Add a chalk outline around city borders

Add a chalk outline around city borders
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Proposal
Those framiliar with 'legends' and their great city management system, know on the city terminal you can toggle 'show city border' this places a chalk like vvvvisual border on the ground showing the actual city border.
Justification
By having a visual, none distracting but seen border, this can help in knowing the border and not guessing where it is. Where city buff can be attained, where harvs and structures can be placed, storyteller walls and deco can be added.
Motivation
Adding the visual border helps all wirhin the city and those who may potentially wanna join a city knowing what area it encompasses.
Where is a cities actual borders?
 

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Also to Ornj's comments/questions: I think adding in an option to the player options would be best, as they could turn it on/off.

Would it also be possible to add a customization option on the player's end? Thinking of being able to shade the chalk different colors to match the city's surrounding environment (i.e. - make it a certain shade of tan on Tattoine or Lok, green on Naboo, or however the player sees fit, maybe red on Naboo).

I would suggest it be on by default upon implementation and a white boarder to make it obvious for people to see, but have tutorial tooltips show up to help people understand the change and how to customize.

If it's only visible on the player's end and not global, I think this would keep with the gameplay immersion, but also add a great functionality to the city feature in the game.
 
It would be ideal if it was able to be individually toggled; not being a mayor I won't need it on all the time but only when trying to find a place close to my house to drop a factory or harvester.
 
Late reply....

If it's Simpler, which this is me assuming it might be.

It'd be the Options Personal toggle variant. It might be more prudent, as for it to not be immersion breaking and easier on the work load.
Just a border line that can be seen plainly that can just be turned off by the user.
But hey I'm probably a minor voice here. Just trying to give feedback.

A fancy Town border could be a fun thing for some Rp Cities. People already kind of try to do that with storyteller tokens.
 
I like this idea. I've only been here 3 months, and I've dropped a few houses for my toons, and knowing where the boundaries are would be great. When I saw what Bantha Cairns had done when I was there for the event, I loved it. But something subtle would be great.
 
(not sure how the system itself works) but what if you just added the outline in the building management? so it only shows when placing structures down?
 
A faint visual line lets all know where a border is.
This also helps you from traveling into pvp zone and getring rubber banded baxk to starport like on yavin folks
 
approved for city update on roadmap, will be personal visual option that can be toggled on and off
 
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