rules:regions

Regions

The whole world is divided into regions. Most regions are political. A region can have sub regions. The biggest regions are states (e.g. Germany). These are mostly divided into smaller regions, like federal states (e.g. Bavaria). The number of lower levels differs from country to country (it could be up to 7 or more sub levels).

To obtain this division tree we use OpenStreetmap data via Nominatim Services.

Each such region can generate up to two bonus badges.

  • one Ruler, for the player who has the most badge value in that region,
  • one Mapper, for the player who has visited the most quadrants in that region.

Note: The list of regions to score, i.e. generate such badges, is manually redacted based on play activity and depth in hierarchy among other criteria. A part of this decision process is visualized on these page: Region Badges Preview. Also see the corresponding part of our FAQ.

Note: There is a time delay for mapper badges. This is for a bit of data hiding and (some kind of) privacy, as a mapper badge actually indicates, you have played in that place, unlike ruler badges which might go to players who have never been in that particular region, but their badges have been dropped by other players.

Note: When a new player starts playing, their first two regions are “activated” even if there is less activity than would usually be required to award badges. This is to encourage new players and adapt the number of regions locally.

To determine to which region a quadrant belongs, Badgers actually uses OSM service Nominatim. Such a mapping can be non unique, i.e. some quadrants overlap two or more regions. To get a one to one correspondence, the region of the center of a quadrant in the sense of Nominatim is considered the region a quadrant belongs to. Ah, well, and sometimes, if it is feasible or way too bad, we manually improve Nominatim mappings in our database.

#Ruler of London Borough of Havering to #Jaxel.
19.03.2024

Player Jaxel takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of London Borough of Newham to #drii.
19.03.2024

Player drii takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Cracau to #mc1r.
19.03.2024

Player mc1r takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Neustadt an der Weinstraße to #olifant.
19.03.2024

Player olifant takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf to #Derholzspan.
19.03.2024

Player Derholzspan takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Mapper of Zörbig to #Barney.vk.
18.03.2024

Player Barney.vk takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Mapper of Göda - Hodźij to #VincentVega23.
18.03.2024

Player VincentVega23 takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Mapper of Zapfendorf to #wuffel.
18.03.2024

Player wuffel takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Voorst to #HaraldLegner.
18.03.2024

Player HaraldLegner takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Schkopau to #Ellikatz.
18.03.2024

Player Ellikatz takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Saalekreis to #olilo.
18.03.2024

Player olilo takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Rennerod to #DaanVZ.
18.03.2024

Player DaanVZ takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Verbandsgemeinde Asbach to #DaanVZ.
18.03.2024

Player DaanVZ takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Duisburg-Mitte to #wuffel.
18.03.2024

Player wuffel takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Rheinbach to #T-Rex.
18.03.2024

Player T-Rex takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Königswinter to #DaanVZ.
18.03.2024

Player DaanVZ takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Rhein-Sieg-Kreis to #DaanVZ.
18.03.2024

Player DaanVZ takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Leverkusen to #DaanVZ.
18.03.2024

Player DaanVZ takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Mülheim to #DaanVZ.
18.03.2024

Player DaanVZ takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Bad Godesberg to #Aguti.
18.03.2024

Player Aguti takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

  • Last modified: 6 years ago
  • by Frank Nestel