Do you guys name your cities?

[phoenix_sprite]

Stratagist IV: you mean Termina?

Or if it's a big city besides the sea I name them Atlantis, Lemuria, Mou. I always rename London Airstrip 1 (for 1984). I also rename cities after music artists or groups. (Mika, Picasso, Supertramp)

 

[Tronicoz]

i don't name em once, i named all my cities to Jönköping, norrköping linköping mm

 

[DrewTate]

PHOENIX!


my post was too long

 

[DNK]

I call mine Phoenix if it's built over a previously razed city.

Or "_____ Again..."

But this happens once in never in my games.

 

[warpus]

I name all my cities after members of phylum Platyhelminthes.

 

[DrewTate]

are you serious?

 

[Da_V_Man]

I always name my first 3 cities after my first, last and middle name respectivley. I always keep the names of captured cities, and name some of the ones I make. But If I name them, I name them really wierd names. But compared to some of the other civs' city names, they seem normal.

 

[flyingchicken]

mTlululukwazu sounds okay for a Zulu city, don't you think?

 

[Jedoc]

I generally keep the computer generated names if it's a Civ whose city names I'm familiar with. The Zulus and other tongue-twisters get generic descriptive names like Clam Harbor, Copperton, and The Stronghold. And, of course, if I build a city with stone in the fat cross, I'm pretty much powerless to stop myself naming it D. Rock City (because Detroit makes it two letters two long.)

I generally change the names of conquered cities to reflect the flavor of my own civ. If I'm the Romans and I take Delphi, it becomes Delphium. My Panzers roll over London, and it becomes Londonberg. If I'm playing as Tokugawa, I do phonetic translations using Japanese phenomes. And so on.

In short, I obviously have too much time on my hands.

 

[DrewTate]

Ha I took London the other day as the Romans and changed it to Londinium. So you aren't alone.

 

[Stratagist IV]

Stratagist IV: you mean Termina?

I guess I just ripped the name of and changed it to teramia, so no, I don't do Termina. I usually change the names I rip off

 

[TripleGemini]

I usually play as Rome and I want authentic Roman city names. Sometimes if I even capture an enemy city I will look up some city names on the internet and re-name it.

I've got a weird thing about having culturally accurate names... I went through the XML files and updated all of the "English" versions of the names to forms of the name that match the current or historically accurate version of the name. All I can say is that the Getty Museum runs one of my favorite sites for this http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/

I even did the same with the GP names. «sigh»

"Saul of Tarsus was born in München."