Culture-specific Infrastructure, Organization, and/or Features Article Option
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Culture-specific Infrastructure, Organization, and/or Features Article Option
Content Addition · Custom article templates (studio) · Created by Valasania
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What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
This would be a type of article to be added to the dashboard with an associated template - at the moment, there's no area (besides a blank article) to describe the characteristic features, buildings, or geographical/architectural layouts and organization of cities or other features of a given culture, people, or organization.
To give an example, I could theoretically use the 'Settlement' Article template to create an Ancient Greek Polis and fill it with interesting features. Give it an Acropolis, an Agora, an amphitheatre, you name it. This would be describing that specific city though, and not poleis in the general sense.
There are not templates that zooms out to describe how a city of a given culture is organized, and what features are prominent and specific within them. You could theoretically use the 'Buildings' Article to, say, describe the Agora, then the Acropolis, and so on, and then link it to a general article about a given culture, but this feels prominent enough in worldbuilding that it deserves its own unique template, and may serve as a really useful tool for worldbuilders to devise templates for how their cities, forts, temples, forts, etc. are laid out in a general sense, rather than the how the current 'Buildings' article template presents it, which is better designed to describe individual, specific buildings rather than the general model.
It's the difference between describing a Roman military camp and the specific camp set by Ceasar in his Gallic campaigns during year what-have-you, essentially. One can provide context for dozens of different situations, and the other is very specifically one thing.
The questions this article template would seek to answer would be things like, 'What would you expect to see in the cities of this culture?' 'How does this culture like to plan their cities?' 'What is the design philosophy at work here in-world?' And perhaps 'How do people within this culture view these things?'
Tldr; what I'm hoping for is an article and template that can help describe the general characteristics of cities, rather than the specific features of a single city.
The Team's Response
This is very well described by the Tradition template, Architectural styles are traditions.
Current score
48/300 Votes · +4640 points
Votes Cast
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+100
by alexthewitch
on 2021-06-10 03:19 -
+50
by Kroashent
on 2021-06-10 00:18 -
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by Ithirahad
on 2021-06-06 14:57 -
+50
by ivormac
on 2021-06-05 20:00 -
+200
by justmander
on 2021-06-03 17:39 -
+50
by Raine32
on 2021-06-03 05:21 -
+100
by LiaFelis
on 2021-06-02 08:51 -
+20
by Inferus0
on 2021-06-02 02:56 -
+100
by AJWithall
on 2021-06-01 01:36 -
+300
by nymla
on 2021-06-01 01:04 -
+300
by Shadowclaimer
on 2021-05-31 19:55 -
+200
by Lahparas
on 2021-05-30 13:49 -
+300
by ГМсаша
on 2021-05-30 12:15 -
+100
by WindRider739
on 2021-05-30 07:59 -
+20
by LyreForSyren
on 2021-05-29 14:30 -
+20
by theaaronw0
on 2021-05-29 13:42 -
+10
by Jayne_Abernathy
on 2021-05-29 03:21 -
+100
by Ravos9988
on 2021-05-28 00:45 -
+100
by Mercurian
on 2021-05-26 17:42 -
+200
by LNalls
on 2021-05-26 17:19 -
+100
by A Roaring Elf
on 2021-05-26 15:48 -
+100
by Tutelie
on 2021-05-26 05:32 -
+100
by Leakimka
on 2021-05-25 14:54 -
+50
by Zora Taryn
on 2021-05-25 11:58 -
+100
by Cyborg Starfish
on 2021-05-25 08:30 -
+100
by Kellywhitebateman
on 2021-05-25 02:54 -
+20
by APartyHat
on 2021-05-25 00:29 -
+100
by sereinknight
on 2021-05-24 22:42 -
+300
by arlj11
on 2021-05-24 17:56I would like to how the Tradition template can be used in this situation.
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+100
by Zemeraire
on 2021-05-24 05:11 -
+20
by hearthless1
on 2021-05-24 04:47 -
+50
by jake.muenzen
on 2021-05-24 02:23 -
+100
by iantojohn
on 2021-05-24 02:09 -
+50
by LeonTrig
on 2021-05-24 01:16 -
+50
by historynstuff99
on 2021-05-24 00:39 -
+10
by jasoniron
on 2021-05-23 13:58 -
+300
by chrissifniotis
on 2021-05-23 13:39 -
+300
by Left_Shoe_
on 2021-05-23 06:55 -
+10
by SrSpaceCadet
on 2021-05-22 22:54 -
-50
by ka_jan
on 2021-05-22 22:20 -
+50
by MightyShim
on 2021-05-22 19:21 -
+10
by ReksUni
on 2021-05-22 18:47 -
+50
by FrozenFabler
on 2021-05-21 21:58 -
+100
by Dricka1
on 2021-05-21 19:36 -
+100
by LoneGirl88
on 2021-05-21 19:04 -
-200
by A Wild Bananafolk
on 2021-05-21 06:45This is what the Tradition template is for :)
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-100
by Vertixico
on 2021-05-21 05:18I do believe that what you are looking for is the Tradition Template. This is exactly meant for this: Traditions, RItuals, Cultural quirks, and yes the larger picture as well. It offers connections to ethnicities and nations. The article templates are kept vague and generic on purpose to give you room for your own creativity. If you see yourself doing this subtype of tradition a lot, higher ranks are able to create their own custome "sub-template". But my general belief is that this request asks for something that is already there.
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+50
by spameroo
on 2021-05-21 04:43 -
+300
by Valasania
on 2021-05-21 03:35
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