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What 's the big picture?
Having played a fair number of games, with empires growing to near unmanageable sizes, I find it useful to name cities in ways that me remember where I am. I discovered this after I had mixed up the Memphis in one game with the Memphis in another and built the wrong thing in it:mutant:.
City names can help to make clear why that city was built on a particular spot, and dreaming up interesting names provides an additional challenge. In one game I was James Bond of the Spies, built Leonardo's Workshop in the city of Q, and had a town called Dom Perignon near some wines, in another I named a town Suez because it cut a continent in two and allowed ships to sail through it.
Also, if you know that there is a Russian civ for example, but have not made contact with them yet, you can try naming a town Kiev to see if they have already founded their third town. If they have, you will be prompted for a new name, if not, you 're stuck with Kiev
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The ability to provide a name when a city is founded is never discussed in these forums, unless I missed something, but I do not believe I am the only one who does this.
The question therefore is: do you supply unique names to your cities?
City names can help to make clear why that city was built on a particular spot, and dreaming up interesting names provides an additional challenge. In one game I was James Bond of the Spies, built Leonardo's Workshop in the city of Q, and had a town called Dom Perignon near some wines, in another I named a town Suez because it cut a continent in two and allowed ships to sail through it.
Also, if you know that there is a Russian civ for example, but have not made contact with them yet, you can try naming a town Kiev to see if they have already founded their third town. If they have, you will be prompted for a new name, if not, you 're stuck with Kiev
.The ability to provide a name when a city is founded is never discussed in these forums, unless I missed something, but I do not believe I am the only one who does this.
The question therefore is: do you supply unique names to your cities?
