As a roleplayer myself and not sure how involved others are in this community, but has anyone considered developing a sketch of each cities business district?  Creating a map showcasing the vacant businesses and existing ones so it could further the creativity used or simply just immerse the roleplayer deeper into the scenario?

With the addition to roleplaying in the forums, some details as simple as that would really develop and cause more interaction. 

Though being relatively new to MR something like this might all ready exist in certain cities.

Well i like the idea to a degree as showing vacant businesses this would not work as there are unlimited businesses so in theory if everyone on MR wanted to they could make a business although might not be the best for the DB around 500 topics popping up especially if they get active. Any way it would be semi nice to be able to click on the the businesses but it wouldn't be the best as one of the things i like (and a lot of others do as well) is the fact that this really is a text based game how many images are there really on this whole site excluding profile pics? but others call themselves text based yet there are 20 million pictures all over there site.

Well they are my thoughts any way and it's good for a new idea to pop up :)

True, I see what you mean, but for those new or wishing to browse the active businesses having a visual of the names and the active business would help.  Even if the map is a simple powerpoint using boxes to showcase the locations on the street.  Wasn't considering any special added software to the game...a simple sticky on the forums with an image built from photoshop or powerpoint would suffice in my eyes at least.

Guess in the end, those representing the cities as Don's or Godfather's would be the best choice for developing something like this since I am sure the admins have plenty to handle.

hmm... I think a text basaed map could do the trick

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|   ,   |X's Bar
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|   ,   |Y's resto
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|   ,   |_ _ _ _ Toni's coffee shop_ _
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              |   ,  |Sam's night club
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Hey that works...I noticed the ability to post an image in side of threads is not an option, but a link posted from an FTP or on an image hosting site would also suffice.  I know in time if I ever get to a point where I can assist or lead I will bring as much depth as possible to the roleplay side.

As it stands right now, I am going to do my best to improve the roleplay side of things when and where I can.  To be honest, I have played a lot of these browser games in the past, and MR has something different that I can't really explain in words yet, but it also has ton of potential with the help of other creative minds.