Along with our new rules Moderation are proposing the centralisation of Culture within the game. This would involve all nations who are enrolled in the Cultural Register/Global Roleplay index (we are still to decide how to implement this), would have their base culture determined for them by Moderation and the RP team.
At the moment we have come up with a proposed "cultural map" of Terra that would serve as the base from which the cultures of each nation would be determined. We want to hear your feedback on this issue and we can work to create something everyone is relatively happy with.
To be clear: this is not final, we are open to change and we will not be implementing this anytime soon. The consultation is running until the 3rd of April so there is plenty of time for change.
For the sake of transparency I feel I should let you know that the map was drawn up by the User jamescfm. He is a former mod, former RP team member and currently is a wiki admin. I initially began working on the rules with him whilst he was still a mod and we discussed this proposal however never finalised anything until after he had stepped down. After we decided to try this idea we approached him for some feedback. Following this we asked james to draw up a cultural map of terra with the help of a few other players and we would review it now and again and suggest changes, aswell as specifics for each nation. We asked james to do this as he has a tremendous amount of experience creating maps and always manages to produce accurate and aesthetically pleasing maps, aswell as this he is very experienced and knowledgeable with culture and as he was familiar with the proposal we felt it was a good idea to ask for his help. Im sure those of you who know james will understand why we asked him Can we please not bring james into this, this is moderations prerogative and our proposal so it is not his fault if its not popular.
Obviously there have already been a few threads dedicated to this and some controversy surrounding the issue and we apologise for that. We have however taken feedback from those threads and made a few changes to the map we released earlier today. Hopefully this will act as a fresh start.
Now because of the controversy this morning there are gonna be a few rules on this thread to ensure everything remains reasonably civil:
1- If you have an issue with your nation or another nations proposed culture please leave a post on this thread explaining your point of view. Polites or myself will send you a private message discussing it further, we will comment on the thread "messaged" to let others know the dialogue has been continued and then will post the result of our conversation on the thread once we are finished.
2- If you see another player in your nation starting a conversation about the nations culture which you would like to be involved in please simply quote the player and request to be added to the conversation, we will happily accommodate you.
3- Only Moderation should be responding to players issues. A large problem from this morning was third parties piling on and confusing things even more.
4- Only the cultural map and the idea of centralising culture should be discussed here, general comments on the rule redraft should go on this thread: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7767
Thanks guys and sorry for the extra rules we will maybe get rid of some of them as the consultation moves forward.
EDIT: The Base Culture Documents, which once properly vetted and updated, will be binding (provided this rule is implemented), are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16s0 ... Ikg1s/edit
Lots of love,
Fin
xoxoxo