Current Provinces

Donegeal · October 22, 2002, 09:58

Current Minister in Charge: DM E_T

Siberia (8 Cities, 4 in our control)
Hole in the Wall
Arcadia
Avignon
Dijon
Brundisium (Roman)
Novgorod (Russian)
Sevastopol (Russian)
Krasnoyarsk (Russian)

Ill de Rose (9 Cities, 6 in our control)
Here It Is
Macross City
Jerusalem
Port Rouge
Opiadom
*Rheims*
Athens (Greek)
Sparta (Greek)
Delphi (Greek)

Piña Colada (10 Cities, 4 in our Control)
Chiquita
Del Monte
*New York*
*San Cortez*
Argos (Greek)
Chicago (Aztec)
Boston (Aztec)
Washington (Aztec)
Cologne (German)
Hannover (German)

Mingapulco (9 Cities, 8 in our control)
Timeline
Termina
*Gotham*
Gaia
Apolyton
Tassagrad
Banana HQ
*Chartres*
Mycenae (Greek)

El Nino (6 Cities, all in our control)
Seeberg
Loveshack
Oak Ridge
Ubergorsk
Napoleton
Geofront

*Ghengol Highlands* (6 Cities, 5 in our control)
Ghengistown
*Port Of Malignance*
Willsbury
*Antioch*
*Contaginon*
Coventry (English)

*Ghengol Lowlands* (7 Cities, 5 in our control)
*Muncie*
*Bacteria*
*Susa*
*Tarsus*
*Arbela*
Oxford (English)
Hastings (English)

Uber Island (Currently 6 cities, all in our control) RA: Vacant
Another Glorious City
*Neon Uber City*
*Boomtown*
*Thebes*
*Shiberport*
*Whelsh Coast*

*Greco-Gaul Coast* (Currently 8 cities, 3 in our control)
Port of Where It's At
Heliopolis
Lhasa
Centralia (Iroquois)
Thessalonica (Greek)
Pharsalos (Greek)
Corinth (Greek)
Knossos (Greek)

*name* = City and Province names that need to be changed.

Donegeal · October 22, 2002, 09:59

I will edit this whenever there is a change.

*** Well, would you look at that! Color coded! How impressive! ***

Aro · October 22, 2002, 10:02

In the next week I'll be able to make the maps, donegeal. I'm sorry for the delay.
Btw, I like the colors...

GhengisFarb™ · October 22, 2002, 10:30

Quote:

*name* = City and Province names that need to be changed.

You missed Gotham, Port Of Malignance, Contaginon, Muncie, Bacteria, Boomtown, and Shiberport.

They don't necessarily NEED to be changed but they are eligible for renaming as they were not an official minister's city choice.

We need to find out what ministers have not ever named a city, and whether a minister gets to name a city for each office/ term of office they hold.

Of the ones eligible to be renamed Whelsh Coast is the only one that went through being proposed in a thread and receiving support from more than 3 citizens. (That was one of the conditions I was trying to set where a city name had to have at least three supporters before it cold be used)

Donegeal · October 22, 2002, 10:39

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Originally posted by GhengisFarb
You missed Gotham, Port Of Malignance, Contaginon, Muncie, Bacteria, Boomtown, and Shiberport.

Oops... I thought those were "official" names. Actually glad to hear they aren't. Thanks

BTW, does this mean that "Welsch Coast" is official? I haven't really been keeping up on the city naming threads.

Thanks again. Updated.

GhengisFarb™ · October 22, 2002, 10:58

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Originally posted by donegeal

Oops... I thought those were "official" names. Actually glad to hear they aren't. Thanks

BTW, does this mean that "Welsch Coast" is official? I haven't really been keeping up on the city naming threads.

Thanks again. Updated.

We don't have ANY official ones. The CoL has nothing about city names. GodKing started naming them and no one cared so that's where most of the names came from. I proposed that each minister be allowed to name one per term and that the minister suggestion be approved in a poll by the people but no one really cared and then I proposed that we take suggestions and any city name that had the support of three people be put up for a vote but the only suggestion that met the qualifications was Whelsh Coast.

