Way to Name Cities

[MrWhereItsAt]

Originally posted by disorganizer

we could start with the president, then the ministers, then some other officials (department-members, publisher of news etc.). after this, we randomly select a citizen from the citizens which are in the chat at the moment of naming the city ;-)

I kinda agree with what you say here, but it's highly unfair on those of us who can't be at the turnchat - I have commitments at 8am (2000gmt)!!!

We can't restrict names to those who can be here at a certain time - it must be for those who contribute most.

[disorganizer]

thats why we first could give it to officials and citizens which did something positive for the nation (as a kind of honour).
we could vote each week for the next non-chat citizen to be allowed naming or something like that.
i believe attending the chat as something special a citizen can do for our nation. thats why i put this in.

[MrWhereItsAt]

As long as contributions are the main criteria for choosing posters after whom to name cities. Why should someone who posts 70-80 (releveant, maybe helpful) posts per week and can't attend the chat count less than someone who is in the chat for 40-oddmins and does little else?

[civman2000]

random. I'm #2 but as NYE said, that doenst make me more worthy...If you could bias you're random number generator towards active people and even more towards ministers, that would be better.

[Spiffor]

Giving the naming power to those who are in the chat is a very bad idea. However, giving the naming ability to a random person, through a randomizer is a good thing. There was a kind of inequality when people joined (hey, people online then were the first to join). A random raffle is the way to make everybody equal.

[hetairoi22]

Originally posted by jdd2007
it should be other: the ministers and presidents should get the first cities and then everyone else, in joining order.

I agree with this, but I want it combined with Apocolypse's idea: inactive players should not have cities named after them.

[Apocalypse]

Cities should even be renamed if some who has a city named after them screws up the game in some way or another. Or if there is ever a horrible president and we wish to rid ourselves of that person completely when they leave office.

[disorganizer]

so could we do a post-ranking each week? then we have a new naming order (all who already named a city are not allowed in this list).
every citizen could propose a name in advance. if they are chosen, the next city is named after their proposal.
also, for special awards, a second naming chance could be there.

[jdd2007]

someone said that we probably couldnt build enough cities for everyone. definitely not. no way were going to build 108+ cities

idea: name regions or great battles after people.

i think a post-ranking system would be too much. however, we cant be naming cities after people inactive on this forum.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Random order, though I'd be fine if it were done down the list in terms of joining order (so long as players not active within the past week are cut).

Then again, in mid-July, I'll be away for a week. So... maybe not.

[Jon Shafer]

Let me give a quick demo of what a random order might be like (and don't even try to use these as official if random wins):

Which would mean that the first people to choose would be:

TrueLight
Captain
Jonny
delsolsi
Fatwreck
-=MordeN=-
civman2000
Buster13
ThePlagueRat

Okay, so I forgot a number, I'll change it already.

[Jon Shafer]

Okay, this poll is too close to let it slide off the first page (and pretty important), so I'm bumping it back to the top again.

[Kuciwalker]

Joining order, but skip any inactive members.

[Proserpine]

I prefer joining order (and I'm waaay down the list), but as others have said inactive members should be excluded.

Also if ministers have priority - whatever the principal method - it is obvious I think that they should be excluded if their number comes up later in the normal course of running through the list.

[disorganizer]

I also propose honoured citizens to get priority in naming the next item (see "do we need a honour system" thread). If we award someone with a medal, he should also be priorized even over the ministers/president to name something.
I also second any1 who already named something is excluded from the random-process.
Nobody should be allowed to name 2 things. (Well, we still have to decide about landmarks. Are landmarks named according to naming-scheme or by someone?)