Edit: That one city at the end was moved down a tile, sorry I'm tired.
Check comments for complete cities.
Could it be a Game Pass thing?
Sorry if this is a repost.
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Hab Life
For most hive citizens who spend their lives trudging from their hab-stacks and mid-hive tenement blocks to dreary and repetitive jobs in the manufactorum, the service-corps and work crews, life represents a somewhat bleak monotony against which they struggle to make something of their sparse conditions, raise families and hope never to suffer the attentions of the nameless horrors that they fear are lurking in the dark universe beyond. On most Imperial hive worlds (and those of Calixis are no different), what little mass media exists is rigidly controlled by the Ecclesiarchy and state for reasons of security and moral instruction. Rampant materialism, outside of the rarefied classes of the highborn and wealthy, is all but unknown. But even the most unimaginative hab-dweller needs some kind of diversion and entertainment to take their minds off their hardships and fears. While the Imperial Creed and the Ecclesiarchy provide great solace for many, the average hive-worlder likes their pleasures simple, direct and visceral—taverns, refectories, music halls and cook-shops offer the most commonplace daily escapes, while visits to holo-lantern shows, the carnivora or circus, or the greenery of a sealed arbour dome, are costly and rare excursions.
There are, of course, some for whom these diversions are not enough; they plunge past the bright lights of the entertainment ’bergs into the shadows that stretch all the way down to the dangerous sinks and stews of underhive. There they find darker forms of quasi-legal and outright forbidden escapes, including the blood sport pits, wager-halls and fighting arenas, pound bars and dust dens, and all manner of other vices offered by a seething criminal underclass—watched over by enforcers often either corrupt themselves, or more interested in maintaining order than the law. Worst still for those who seek such escapes, weakness, ill-fortune or fatal curiosity lead to far more forbidden fruit, whose cost is greater than mere life.
This is from a small blurb in the Dark Heresy RPG [Inquisitors Handbook]. I like this portrayal of a Hive City, as its not quite as grimdark as those from other authors. And hey, blood sport pits are always fun!
Within the vast and frequently changing borders of the HRE there were many other large seemingly important cities that did not have a seat in the Imperial Diet and were not Free Imperial Cities, were there reasons preventing some cities from having this status? What kind of status and autonomy would say cities like Prague, Vienna, Antwerp and many other major cities located within the borders of the HRE but outside of the borders of modern Germany enjoy?
In my first veteran run dps was quite slow. We had to run teleport pools tree times before first clones appeared. I was having trouble with running teleport pools time to time. In my pov I had to keep boss close to pools but not sucked in but could not manage it every time. How do you position yourself while tanking?
And is this going to still be free even after the event?
I can't seem to find one in any of my sourcebooks and googling has been unfruitful.
Frederick Barbarossa is the leader of Germany in Civilization VI, his ability being Free Imperial Cities. The idea of free cities was unique to the Holy Roman Empire, which Barbarossa was leader of. I was really hoping they would take advantage of and edit the ability to have something to do with said ability; Maybe let him do something similar to puppeting in Civilization V where he receives the yields from the city, though he cannot control what they build, and any units made would belong to the free city (Which he is not at war with).
Is it possible to expand your borders as FC and become merchant republic government type? I tried by fabricating claims but casus belli isn't showing anywhere
I've been doing a bit of casual research on the HRE, and I'm having trouble finding information on what the the leaders of the Holy Roman Empire's free cities were called, and I can't even find any information on individual leaders of free cities. Italian cities states had Doges and many (like the Medicis) are well-known, what about the free cities?
The city of Augsburg has had a long history even back in 1503. Having been founded by the Romans and made into a provincial capital, the city has been sacked multiple times, by enemies from both the east and the west. Still, each time the city has risen like a Phoenix from the ashes, ever stronger. Located on the alpine river Lech which flows into the great river Danube, the city is a major economic centre, currently at the height of its relevance. Augsburg gained the rights of an imperial city and thus independence from the bishopric of Augsburg few hundred years ago, but there is still some tension in the air between the secular and the godly. The city is home to the important trading families of Fugger and Welser, among others. The former has a near monopoly in the mining trade of the alps, and the latter is known in history for colonizing the new world, and both have good relations with the Austrians. In our history books the city played a major role in the reformation and the crises that followed, turning protestant to the disdain of their namesake bishopric. The city is lead by a council of burghers, like most free cities in the empire.
As a (new) player I will strive to keep Augsburg relevant and unsacked, and to profit from trade. Maybe buying rights to colonize, maybe conquering some land, but for sure helping people in need (especially our gracious emperor, long may he live) with generous loans.
The emperor would grant every free city voting rights in legislature and reforms for 25k ducats. This would also grant you the title of Free Imperial City-State to differentiate you from the normal imperial cities. The title comes with more prestige and power in the empire.
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Over the last year, I've become interested in collecting coins, most notably schillings, of the Riga Free Imperial City period. I do have a copy of Fyodorov's Baltic Coins of the XIII to XVIII Centuries but it only lists the major types, and I'm very curious as to why there are so many varieties.
For example, this is a typical coin, with the obverse and reverse legends variants of CIVITATIS RIGENSIS and MONETA NOVA ARGENTEA, respectively. This one, struck the same year, has a reverse of MONETA NOVA RIGE, and this one, also from the same year, MONE NO RIGENSIS.
Varieties are not limited to just the legends. Coins have varying symbols for the legend separators, and positioning of the design elements. The lion's head in the gate can be very high, or even below the gate itself. This one from 1577 has the keys and date on the reverse so low that they overlap the inner ring.
Minting methods, from hand struck coins to a Walzwerk machine, changed in 1575, but varieties abound before and after the switch. Here are two from 1566, with a typical legend on the obverse, and one where the obverse has almost the same legend as the reverse (differing by one letter).
How were the dies of these coins produced? Why are there so many variations? I presume they were all struck at a single mint, so I would have expected more quality control, so to speak.
Also, certain dates seem much rarer than others. In that period, 1570-72 and 1575-78 are easily found, but 1573 seems to not exist, even though Fyodorov indicates schillings were minted for that date. Similarly, 1567 seems also to not be able to be found, while the other dates from the 1560s, while not common, are still obtainable. I know other denominations were minted sporadically - was there, perhaps, only a certain amount of silver to be allocated to coinage, so minting of, say, ferdings (valued at 9 schillings) in a given year means fewer schillings minted? Or, were there local economic conditions that precluded minting larger numbers of coins?
I'm very curious, but haven't found any definitive information. For
... keep reading on reddit ➡Doing a literary project set at this very interesting time, but my research seems to have hit a wall. Earlier the city had been governed by burggraves, but during its Renaissance peak it is a free imperial city. Who is actually in charge? Who "answers the telephones"? All I can find are vague references to an "hereditary oligarchy." Titles, names, general duties? Any scrap would help.
