First to fly there: every town gets its own page
Since yesterday a visit counts over almost any populated place on Earth. Three minutes in the air over a village, and it goes into your list of cities. Until today those villages had nowhere to live on the site. They showed up in your own list and in the live feed, and that was it.
Now each of them gets a page at /c/<country>/<name>/, the same kind of address our city landings have always used. A village called Neustadt in Germany lives at /c/germany/neustadt/; a second Neustadt in another region gets the region added to the end. The page is created the moment a pilot counts the first visit there. Nobody writes these pages by hand and we don't import a list of villages in advance. The map grows where people actually fly.
What is on the page
- The discoverer. The first pilot whose visit counted, with the date. If that pilot keeps visits private, the page gives the date only.
- The mayor, for towns and cities. Villages and hamlets stay out of the mayor race, so their pages say so plainly. Visits there still count for your tiers, missions and achievements.
- Regulars and recent visits, with the tier and the number of days each pilot came back. Private pilots are counted in the numbers and never named.
- Pilots by tier, from one day up to thirty.
- Other places in the same region, linked to their own pages, and a link to the region page.
- A short set of rules and questions: how a visit counts, how the mayor is chosen, what discovering a place gives you.
Places that already have a city landing page, such as Hamburg or Lisbon, simply share it: the address is the same, so there is one page per town, not two.
Discovering pays
Being first is now worth something:
- 10 feathers and 10 XP for every new place you open, up to ten places a day.
- 50 feathers for the first place anyone opens in a region.
- 3 tridents for the first place in a country.
There is a new achievement branch for discoverers, counting places, regions and countries you were first in. Visits counted before today were credited retroactively, so pilots who flew over villages yesterday already have their places and rewards.
Where you find them
The place card on the map links to the page. So do your own cities list at /my/cities, the region pages and the rows in the live feed. Pages with real activity go into the sitemap. A page with a single visit stays out of the search index until more pilots fly there, so we don't fill search results with empty pages.
Chat for a place may come later. For now, pick a village nobody has flown over, spend three minutes above it, and put your name on it.