Ecuador and the Inca

[diegovelasco45]

I dont know wheather Im out of line or something but I offer a suggestion:

As I understand, RFC has in its code the names of the actual cities that represent the territories where a settler settles. For the inca, it comprises an small amount of territory but nonetheless, the names of the cities are wrong.

For example, Quito (Quitus in RFC) is almost in the center of present day colombia when it should actually be where the dye resource is in the the current map.

And Guayaquil, which in the time of the Incas was the land of the Huancavilcas or "Huancavilca" appears with the name of Chin-Chin, which is a Peruvian name for another region anyways.

Also, a world renowned place, the Galapagos Islands goes in this game as an Incan city of the south of Peru. Granted they werent inhabited at the time of the incan rise.

Also, where the desert cotton is, there was a city called Tomebamba (present day "Cuenca") which is also famous because it was raised to the ground on the Incan civil war.

Anyways, I hope someone cares Thanks for the attention.

 

[killerkebab]

I haven't seen the city name map in a while (you can open it in Excel if you really care ) but I believe Quito/Quitu covers more than one tile. The overlap is because the map in the real world isn't a square grid. There is overlap and so some cities can exist slightly out of their real world locations. Quito is hardly the biggest 'mistake' here
For instance: Denver, Kiev, Novgorod all cover FOUR tiles (and that's just off the top of my head)

As for the Galapagos, the city takes that name because there is no entry for the Inca at that location, therefore the game picks the first 'generic' name from the Inca list that Rhye wrote with placeholder names, for cities with no entry for their civ on the map. This is why the first city the Dutch settle outside of their city name map is called 's-Gravenhage, why you sometimes see the French settle 'Chartres' in random spots in Africa, and so on.

 

[diegovelasco45]

Ok, everything you said sounds logic, however the "Quitu" names start the spot I settle on the picture and goes northwards, but the real "Quitu" is far from that place.

Im sure there are plenty of places which are inaccurate as well, but I just felt i had to point out these specific ones since they are in my home country

 

[killerkebab]

Having taken a quick look at my world map, I'd say the location for Quito is fair. Maybe it would be better on the wheat, 1 tiles SW of where you have it on your screenshot. Not enough for me to worry about it, though

However the beauty of RFC is that you can edit this yourself
There are numerous threads on this already...

 

[Science Rules]

The Galapagos aren't included in the Incan City Name Manager, so a city founded there gets its name from the default list, which includes cities in Peru that didn't make the cut for inclusion in the geographically based list.

 

[BenZL43]

The best one is, since this region is about your homeland,
Would you mind sending us the correct one?
We will update the city name to make it better..
Though it won't be used in RFC since it's already in the final version,
your contribution will highly benefit those who are working in RFC Modmod like DoC or Synthesis.. so we could have a better city name for those area
What do you think ?

P.S : I could provide you a blind excel map that you can just fill it in to make it easier..

 

[diegovelasco45]

I think the ones I mentioned already are pretty much all I know about from that time period. Thank you for your help

 

[BenZL43]

Okay.. no problem