Very nice! I'll probably contribute more names over time.As I said before, I’m messing around researching and making city names suggestions for the new map. I have to say that is quite fun doing so, and I’m having a blast discovering obscure colonial and lost settlements, the original names of many cities and so on.
I’ve used LacsiraxAriscal's work as base and updated the map with the most recent terrain adjustments (also with altered Lake Chad location that I’ve proposed in the Map Suggestions thread). So far, I’ve revised city names in the entirety of South America, Caribbean, Central America (south of Guatemala), South Atlantic islands, Madagascar and Southern Indian Ocean islands and, just for fun, Antarctic Peninsula. I think my suggestion's rationale in including names will be evident if you look those areas (and I tried to follow more or less Lacsirax's example), but I'm open to explain it in more detail.
Since this is a collective work by DoC community, I’m sharing my updated spreadsheet for everyone contribute as they could. There are large areas that still don’t have any city names and other places need more consistent revisions; even more complete areas like Europe, India and China are lacking many alternative names for existing cities and may need revision on locations. So certainly we need as much help as possible!
I’m planning next to work in sub-Saharian Africa starting with former Portuguese colonies, Kingdom of Zimbabwe, and the Sahelian Kingdoms.
Great, looking forward for your suggestions!Very nice! I'll probably contribute more names over time.
Does anyone happen to know what the numbers mean on tiles with no city names?
Maybe we could move the river that is North of Seoul 1S, and instead of trying to cram 3 cities that can't even work their first ring into Korea, we could have just Seoul and Pyongyang, both able to work their entire first ring of tiles. There are places where I do want to fit in more cities because of the new map (i.e. Iberia), but I really don't think Pusan (which is most notable for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pusan_Perimeter from the Korean War) merits cramming three cities with only 1 tile between them.View attachment 605737
My suggestions on the "Korea" region.
Name changes that should take place:
Spoiler Name changes :
Hanseong -> Seoul (Industrial)
Dongrae -> Busan (Industrial)
Seorabeol -> Gyeongju (Medival)
Also including a screenshot of soul-breathing's suggestions for this region,
and comparions/reasons for my choices against his.
Spoiler soul-breathing :View attachment 605736
Taejon(Daejon) is a relatively new city that rose to importance in the early 20c.
Until then, Gongju has always been the most populous and politically important city in the surrounding region.
It was once the capital of the Baekje kingdom, and was a provincial capital during the Joseon dynasty.
Likewise, Kwangju(Gwangju) has been the less important city to Jeonju, until the late 20c.
Jeonju has been the effective provincial capital of the region since 8c,
and was one of the most populous/politically significant cities during the Joseon dynasty.
Likewise, Taegu(Daegu) and Pohang only rose to importance in 20c.
and so I have replaced them with Jinju and Sangju.
Chungju and Wonju are both important cities, but I'd say that location (east of Seoul) would be closer to Wonju.
Chungju is located further south.
Sinuiju is a new city that was seperated from the city of Uiju in 1904. "Sin" literally means "new".
I moved Uiju 1 tile west, and put Kanggye there instead.
Kanggye was an important military stronghold during the Joseon period.
Kimchaek is actually Seongjin; North Korea renamed the city after a general who died during the Korean war.
Anyway, Chongjin is the bigger city in that area, so I'd say Chongjin would be the better choice.
Soul-breathing's location of Chongjin (1tile north of mine) is too up north;
I replaced it with Rajin, which is another important harbor in the NK eastern coast.
Jolbon was the first capital of the Kokuryo(Goguryeo) kingdom; it was only captial for 50 years or so until it was moved to-
Gungnae, which lasted as capital for 424 years, until the capital was moved to Pyongyang.
The location of Gungnae is about where the modern Chinese city of Tonghua stands.
Sangyeong was the capital of the Balhae kingdom (698-926),
which was a state founded by the refugees from the fallen Kokuryo kingdom.
By current do you mean the small map currently used in the game, or the current version of the big map?Looks like the current map fits Pyongyang and Seoul.
ThanksThe current state of the big map.
The South African city placement isn't that great, here's my proposal for thatAnother update about the spreadsheet:
I've added and revised city names for Namibia, Botswana, Tanzania, Great Lakes, Guinea region, most of Sahel (notable exception with Sudan, since I've made some map suggestions there regarding the upper Nile course that affect CNM but were probably missed within the North American West Coast discussion) and few areas in Western Sahara. In addition, someone also made several suggestions for Russia that were also all included.
Soon I'll post another batch of map suggestions for Africa regarding most of these places (mostly small things like adjusting terrain/resources), but next will be a more substantial proposal revising the Sahara.
As always, I'm hoping for some suggestions from the community. There are large areas still without city names and others are in dire need of revision, so all help is welcomed. And since this is a large collective work, any contribution hopefully will bring us closer to playing with the new map sooner!