I really like this suggestion. I'll try to find a way to add this.

Thank you Zaify, I would also like to bring up the idea of giving unique perks to each category and limiting the amount of categories each nation can have depending on it's total town size.

Example: Nation A has 30 towns, has a maximum of 3 naval port categories to distribute.

Nation B has 20 towns, has a maximum of 2 naval ports to distribute.

Naval ports could produce extra resources such as concrete or give distinct perks no other category has.

Merchant towns could be unlocked at 10 or 20 towns and have the ability to have an /ah plot, etc

Ofcourse this one has many loopholes which can be abused so there would be big restrictions preventing categories to be tossed around on a daily basis.

I believe the server ought to at least assign the developed and undeveloped town icons since town level, as boring as it may be, is generally a good proxy for town development.

>town level/population is a generally accurate measure of development
It is an accurate measure of the rate of development, but not an accurate measure of it being developed or undeveloped.

Even if one assumes the population level is generally correlated with the "developed" or "undeveloped" status, a nation leader is a better judge of the town's infrastructure and buildings. Assigning a population number to a town's "developed" status is arbitrary. What's the difference between a 20 member town and a 15 member town? There is no town I can think of that has 20 *active* members either way.

For example towns such as South Korea, Shiganshina, Sapporo, Tsargrad and many more towns including Celle are highly developed yet have populations <20.

Even my own town had >40 residents one year ago when it was a patch of grass, yet today it is one of the most developed towns in Asia with 9 residents.

how do you think this can be implemented... like staff gonna click on every single town to see what they are and set them manually? 💀

@Ruleblocks
"Only high ranked nation officials are able to appoint town categories, this incentivizes mayors to develop their town for an emblem to be bestowed upon them. It also increases the accuracy of each town's category as nation leaders strive for a higher quality control."

Basically Coleaders etc

based suggestion