Speaking of City Naming: Baltimore??

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PDXJoe

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In a couple of my recent games (playing as Japan and the Incas, respectively), I noticed that when I run out of city names my next city is named 'Baltimore' by default? Is that some kinda joke? I'm sorry if this has been discussed before..I found nothing in my search of the forums here..

Now, I have a BA in East Asian Studies, but I cannot remember learning of a Japanese city by the name of Baltimore.
 
When you run of city names for your civ, the game resorts to city names of other civs. I guess this was seen as a better solution over giving them generic names like "Alpha Sector" or "Japanese 52".
 
I usually end up changing them to things like "PDXJoeville", or "OompaLoomaburg"
 
Commieland, Margaritaville :)
 
Civ III always amused me when it built New New York . . .
And who, I ask, put Richmond into the list of English cities ? I'm sure that the one in Yorkshire is a pleasant enough place, but alas it isn't a major city and there are many other places with surely a better claim to fame. Maybe one day I'll get round to a tiny bit of editing, though I don't really agree with modifying other people's programming.
 
Is Richmond of any historical importance? There are some places which aren't cities at all, but just famous battle fields (Thermopylae for example).
 
Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy in the US Civil War and is currently the capital of the state of Virginia. They probably figured that since the one in America was important to its history that the one in England would be too.
 
Has anybody discovered where these city names are stored and if they are easily user-editable? I think it would be rather fun to add a few obscure placenames of my own choosing to the English list (as that is where I live). :p I don't think I would be too keen to see Baltimore, America*, on my English map when it ran out of placenames if I could easily remedy the situation myself.

{*PS. Apologies to any American friends on here, it's just that I remarked to my partner earlier this evening how American TV shows and newsreaders tend to refer to non-US places as "Paris, France" or "London, England" etc. This always seems to me to be insulting the viewer's intelligence, particularly with major world cities like that. I would have thought the compulsory shot of Big Ben or the Eiffel Tower would be a bit of a giveaway myself but there's no acounting for the studio bosses' paranoia I suppose. :lol: }
 
Velvet-Glove said:
Has anybody discovered where these city names are stored and if they are easily user-editable? I think it would be rather fun to add a few obscure placenames of my own choosing to the English list (as that is where I live). :p I don't think I would be too keen to see Baltimore, America*, on my English map when it ran out of placenames if I could easily remedy the situation myself.

{*PS. Apologies to any American friends on here, it's just that I remarked to my partner earlier this evening how American TV shows and newsreaders tend to refer to non-US places as "Paris, France" or "London, England" etc. This always seems to me to be insulting the viewer's intelligence, particularly with major world cities like that. I would have thought the compulsory shot of Big Ben or the Eiffel Tower would be a bit of a giveaway myself but there's no acounting for the studio bosses' paranoia I suppose. :lol: }
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Yes, the city names are in the XML files, and editable.

As for the "Paris, France" and "London, England", thing- there are at least a Paris, Texas, and a London, Ontario...a TV producer's job is to vastly underestimate their audiences' intelligence...that's probably why they do it.

:D
 
It's an easy list to edit, sort of. But that explanation belongs in the C&C forum, you only need to edit two files though, CIV4CivilizationInfos.xml and CIV4GameTextInfos_Cities.xml. :)

Here in America we have such a hodge-podge collection of city names that we commonly include the state or country. If it's not an indian (as in native american) name it's copied from somewhere else. Heck, in Illinois alone we have Cairo, Paris, Hamburg, Berlin, etc... I guess that's what happens when people from everywhere else move in and name your cities :)
 
Great! Thanks Efexeye... I will have to look into that soon. :D

{Drat! Just look at the text under my avatar! hee hee! :lol: Where's the studio boss for this forum, maybe I should have words with him. ;) }
 
does it do the New City name? or just jump to balitmore? I like the New thing, except New York one lol. I'd rather be the Americans and have New New York than Moscow or Cumae.
 
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