas. Missed that one, 'twil be changed.

I think 2 days is enough for polls of this nature. No real reason why, just a personal feeling.

-- Ravensfire

 

[DaveShack]

On unit names, in the early game it would be helpful to rename exploring units and settlers, so that instructions and logs won't have any ambiguous references. It would be most straightforward to just leave this up to the DP.

Past that point, I agree completely with the criteria "units of renown" but am not sure if we want the military leader to be the only person who gets to specify the names. Strange as it might sound, maybe we should have the culture leader be responsible for this, or maybe a historian, or make it part of an in-game RPG.

 

[MOTH]

I think we should name all units based on the Citizen Registry. But to keep this from being Elitist, I think we should go in the reverse order of registry. This way even the newest newbie gets a historical part in the game. Once we have exhausted the list, we would only rename a unit when someone new signs up or when an existing named unit has been destroyed or used up. In the case with re-using a name, they would go to the bottom of the stack.

I'm just thinking of new and different ways to get increased participation. Join the Demogame and you can name a unit. Get elected and you can (maybe) name a city!

I will volunteer to keep the list, but I won't be able to examine the save to determine which (or how many) units need to be renamed at any time.

 

[Chieftess]

Since discussion has died, approval polls have been posted here, and here.