- Proposal
- Remove architect lighting from the city decoration limits, effectively making the number unlimited.
- Justification
- Mayors already use the storyteller lighting to light up their cities beyond what is currently possible with the city decoration limitations. Allowing them to use the wider variety of colors and lighting styles offered by the architect profession will not affect the number of lights in the cities, as they are already there. However, it will allow cities to make themselves more unique via color and style options, and will utilize the architect lights the way they were meant to be used, as outside lighting in player cities.
- Motivation
- Player city lighting is too homogenized because mayors need to use storyteller lighting, which is white, to light up their entire cities for all citizens, due to architect lights being included in the city decoration limits. Currently, mayors have to choose between having coverage for the city with gardens, fountains, and statues, OR being able to set their city apart by using the colored lighting available from architects. Mayors could use both, but when the city grows enough, one or the other suffers. All citizens should be able to have housing near both features.
Allowing player cities to use the colored architect lights in an unlimited fashion can completely change the look and feel of a city, making each one that much more special and unique.
