I think that if the requirements for Greater Orders could be made slightly higher, and it were required that Cities must have an Order that would qualify as a Greater Order (save that it lacked a headquarters) as one of the Orders applying in order to be founded, then they could serve as a mechanism to limit the proliferation of Cities.Victor Siege wrote:Sat Jan 16, 2016 12:22 amThe question is now whether or not we want to maintain any distinction between greater and lesser orders now that there are no functional differences between the two.
If I may ask another question, ought there be a limit on the number of Orders that one could be a member of, that is to say, other than a limit that Orders themselves establish (such as, if there were a Purple Order and its rules prohibited members also being members of more than two others or if the same Order were to prohibit its members from being members of the Green Order), or Cities one could be a citizen of, again, other than limits made by Cities themselves and the Orders within them? Also, ought Orders and Cities be able to impose specific prohibitions, of the kind in the example above, with the Purple Order disqualifying members of the Green Order, or only general ones, such as the example of the Purple Order prohibiting its members having more than two other memberships?
Related, though distinct, is it to be supposed that Orders may prohibit other Orders (either other Orders themselves or members of other Orders) from establishing or existing in Cities by specific (say, if the Green and Purple Orders founded a City, would they be able to prohibit the Teal Order from establishing within said City or its members from being Citizens) or general (say, if the Green and Purple Orders founded a City, would they be able to say that other Orders established would need at least three members to establish) disqualification?
EDIT: Another consideration, what is the intended fate of the extant (if relatively rarely used) Great Cities, that were (and in some cases still are) the homes of the great Houses?
