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 Markaryds kommun to #TXL1.
11.12.2023

Player TXL1 takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Ljungby kommun to #TXL1.
11.12.2023

Player TXL1 takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of City of Westminster to #Moggus.
11.12.2023

Player Moggus takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Sankt Lorenz Nord to #Phii.
11.12.2023

Player Phii takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Altstadt to #VincentVega23.
11.12.2023

Player VincentVega23 takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Leverkusen to #Ilexa.
11.12.2023

Player Ilexa takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Landkreis Harburg to #Kleiner.
11.12.2023

Player Kleiner takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Altona to #HaraldLegner.
11.12.2023

Player HaraldLegner takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Tempelhof to #Derholzspan.
11.12.2023

Player Derholzspan takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Schöneberg to #Derholzspan.
11.12.2023

Player Derholzspan takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Tempelhof-Schöneberg to #Megachip.
11.12.2023

Player Megachip takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf to #Derholzspan.
11.12.2023

Player Derholzspan takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Mapper of gmina Świebodzin to #toadie3k.
11.12.2023

Player toadie3k takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Mapper of gmina Łagów to #toadie3k.
11.12.2023

Player toadie3k takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Mapper of Poland to #toadie3k.
11.12.2023

Player toadie3k takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Mapper of Tempelhof-Schöneberg to #MegaAnt.
11.12.2023

Player MegaAnt takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Mapper of Ketsch to #XLV1.
11.12.2023

Player XLV1 takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Ruler of powiat zielonogórski to #SzyMarek.
10.12.2023

Player SzyMarek takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Kungsholmens stadsdelsområde to #WalterBlue.
10.12.2023

Player WalterBlue takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Baarn to #DaanVZ.
10.12.2023

Player DaanVZ takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

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  • by Frank Nestel