Crowdsourcing hometowns (Patreon)
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I've just tweaked the "hometown" code, and we can now accept requests for which hometowns you'd like to see included. Post them here or PM them to me on Discord.
Rules: they must be in the USA, England, Canada, Australia or New Zealand. An immigrant Lifepath option is something we would like to include in the future, but we can't support that yet.
Ideally, please submit them in the following format:
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City: the hometown's name, e.g. "Manhattan"
State: the area, e.g. "NY"
Type: "urban", "suburban" or "rural"
Hospital: the name of a hospital where local people are born, e.g. "Mount Sinai Hospital"
Hospital location: the location of the hospital, e.g. "New York"
Social classes available: "elite, upper middle class, middle class, working class, working poor" delete any that shouldn't be available in this location (i.e. elite families don't live in Bumfuck, Idaho)
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Optionally, you can also write a short "growing up" vignette for each of the social classes. Here's the one for Manhattan:
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Elite: You grow up in SoHo, a hip New York neighbourhood known for designer boutiques, fancy chain stores and high-end art galleries. Your childhood home is a multi-million dollar split level condo with massive rooms and hardwood floors that you ride your trike around on for hours.
You take regular holidays both overseas and upstate, where you love to ride horses through the beautiful countryside.
Upper middle class: You grow up in Hell's Kitchen, a bohemian New York neighbourhood that borders Broadway and has long been the home of actors and arts organisations. It's known for international restaurants and is a hub of gay culture.
Your childhood home is a big apartment in a brownstone overlooking the Hudson River.
Middle class: You grow up in Alphabet City, a laid-back New York residential neighbourhood with trendy restaurants and bars. Your childhood home is an apartment on East 7th Street near Tompkins Square Park, where students, artists and young families sunbathe and walk their dogs.
Working class: You grow up in the Lower East Side, where gritty alleys and tenement-style buildings mix with upscale apartments and chic boutiques. Your childhood home is a rented tenement one floor above a pawn shop.
Working poor: You grow up in East Harlem, a mostly Hispanic and black New York neighbourhood also known as El Barrio. Your childhood home is a Section 8 tenement on one of the projects: when cops come here, they come in groups.
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(If you don't include these, the game will generate a generic snippet instead, so these are optional. The game can support multiple snippets for each social class in each location.)