Thank you for this active discussions, fellow citizens of Rome!

Now, some points here in reply to the latest posts. I'm in agreement with Diantha and many others, but at the moment I can still see two viable options.

I think we could:

(a) leave the money thing out completely, as suggested here

or

(b) make the money thing very different, as suggested here, and a possible way of doing this would be setting a 2800 or 3000 sesterce limit for living in a domus, everyone below that would live in an insula.

This latter option would not be for patrons mainly but also for active citizens. Having joined one group, and become a citizen when reaching 2200 sesterces, the new member of AW would first live in an insula at the hill of his/her choice and soon s/he could move to a full domus, with his/her family.

I'd be happy if there was discussion on this!

Let us scrap the part about Palatine being for the rich. That was only to incorporate many ideas earlier on this topic about social classes and the way Palatine should be a palace hill. Let's make the accomodation rather uniform and see that there will be specific themes for each hill. The name of the hill should not affect the choices of the people.

What comes to Paullus's suggestion, exactly that is what we had in mind: the groups would be "housed" by public buildings in that neighbourhood the theme of which the group suits best.


And on a personal note, thanks to Artemisia for that kind comment! :-)