city names

Thanks to various user patches, many of Civ2's original engine limits have been overcome: a game map can cover over 30,000 tiles, thousands of units and hundreds of cities. Suffice to say, the original 20–30 city namelist average starts to feel inadequate. Several weeks ago I started musing...

I wonder how others name their cities. Usually I leave the capital as it is named, but newly founded cities start with the resources in their name. For example a city with Stone and Horse will be named StoneHorse (or HorseStone). This allows me to easily identify the city when I see its name...

Periphery is a deceptively simple mod for Civ 6 which renames all base game and DLC city-states after their real-life current and historical nations. This is by renaming the mini-'Civ' which owns the city-state- so what appears in the city-state menu- but not the actual city owned by said...

Apologies in advance if this is not the right forum. This is basically a posting game revolving around City Lore. Post the name of a city and some juicy gossip around it, like so: I hear they do naughty things in the Phoenician City of Sexi. City of Maitland? I thought "Mate Land," was just a...

Ever wish cities were a bit more dynamic? That the cities you conquered felt like they were a part of your empire now? Then this mod is for you! Rosetta - Dynamic City Names changes cities' names according to their owner. It also prevents duplicate names from showing up in the same game (ex...

So with the mod I'm currently developing the second city I founded grabbed the name 'Mecca' instead of what I have told it are names for dutch cities. Thus my brain formulated a few questions: Is there a minimum amount of city names required? Is there a maximum? Can someone provide an example...

Do you use your own names for your cities as you make them? I do, I'll use things like planet names from Frank Herbert's "Dune" stories, chemical elements, islands from Carrier Command, landforms e.g. "South Beach", "Three Peaks", that sort of thing. When I played Greece I used names of greek...