AI rename city on capture?

[Pwyll]

I am working on my first new civilization mod, and I would like this civilization to rename any cities they capture to the next available name in their city names list. Anyone have any idea how to do this? I would like this behavior to be limited to the new civilization if possible. Thanks in advance!

 

[Bill3000]

Check the python in the Greek World scenario. It has exactly what you want.

 

[Pwyll]

Thanks! It looks like I need to overwrite the onCityAcquired method to add a line to call a custom method that will rename the city. That part is the same as the GreekWorld mod. But the GreekWorld mod uses a custom checkCities function that checks who owns particular cities and renames them accordingly (Istanbul was Constantinople, Now its Istanbul not Constantinople...)

What I'm trying to do is a little different as I do not have preset cities. For now, I am only adding this civilization, not an entire scenario, though I think I will try to create one with this civ later.

Without preset civilizations in a game, how do I check that the new owner is my custom civilization? Can I pass owner from the argsList in onCityAcquired to my custom method and then call owner.getCivilizationName()? If so, do I use the short name to compare?

Once I get that part down, I think I will need some of the code from onCityBuilt, so a popup appears if the player is human asking to rename the city. I'm not sure how to acquire the next available name from the civ's list.

 

[Pwyll]

Can any of the local Python gurus take a shot at this? I've been trying to hammer away at it, but without much luck. I'm trying to learn a new language (Python) and the Civ API at the same time, and I'm a little over my head methinks.