Feature Suggestion: "Realistic" city names

[Xiao Xiong]

Hello Civ5 people.

I have what I think is a relatively simple feature which I think would enhance Civ5. I don't know if you're too far along to include it yet:

Pseudo-realistic city names!

By this I mean when you found a new city instead of just picking the "next" city in the list, pick the next city that matches the geographic features of the location.

So a city would not be called "London" unless it was a coastal city on a river.

This could be done by simply having a list of attributes for a city that have to be present in the location before the city name could be used. If you run out of city names you could start using "inappropriate" names so that this does not require creating more names than exist today.

Just a thought, carry on with your great work!

 

[LDiCesare]

Rhye does this well for Earth map.
Otherwise, on non earth maps, this cannot work.

 

[Ahriman]

How would match every city name to some kind of geographic description?

London is the capital of England; what does it have to do with being a "coastal" city on a river?

Which English city names would you use for a city on flood plains? Or surrounded by high mountains? Or on arid plains not on a river? Or in a desert? Or in tundra?
Just about every city in England is on a river, and most are coastal, and basically all of England is grassland in Civ4 terms.

This seems infeasible to me. Civs won't necessarily be in similar kinds of terrain to their Earth history counterparts.

 

[Rhye]

what you ask is already being done in RFC RAND:

http://rhye.civfanatics.net/pages/civ4-RFCRAND-description.php

 

[Provost Martin]

It would be neat if you were presented with a list of available names when you found a city instead of them always going from first to last.

 

[Afforess]

Like this?

 

[Tigernose]

They could at least divide it by coastal and midland names.

 

[Suho1004]

I agree with Provost Martin. Rather than trying to program something like that (which would get complicated when not playing on an earth map), I'd rather just be able to choose from a list.

 

[need my speed]

And, besides that, create my own name.

 

[Suho1004]

Well, yes, that too. I would imagine that they would retain the option of entering your own name.

 

[MAHRana]

It's true that the Rhyse mod does that, that each particular tile has a preset city name for every empire, it's a good idea to include that in every Earth map

 

[Xiao Xiong]

London is the capital of England; what does it have to do with being a "coastal" city on a river?

Because London is a coastal city on a river? If you think that it's important not to do this with the first city, you could do it from the 2nd city on.

 

[Ahriman]

Its a "coastal" (not really) city on a river on Earth. Not on any game where you happen to be playing England.

Again, what English city names do you use for flood plains, desert, tundra, plains or mountains?

 

[Sporknife]

Its a "coastal" (not really) city on a river on Earth. Not on any game where you happen to be playing England.

Again, what English city names do you use for flood plains, desert, tundra, plains or mountains?

He said it in the OP. If it wasn't applicable, then the game would just take a random city name from a list of cities in the civ.

 

[MAHRana]

It's easier if Civ names the city for you if the settlement matches specific criteria and if not, it either automatically names the city. From a list of names, or allows you to name it.