ANYBODY can rename ALL of the cities and not be in violation of the CoL.

The only thing that got OVERWHELMING support was that NO ONE should ever name them in the turnchats. The name assigned from the Egyptian List was to stand until a Minister chose a cityname as their choice or we voted on it.

Meshelic · October 22, 2002, 17:00

What does a regional administrator do anyways, just out of curiousity?
I noticed quite a few vacancies in our empire...

Donegeal · October 22, 2002, 17:21

He does alot of work to organize the build and PW suggestions for whatever Province he is RA to then forwards those suggestions to the minister of CP, who subsequentialy ignores them and never gives a good reason to do so.

Laertes · October 22, 2002, 17:31

We currently have 40 cities building stuff like billy-o. The RAs try to pick up a bit of the load by reviewing:

build queues
workforce allocation
happiness
defence
public works

and making suggestions to the City Planner, MoPW etc. for a particular province. I do just 5 cities.

For me, this means downloading the latest save, spending about an hour looking at all the options and writing out detailed orders for each city for each turn, if necessary. Then swapping a few PMs with the above dignitaries to let them know my ideas.

Donegeal also runs a thread for his region, for idea, which is a good idea, as well as having redefined the provinces recently.

Its not a glorious role, but it is appreciated! And who knows, they might let you name a city if you do a good job!

Duddha · October 22, 2002, 19:13

If the CP wants me to govern El Nino I will, but it'll have to be more organized than last time. Last time, I just stop giving orders because I didn't know if Godking was considering them.

Meshelic · October 22, 2002, 19:39

so they are more or less "provincial governors" without the power to govern unless the CP and PW ministers agree with him on the order queing , right?

Reddawg · October 22, 2002, 19:46

meshelic, right

and its queuing, isnt that nuts?

GhengisFarb™ · October 22, 2002, 23:33

Quote:

Originally posted by donegeal
He does alot of work to organize the build and PW suggestions for whatever Province he is RA to then forwards those suggestions to the minister of CP, who subsequentialy ignores them and never gives a good reason to do so.

Aww, someone's feeling unloved.......

Hey, where's WhiteBandit?

Meshelic · October 22, 2002, 23:38

of my whole vocabulary, 'queuing' is one of the worst words I've run into as far as spelling goes.

I might like to have a go at an RA job.

E_T · October 22, 2002, 23:45

Great job, Donegeal! I really like the colors! I'll link this in soon.

I'll be posting a thread soon, to fill the RA positions that are Vacant. I want to post my Policies in the Contractors Office thread before I do, so that anyone applying knows what I expect and will require of them, both between turnchats and During them.

E_T

GhengisFarb™ · October 22, 2002, 23:49

Maybe we should leave the names alone until the NewCon goes into affect. Then we might pass a Senate Bill or something to iron down how the names will be chosen.

Meshelic · October 25, 2002, 05:42

*bump*

Donegeal · October 25, 2002, 08:50

Thanks for the bump buddy. Have you heard anything about an RA job from E_T?

ThePlagueRat · October 25, 2002, 09:30

*bompbibump*

I guess RA is a regional adm. ?
What do those people do? What are they for?

Donegeal · October 25, 2002, 09:45

Our Glorious empire is divided into Provinces (or regions or States, whatever you want to call them). A RA job is to govern one of these regions. Well not so much govern, but supervise. The RA will look closely at the cities in his province, and make suggestions to the MoCP about what he thinks should go on in those cities. He can suggest builds, "Q's", Work Force Allocations, PW issues and defensive measures. Under the current CoL, a RA really only has as much power as the CP is willing to give; meaning that all that the RA can do is make suggestions to the CP who is not required to follow them. Under the NewCon, I have made a proposition to change this and eliminate even the position of Deputy of CP under the Domestic Minister. To get a good idea of what an RA does, please visit and comment on anything you see in my Piña Colada thread.

ThePlagueRat · October 25, 2002, 13:01

Sounds good donegal...
So the decentralization might really work?!

I hope not the RA will grow to much local power as to
overule the senate's specific decisions in certain areas,
since they represent all countymen's votes.

