[Development] City Name Suggestions

[freethink]

Especially for the US you also shouldn't underestimate how much harkening back to Roman times was part of the national mythology especially in the early years.

Indeed, for this purpose I even got a book to help me find all of these names, especially their original versions to use in the map.

Really with the abundance I have to make choices including ie: whether to put "Nova Athene" in Atlanta (close to Athens Georgia) or Nashville where a replica of the Parthenon stands.

For others I used 'Augusta Treverorum" as a guide for putting a roman and native name together.

 

[Krieger-FS]

Found this interesting list in wikipedia that may help with these Latin city names. There are some interesting names for cities all over the Americas and other places in the world!

 

[freethink]

Found this interesting list in wikipedia that may help with these Latin city names. There are some interesting names for cities all over the Americas and other places in the world!

This is great!
I also use the Latin Wikipedia as well
With these resources, I hope we can attain the following

Edit:

• Roman names for all major cities of the world
• Roman names for rural areas that can be colonized
• Roman names for all potential vassals (I already did this on another thread but it could use review)

When I first played Civ when I was 11 I saw Rome as the quintessential civilization and even though I understood that the maps were randomized I always hoped for a world simulator that would feel real but also allow me to perform somewhat ahistorical outcomes like Rome spreading everywhere. I say somewhat because we all know that Rome indirectly spread anyway.

This might also help with Africa:

http://pervokarta.ru/Ptol_WAfrica.pdf

 

[rob-art1985]

My suggestions for Germany

Spoiler Germany :

 

[ThreeBlackSevens]

Just a note regarding native names in parts of Canada - starting in the mid 80s, towns in Nunavut and some in NWT and northern Quebec began officially changing their names from the English ones (Frobisher Bay, Eskimo Point) to Inuktitut ones (Iqaluit, Arviat). I'm not sure if this is the place to put it but I think that that should be reflected in the game - maybe just for convenience having them all do it at the same time like 1990 or 1995. I could make a list of towns that have done that which appear on the map if that would help!

It could also be conditional on civics - if so, I was thinking it would be something along the lines of:
- Not State Party or Despotism
- No legitimacy requirement
- Egalitarianism, Individualism, or Traditionalism
- No economy requirement
- No state religion (Alternatively, no state religion unless also running Tolerance. To be honest I don't think I could make a good unbiased opinion here on which is better )
- Sovereignty, Isolationism, or Multilateralism (more like not any of the other ones in terms of reasoning)

Finally I'm not sure what should happen if the towns exist but aren't owned by Canada. My first thought was that if they are owned by a non-European civ they rename in the same way, if they are owned by a European civ they don't rename, and if they are Independent they default to the Inuktitut names even if it's too early. But I'm not sure.

 

[Leoreth]

I am starting to integrate the current city name suggestions into the mod. In other words, now is the worst time to make changes to the existing google sheet.

I plan to make an "official" synced google sheet available soon as the proper conduit to suggesting changes.

 

[Leoreth]

However, I already have two observations:

1. Some suggested names contain illegal characters. Please refer to the Latin-1 code page to see which characters can be rendered by the game.
2. For transliterated Cyrillic city names (i.e. Russian) I would like to follow the standards used by wikipedia. Most notably, that means dropping ь in most cases instead of representing it using '.

I will fix (1) in the process of integrating it but (2) needs to be fixed later before the name translations are built again.

 

[ThreeBlackSevens]

I am starting to integrate the current city name suggestions into the mod. In other words, now is the worst time to make changes to the existing google sheet.

I plan to make an "official" synced google sheet available soon as the proper conduit to suggesting changes.

Adding names to empty tiles is still a go though? Or will ones that are empty now just be filled in with adjacent names?

 

[Leoreth]

The concern is that I want to channel suggestions into one place that is in sync with what is currently in the game. And I currently do not have that place ready yet.

I did a quick programmatic check of which tiles are yet unnamed and it seems that none of them are actually settleable, though.