Roman Legion
Emperor
You know how you have a river in your territory and its just a river, why not be able 2 name it. EX.Rhine river, Yellow River. and volcanoes, mountains, oceans.etc What I want 2 know is what does everyone think of this idea?
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Saltylicious
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Roman Legion said:
This has been suggested by someone else. The reaction was mixed, but I liked the idea.
Roman Legion
Emperor
sorry I didnt know. but thanks
I'd like to see the AI get the hang of doing that... someone else (I forget who - I'm not stealing your joke) made the quip: "I can see it now, Rhine 2, Sahara Desert 3" ... good idea, but I doubt the AI Will be able to handle it.
Hyronymus
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Indeed, when fully functional (fully = AI-proof) it's definetly great but if you end up with what Darwin420 mentioned you might as well switch it off. If the AI has problems with a civ growing larger than the amount of city names in a text file I fear the worst btw.
Yuri2356
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You could just make the AI not name terrain features, leaving it completley up to the players.
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There are thousands of seperate terrain features on earth, and you think it will be a problem finding names for them? O_o
One could also note that there are many Pikes Peak(s), for ex. in the Western US.
One could also note that there are many Pikes Peak(s), for ex. in the Western US.
bob rulz
Prince
It's simple...make it so the computer can't name features! You're playing from your civilization's point of view, so, essentially, the names that other civlizations choose for a specific terrain feature might not work for your civilization. There are different names for different regions on Earth (for example, Korea uses East Sea while Japan uses the Sea of Japan). It should be up to the player that names it.
One thing that I have always thought would be cool was a "history" thing, where you could click on a city and see "created in 500 BC, captured by the Arabs in 20 AD, Copernicus's Observatory built in 800 AD, etc". You could also be able to do that for an entire civilization. This would help in the naming features thing, such as "great battle takes place on the Great Plains between 100 AD and 220 AD between the Dutch and the Americans" or whatever. It would go hand and hand in naming. Plus, in multiplayer especially, it would help in teams: "Move your units into the Great Plains and prepare to attack them" or whatever. Naming things would be an interesting choice in my opinion, and could add a bit of flavor to the game.
One thing that I have always thought would be cool was a "history" thing, where you could click on a city and see "created in 500 BC, captured by the Arabs in 20 AD, Copernicus's Observatory built in 800 AD, etc". You could also be able to do that for an entire civilization. This would help in the naming features thing, such as "great battle takes place on the Great Plains between 100 AD and 220 AD between the Dutch and the Americans" or whatever. It would go hand and hand in naming. Plus, in multiplayer especially, it would help in teams: "Move your units into the Great Plains and prepare to attack them" or whatever. Naming things would be an interesting choice in my opinion, and could add a bit of flavor to the game.
