City Musings: Name, etc.

[sythyry]

I really, really want to get back home. And, say, put Grinwipey in a garret or sweatshop somewhere that he stops beating up all the cute Orren my friends.

And, of course, get started on the city.

[Poll #1748937]

Comments

[stormydragon.livejournal.com]

Would you live there, if you were prime?

I don't like the assumption I would want to be prime!

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I'm horrible with names!

[archadia.livejournal.com]

I would like to live there, even if I was not a prime, which I don't think I am!

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

I voted low on the vices part because I think many who might come to your city to live there might prefer a refuge from being gawked at or disapproved, and they might not appreciate the implication tourists might have that they are 'easy' because they are traff. While you can certainly build a recreational tourism industry, you might want to make sure your citizens feel safe, first and foremost!

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

I feel that one should encourage the types of vices that you want to see inside your city borders, and then back off and let things take a natural course. Otherwise, how would people know it's okay to do such things?

[xolo.livejournal.com]

I wanna change my vote to Wrongopolis!

[terrana.livejournal.com]

I think as far as name and philosophy go, regardless of what is suggested here, you should come up with a clear and definite idea of which direction to go in. This ensures maximum disappointment and confusion when your clients-turned-subjects have a completely different idea, execute it, and you only find out via the outrage of neighbouring governmants.

I have pattern recognition, me.

[zeeth_kyrah]

I really think that you should start with a moderate base of such recreation, and then mildly discourage aggressive trade in it early on. That way you start easy and don't need to put a claw down quite as harshly later if it starts to get out of hand.

If you focus on that being your primary income, the other parts of the city have a chance of starving. This is where the agrarian base of the World Tree is such a helpful thing; self-sufficiency is easier if you have a field and/or a garden to help feed you.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

I offered Trans-Sylvania in semi-jest. Not only does it provide an apt description of a peripatetic city, but it also brings in an obscure cultural pun.