Can I raise the max amount of characters in a city name?

Smooth Olaf · May 18, 2012

The game only lets me input city names with 15 characters or less. Can raise this somehow?

Moderator Action: Moved to the modding forum.

whoward69 · May 19, 2012

In SetCityName.xml

Code:

<EditBox CallOnChar="1" EditMode="1" Size="284,22" Anchor="C,C" ID="EditCityName" 
Font="TwCenMT20" [COLOR="red"]MaxLength="15"[/COLOR] />

I changed it to 30 and it seems to work OK.

In an ideal world you'd make a mod to do it, but for such a minor, personalized change ...

Smooth Olaf · May 22, 2012

That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

Smooth Olaf · Jan 20, 2014

I just got a new computer and installed my Civ 5 on it. I tried to once again change the character amount limit for city names, but when I follow these directions, I can't change the number. It's as if the file is read-only. I realize this is probably a head-slappingly basic question, but what am I doing wrong? I don't remember having this problem a couple years ago.

Synthlight · Jan 20, 2014

Smooth Olaf said:
I just got a new computer and installed my Civ 5 on it. I tried to once again change the character amount limit for city names, but when I follow these directions, I can't change the number. It's as if the file is read-only. I realize this is probably a head-slappingly basic question, but what am I doing wrong? I don't remember having this problem a couple years ago.

Assuming it is read only:
Right click -> Properties -> Uncheck "Read-only"

If it's under program files then there's a chance you don't have write permissions and will need to open it as an administrator. (The easiest way to do this is to open notepad or something as an administrator, then open the file.)

PrimoXanthous · Jan 20, 2014

whoward69 said:
In SetCityName.xml

Code:

<EditBox CallOnChar="1" EditMode="1" Size="284,22" Anchor="C,C" ID="EditCityName" Font="TwCenMT20" [COLOR="red"]MaxLength="15"[/COLOR] />

I changed it to 30 and it seems to work OK.

In an ideal world you'd make a mod to do it, but for such a minor, personalized change ...

wow that's cool, what about the Units? when a unit get a promotion you can rename it up to 15? characters. Is it possible to change that also?

whoward69 · Jan 21, 2014

knightmare13 said:
when a unit get a promotion you can rename it up to 15? characters. Is it possible to change that also?

Yep, it's in SetUnitName.xml

PrimoXanthous · Jan 21, 2014

whoward69 said:
Yep, it's in SetUnitName.xml

~~And where could I exactly find that?~~
EDIT: uh.. Nevermind

PrimoXanthous · Jan 21, 2014

Finally i could renamed my Spanish Frigate to "Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad"

thanks whoward69.
Could i somehow just make this a mod and update the game or i really need to changed the base game file?

whoward69 · Jan 21, 2014

Copy the SetUnitName.xml file into a mod, make the edit and set VFS=true - job done

Ethnicblaze · Jan 28, 2014

How do you raise the max of you civ name when you change it

Endermanwich · Sep 20, 2016

Where do I find it on MAC?

Can I raise the max amount of characters in a city name?

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