City Names

[Bandersnatching]

After work one day, I decided that I wanted to experience the most ridiculous ICS possible, in order to see all of the names of cities in a particular civ - the United States.
The map settings were:
Settler difficulty, Huge, Pangaea Plus, low water, Legendary Start, normal city-states, 1 AI player (lots of room to expand!)
I had never tried this before, and I can say with all honesty I'll never do it again. I'm getting enough gpt to outright buy 3 settlers/2 turns (with Big Ben and that Commerce Policy they only cost 300 gold) and I still can't expand fast enough to fill up the map in a reasonable amount of time.
I've got two questions: firstly, has anybody done anything like this before and what was their experience with it, and secondly, how many names did your chosen civ have for cities? The US has about 50; I've reached the point where it just starts spouting gibberish, but it seems that if the developers are going to add cities like Centralia, WA (population ~16,000) to the list they may as well go all the way and include at least 50 more city names - there are definitely more than that in the US, and the fake names irk me. Of course, this isn't really applicable to smaller and/or older civs, as there simply might not be enough city names without encroaching on others (and by the way, Honolulu is like the USA's 38th city, not sure how that would work with Polynesia in the game)
Well, that's about it. Thanks for reading this long and rambling post.

 

[kirbdog]

If Polynesia is in the game, America doesn't use that name.

If you use all the city names up for your civ, that are defined on your list, it will pull from other city names on the other lists.

Plenty have done this. If you do it with the Celts, you get an achieve. (A faster way to do this is to load 12 Celtic civs in one game.)

If it really does bother you, there is the possibility of adding city names with a mod or simply renaming your cities.

It wasn't really that long a post.

 

[Bandersnatching]

That Celt acheivement being 'Longest Name Ever' or some such? Yeah, I guess that I didn't connect that with what I was asking.
And there were names too strange to have been real cities, like 'Uqair' (which turns out to have been an ancient islamic fortress) or 'Le Bam' (wait seriously? 'Lebam is a census-designated location in Pacific County, WA' Population about 160. And have you ever heard of Gubba? Arraphka is another one I got (wiki says it's Assyrian, so probably part of Babylon).
Well, after about 1.5 minutes on google and wikipedia, I stand corrected. Most of the weird names were actual places, but not all from the USA. And after further settling, it appears that the other civ is Babylon.
Thanks for the info. I didn't know that you start taking the names of the other in-game civs once you run out of your own. Now I guess that I'll see what happens after that!

 

[LoneRebel]

Wait, I thought once you ran out of names it would simply start calling the new cities "New Washington" or something, like in Civ III. Having a "New New York" or a "New New Orleans" would be pretty strange though.

Instead, in Civ5 you apparently take city names from other civs? I have never heard of any of those places mentioned in the above post. If you say they're actually real places, that would explain it, but still, I find it a little hard to believe that even the other civs would use those as city names. Would anybody know if any civs actually have those city names?

 

[Arachnofiend]

Yup, if you run out of city names you start using the names from other civs. This is how Attila's name stealing ability works, he simply does not have any city names in the XML file. I'm sure some of those "gibberish" cities you encountered were Celtic.

 

[Cahillicus]

Yup, if you run out of city names you start using the names from other civs.

This is how I believe it worked in Civ IV