Topic: Random city question (Read 52428 times)

gman314 · « **Reply #25 on:** January 29, 2013, 11:39:25 am »

Wow. I'm surprised at how divisive this question was. I just thought that I was the only one who didn't know what everyone was talking about.

hsiale · « **Reply #26 on:** January 29, 2013, 11:41:24 am »

I'm not a coder, but as a mathematician I know that you should start counting from 0

HiveMindEmulator · « **Reply #27 on:** January 29, 2013, 11:44:14 am »

I say "city" / "activated city" / "level 2 city". It's like tall/grande/venti

GendoIkari · « **Reply #28 on:** January 29, 2013, 12:11:42 pm »

sudgy · « **Reply #29 on:** January 29, 2013, 12:34:31 pm »

I'm a programmer, and I voted 1/2/3.

GendoIkari · « **Reply #30 on:** January 29, 2013, 01:00:17 pm »

Quote from: sudgy on January 29, 2013, 12:34:31 pm

I'm a programmer, and I voted 1/2/3.

Me too.

elahrairah13 · « **Reply #31 on:** January 29, 2013, 01:41:49 pm »

"city"
"partially activated city" (or "half activated city")
"fully activated city"

pacovf · « **Reply #32 on:** January 29, 2013, 02:14:18 pm »

I've rarely read posts in this forum talking about cities giving extra coin and buy (I guess it is assumed to be a pretty rare occurrence?), only about cities working as a super-lab, and the most common level associated with city in this forum is 2 : "level 2 city". So I'd say that the unspoken consensus is 1/2/3.

Logically, it should be 0/1/2, since that matches the number of empty piles, but for people with RPG culture but no programming culture, level 0 sounds awkward... My two cents.

I voted 1/2/3, because I believe that's what people believe around here. I'd rather refer to it as 0/1/2 though.

SirPeebles · « **Reply #33 on:** January 29, 2013, 02:56:43 pm »

I'm a mathematician, and I voted for 1/2/3

But then, I'm an algebraist, so there isn't always an ordering on my numbers, and so counting doesn't always make sense, per se.

popsofctown · « **Reply #34 on:** January 29, 2013, 03:02:00 pm »

To avoid confusion I call them "activated cities", "fullly activated cities", and "expensive Villages"

cluckyb · « **Reply #35 on:** January 29, 2013, 03:02:58 pm »

I mean, the card just refers to "one empty supply pile" and "two or more". So it makes sense that "level 2" refers to the "two or more" supply piles. It has nothing to do counting from zero, just the phrasing of the card.

HiveMindEmulator · « **Reply #36 on:** January 29, 2013, 03:40:45 pm »

I think I'm going to start using the Sim City verbiage of city / metropolis / megalopolis.

ftl · « **Reply #37 on:** January 29, 2013, 03:44:08 pm »

I've never thought about it, but it's always been pretty clear from context which city level is meant.

SirPeebles · « **Reply #38 on:** January 29, 2013, 03:44:51 pm »

These least confusing would be to go by real world scale, and call them Hamlet/Village/City

ftl · « **Reply #39 on:** January 29, 2013, 04:20:48 pm »

That would be horribly confusing! When an L1 city gives +1 card +2 actions, it would be super-confusing calling an L2 city a "village" when it gives +2 cards, and then using "City" for L3 when really "City" could mean any of the three levels...

No, it's better to continue using context. Also, it was only in typing this post I realized that L1/L2/L3 was how I naturally think of it .

HiveMindEmulator · « **Reply #40 on:** January 29, 2013, 04:23:42 pm »

Quote from: ftl on January 29, 2013, 04:20:48 pm

That would be horribly confusing! When an L1 city gives +1 card +2 actions, it would be super-confusing calling an L2 city a "village" when it gives +2 cards, and then using "City" for L3 when really "City" could mean any of the three levels...

No, it's better to continue using context. Also, it was only in typing this post I realized that L1/L2/L3 was how I naturally think of it .

WanderingWinder · « **Reply #41 on:** January 29, 2013, 09:27:48 pm »

I think Activated and Doubly (or "Fully") Activated generally works. Or probably I'll just call them cities and refer to either when the piles empty, threat of emptying, etc.

Tables · « **Reply #42 on:** January 29, 2013, 10:36:47 pm »

To me, Level 1/2/3 feels the most natural and intuitive. Like, you have something which has three levels of power, it's natural to call it's lowest one 1 and the highest 3. It also feels wrong to power something up to level 1, and similarly starting at level 0, that's not really a thing.

Although I do think in general, I would refer to them by number of piles. But in my WIP article I did reference 'level 3 cities' before removing it (not removed because of this, removed because it wasn't needed). I was going to change it to '2 empty pile cities' or similar.

NoMoreFun · « **Reply #43 on:** January 29, 2013, 10:41:17 pm »

City
Activated City
Full Power City

SirPeebles · « **Reply #44 on:** January 29, 2013, 10:50:41 pm »

Activated City is just too ambiguous. Several people have recommended it now, but that sounds like it could easily be a City after 2 piles empty.

serakfalcon · « **Reply #45 on:** January 29, 2013, 10:55:38 pm »

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Several people have recommended it now, but that sounds like it could easily be a City after 2 piles empty

I usually refer to it as City with 1 pile empty/ City with 2 piles empty. I didn't realize people even referred to them as power levels.

Morgrim7 · « **Reply #46 on:** January 30, 2013, 02:31:33 am »

I voted for 1/2/3 and then immeduately realized I prefer it 0/1/2. :[

michaeljb · « **Reply #47 on:** January 30, 2013, 02:42:32 am »

Expensive Village
Lab-Village
Market-Lab-Village

Davio · « **Reply #48 on:** January 30, 2013, 02:54:14 am »

City
Shanty City
Grand City

eHalcyon · « **Reply #49 on:** January 30, 2013, 03:04:57 am »

I originally preferred 0/1/2, but most people seemed to use 1/2/3 in context. So now I assume 1/2/3 when people reference City levels. I don't mind much either way, though I wish it was more consistent than it apparently is.

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