I would love this! It could pop up the same "change your details" screen, but applying to your new colony.
However, this is an enhancement request and doesn't apply to the original bug. It wouldn't help with there being two AI Greeces, for example, as you wouldn't have a chance to change it.
And it is a bug. Everything in a game is a feature until it causes significant problems, at which time it becomes a bug.
On another point... I changed my CIV4CivilizationInfos.xml file, so that every Civ now has a preferred Civ choice for their first colony. Also I removed quite a few of the preferences for making America. If anyone wants it, let me know.
Right. Which is why a list of at least two or three "default" colony names for each civ
in addition to the colony re-name option would be the best solution.
Here's a partial list off the top of my head. I tried to come up with at least three names for each civ, and I cheated with "New [Civ Name]" where my knowledge was insufficient for even a bad guess. Note that some of the ones I did come up with do not quite meet the historical purity test. (Technically, Philippines should certainly be Spanish, not American colony; Mexico is arguably Aztec, not Spanish; I cheated by claiming Cyprus to be a colony of both Greece
and Turkey; using crusader states as Byzantine "colonies", using internal regions for some nations that did not have overseas settlements, etc.) Where possible, I tried to use non-contiguous examples (hence inclusion of Bahrain as an Arab colony….)
My idea here is that, with this modification, it will not be necessary to assign any particular civ as being the "derivative" civ. With the new name, any leader can fill in the gap, so to speak, so long as leaders themselves are not duplicative.
Constructive feedback welcomed. If someone could come up with better colony names (especially) for Byzantium, Persia, and Sumer.
America --> Philippines, Puerto Rico, Panama, Alaska, Hawai'i, Guam
Arabia --> Al-Andalus, Zanzibar, Somalia, Bahrain,
Aztec --> Aztlan, Nahua, New Aztec
Babylon --> Chaldea, New Babylon
Byzantine --> Antioch, Tripoli, Edessa
Carthage --> Libya, Hispania, Sardinia
Celts --> Eire, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall.
China --> Taiwan, Hainan, Singapore.
Egypt --> Nubia, Phoenicia, New Egypt
England --> Ulster, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Rhodesia
Ethiopia --> Eritrea, Tigre, Ogaden
France --> Quebec, Algeria, Cochin China, Senegal, Martinique
Germany --> Austria, Lithuania, Tanganyika
Greece --> Crete, Rhodes, Macedonia, Kypros
Holy Roman Empire --> Prussia, Saxony, Poland
Inca --> Chinchay Suyu, Anti Suyu, Kunti Suyu, Qulla Suyu
India --> Ceylon, Maldives, Andaman
Japan-->Okinawa, New Japan
Khmer --> Vietnam
, Laos, Thailand, New Khmer
Korea --> Goguryeo, Cheju-do, New Korea
Mali --> Berber, Ghana, Sokoto, Tuareg
Maya --> Carib, New Maya
Mongolia --> Kipchak Khanate, Ilkhanate, Chaghadai Khanate, Manchuria
Native America --> Cherokee, Iroquois, Sioux, Navajo
Netherlands --> East Indies, Boers, New Netherlands, Curacao, Formosa, Suriname
Ottoman Empire --> Iraq, Syria, Libya, Kibris, Turkiye
Persia--> Media,Bactria, Parthia, Balochistan.
Portugal --> Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea, Timor, Goa.
Rome--> Gaul, Dalmatia, Dacia, Lusitania, Britannia.
Russia --> Ukraine, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Finland, Tannu Tuva.
Spain --> Mexico, Argentina, Chile, New Granada, Peru, Rio de Oro.
Sumer--> New Sumer
Vikings --> Iceland, Greenland, Vinland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway
Zululand --> Zimbabwe, Zambia, New Zululand