If the senate decide by votation to build up culture in
a certain region, what happens then?

Donegeal · October 25, 2002, 15:34

In the way I described the functioning of RA's and the DM in the NewCon, a vote to build culture in a certian area by the Senate, would make the DM (or a proactive RA) order the RA to build blah amount of culture in blah number of turns. If the RA of that region failed to comply with the wishes of the Senate, then it would be the DM job to impose some type of punishment to that RA. ie: limiting his powers by taking away PW rights or the DM taking over the "Q". All the way up to removing the RA from office. After all, RA's serve under the DM.

Meshelic · October 25, 2002, 17:34

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Originally posted by donegeal
Thanks for the bump buddy. Have you heard anything about an RA job from E_T?

No nothing from E_T, although I haven't asked him. Fergus recently pm'd me and explained a few matters, and thus I am very interested in 'governing' a region at this juncture....

how is it decided who gets what province? volunteering?

Donegeal · October 25, 2002, 17:42

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Originally posted by Meshelic
how is it decided who gets what province? volunteering?

Yep. Just tell him you would like such and such a province and he will most likely grant it to you (although I cannot speak for him

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Meshelic · October 25, 2002, 18:37

Since Tassagrad is the Shadow Service's base of operations I would be willing to volunteer for RA of Mingapulco if it is still vacant...

Meshelic · October 28, 2002, 01:24

Changed my mind on the Mingapulco region RA'ship...

I'd like to volunteer for an RA job somewhere in the Persian Highlands or Persian Lowlands if possible.. .

Laertes · October 28, 2002, 06:26

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Originally posted by Meshelic

Fergus recently pm'd me and explained a few matters, and thus I am very interested in 'governing' a region at this juncture....

how is it decided who gets what province? volunteering?

Sorry I did not get back to you sooner, I was moving house this weekend.

I think you're choice looks like a good one - interesting stuff happening in the region, but not too much of a production centre to be controlled by military or wonder requirements, so you get to have some say in what gets built, plus culture issues etc.

Meshelic · October 28, 2002, 06:53

I was thinking about going for Mingapulco because it's the production center of the empire and a powerhouse compared to the rest......but then I figured that until I'm more experienced with city planning (in regards to the way this game operates) then I should try for an area that is probably not sought after right now, an area that can use some work but won't cause too much problems. SO I think the Persian Highland (or) Lowlands is best for me.

After all, I can always relocate the Shadow Service HQ.

ThePlagueRat · October 28, 2002, 11:33

Well Meshelic...

I dunno about experience, and the importance of that.
Perhaps you could have RA-ship of the Mingapulco region, anyway?

If we have a RA in such a "production unit", that RA should
act accordingly to the democratic decisions and
administer the region according to plans made by the
government and accepted by the senate. In a demogame
that seems the most righteous option...

The amount of power a RA should have, should be no bigger
than the amount of power the central administration got.
It seems impossible to have local elections for
the people in a particular region. (since we are all here)

An RA is appointed by government right?
So he is not a people's representative and his decisions should
be in a place underneath the senate's authority. Ok?

Meshelic · October 29, 2002, 23:05

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Originally posted by ThePlagueRat
Well Meshelic...

I dunno about experience, and the importance of that.
Perhaps you could have RA-ship of the Mingapulco region, anyway?

If we have a RA in such a "production unit", that RA should
act accordingly to the democratic decisions and
administer the region according to plans made by the
government and accepted by the senate. In a demogame
that seems the most righteous option...

The amount of power a RA should have, should be no bigger
than the amount of power the central administration got.
It seems impossible to have local elections for
the people in a particular region. (since we are all here)

An RA is appointed by government right?
So he is not a people's representative and his decisions should
be in a place underneath the senate's authority. Ok?

Oh I understand. I don't want Mingapulco now anyways, it would not be in my best interests, since I couldn't foresee Unorthodox leaving and myself and adaMada taking the helm of the Jungle gazette...
I'd still be interested in a RA job in Persia Minor or Major however, though I understand this is an appointed position (which really holds no power other than 'suggestion')....

Meshelic