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The idea that one needs an exhaustive list of (RP) things to CF people for instead of just CFing people for being active, present, and contributing to the game/org as a whole. You can CF people for more than just rote chores and mechanical objectives.

I have realised ever since I came back to play Aetolia (early 2020), that no one ever really seems to CF for anything outside of what is earned as 'rewards' for Ylem/city involvement/what have you. When I ask about it, I get told that it's abusable because people would then CF for anything they want, which makes cityrank less meaningful, and therefore, it then becomes this ingrained notion that no one should ever use their CFs for any other reasons aside for redemption of city rewards. Further, when people reach CR6, then CFs become 'mechanically useless'.

The only mechanical benefits that cityrank comes is the ability to writelog (CR3), prefix/suffix (CR4), citizen new people (CR5) and eventually to cityfavour/citydisfavour(CR6). Aside from these and depending on your org, cityranks would probably also affect how many credits someone can purchase in the city credit sale. Get this: you don't even need to be of a certain cityrank to contest for a spot in the ruling council either. More shallowly and more commonly, I think cityrank is seen as a means to boost reputation and ego.

Since CFs are ways for people to organically recognize others for doing things for the city, and if it's general concern that people would spuriously use their CFs to rank someone up for no reason or something, I would appeal for a system which allows us to detach cityrank from cityfavours (something like the current guild rankset system?) and allow us to attach rewards to every cityfavour given.

Or...

Somehow, people can fix this notion that we should continue to gate CFs under reward redemption only. But changing minds are difficult, and god knows I've tried to encourage others to use their CFs more.