Suggestion: Resident Driven Culture

[Lawnstub]

Describe the solution you'd like
Rather than mayor/town hard culture decision, have cultures be resident driven. Whole town cultures can be derived from the most numerous culture in a town. Even numbers can be first past the post.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Town-up cultures can make sense in a national context, but town-down would be strange as residency is fluid.

[Lawnstub]

Actually, this could simply extend to Residents as a novelty or allow residents to /cc. Configurable?

Even if it has no town bearing, I think individual residents should be able to decide a culture as well.

[willymv]

I think it would be cool to have something like this, it'd make the culture of a town more dynamic and representative of the people within the town rather than what the owner says. I'd love to see over time the dominant culture of a town change as it has an influx of players who are part of a different culture, even if it is just a label change within the town.

It would probably be a good idea to limit the creation of new cultures and make players choose from a set of pre-existing cultures, to minimize the chance of players each just creating a new culture for themselves if something like this was added.

EDIT: Thought I'd add onto this rather than submitting a new seperate feature request

[LlmDl]

Have the culture stored on a resident instead of the town is do-able.

Potential downsides would include:

• Easy for any player to change their culture to spy on other cultures' chats.
• Instead of an entire town being in on the culturechat, it would not be apparent that some residents cannot see that culturechat.

[Lawnstub]

A feature toggle would work here for town/resident driven. As for the downsides,

• Ultimately cultures are additive, so we could put some restrictions on it. I can also imagine players giving money to an alt to found a different cultured town to also spy on another culture's chat. The culture chat feature is a benefit of being a member of a culture, but there could be other features to cultures in the future (per culture town perms? o-o) to add more flavor. As right now, it's more of a sub-nation town alignment the more I think about it. Maybe that's all you're going for.

• In this case, there could be multiple cultures in a town using different culture chats. Given that scenario, some residents not seeing a culture chat of another culture would be fine and expected. There is no single town culture chat that individuals would be missing out on if it's resident driven.

[MilesBHuff]

Have the culture stored on a resident instead of the town is do-able.

Potential downsides would include:

• Easy for any player to change their culture to spy on other cultures' chats.
• Instead of an entire town being in on the culturechat, it would not be apparent that some residents cannot see that culturechat.

• This can be mitigated by adding a ratelimit or a cost to culture changes.
• This isn't an issue; culture wouldn't be tied to residency. And we already have Town chat and Nation chat.