Interesting Screenshots

[Lanzelot]

Salzburg never belonged to Germany, it is an austrian city.

But Austria was a German state from like 900 AD to 1806 AD, not?

But you are right regarding the misspellings. I always shiver, when I see an AI city named Heidelburg...

 

[Kirejara]

But Austria was a German state from like 900 AD to 1806 AD, not?

yes, but do not you think that it could be a little tricky to use the borders of the Heiligen Römischen Reiches deutscher Nation (english: Holy Roman Empire)?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Roman_Empire_1000_map-de.png

According to that, is Rome a german city.

I always shiver, when I see an AI city named Heidelburg...

Completly understandable. That was my starting reason to overhaul the city list.

 

[Bowsling]

I've always assumed that Germany in the game represents the Prussia-German Empire sort of affair. Salzburg for some reason is included. If they were to include Austrian cities, they might as well stick Vienna pretty high up on the list, as well as Innsbruck and Graz. I did that when I redid some of the other city lists.

Sometimes, I wonder if they just threw darts at a map for some civs.

 

[templar_x]

be careful counting Salzburg as "Austrian" city rather than a German one. for most of the centuries this does not hold true, even though Austrians act as if Salzburg always had been a part of Austria...

but in fact this city and land was independently led by a catholic archbishop until the early 1800s! only after the Napoleonic wars it became secularized and part of Austria.

this means that even Mozart was not "Austrian", which was a description practically nobody back then would have used for himself anyway, except maybe the Habsburgs

t_x

 

[choxorn]

I've always assumed that Germany in the game represents the Prussia-German Empire sort of affair. Salzburg for some reason is included. If they were to include Austrian cities, they might as well stick Vienna pretty high up on the list, as well as Innsbruck and Graz. I did that when I redid some of the other city lists.

Sometimes, I wonder if they just threw darts at a map for some civs.

That would explain some of them, and I also have to wonder how they decided to order the names, because the orders looks almost random for most civs.

 

[Bowsling]

But see, the game seems to count Germany and Austria as separate - even though that distinction was only made in 1867 (I think?). By that time, Salzburg was Austrian.

There is a similar situation over Kiev and Minsk, which were removed from the Russian city list in one of the expansions, even though both cities, especially Kiev, were important cities in Russian history.

 

[Theov]

Hi Theov,


The german city list was also very short. I doubled the number of cities in it.

Could you share your german city list with the rest of us?
ps. Even Civ1 had Salzburg and Heidelburg.

The Dutch city list has Holwerd (some 1500 people town), Lauwersoog (a 152 people town - no typo - exists since 1969 - no typo) and Leerdam (20.000+ has some historic value, but no one will mistake it for a city).

 

[uat2d]

 

[Kirejara]

Could you share your german city list with the rest of us?

As You wish:

Berlin
Leipzig
Hamburg
Königsberg
Frankfurt
München
Braunschweig
Heidelberg
Nürnberg
Köln
Aachen
Hannover
Bremen
Bremerhaven
Stuttgart
Ulm
Bonn
Karlsruhe
Dortmund
Chemnitz
Dresden
Magdeburg
Stuttgart
Worms
Speyer
Kiel
Flensburg
Schleswig
Rendsburg
Lübeck
Mölln
Oldenburg
Burg
Münster
Neumünster
Bochum
Schweinfurt
Regensburg
Ingolstadt
Erfurt
Passau
Augsburg
Wilhelmshaven

Please note that I have used so called "Umlaute" (Sorry, I do not know the english word). I am not sure if they look right on a PC without german keyboard layout.

 

[Bartleby]

FYI the English word is "umlaut".

 

[choxorn]

We reject your foreign ways of spelling your city names with your own language! English FTW! USA! USA!

 

[Kirejara]

We reject your foreign ways of spelling your city names with your own language! English FTW! USA! USA!

you mean, that the Golden Gate Bridge is near the city of Holy Francis?

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

There is a similar situation over Kiev and Minsk, which were removed from the Russian city list in one of the expansions

Oh, they were, weren't they? I could forgive Civ1 since that was released in '91, but by Civ2 I felt that they were conflating 'Russian' with 'Soviet'.

 

[choxorn]

you mean, that the Golden Gate Bridge is near the city of Holy Francis?

... Well Played.

 

[Bowsling]

Oh, they were, weren't they? I could forgive Civ1 since that was released in '91, but by Civ2 I felt that they were conflating 'Russian' with 'Soviet'.

Kiev and Minsk were Russian cities long before the Soviet Union.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

Depends what you mean by 'Russian'.

 

[Bowsling]

If you're going to exclude everything that ever was a part of Lithuania, you'd have to remove Smolensk, Bryansk, and even Moscow among others.

The Kievan Rus were Russian before it was cool.

Plus, there's a five hundred year gap between your examples and the USSR.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

Just sayin', they've been on the outside longer than the inside.

 

[r16]

ships attacking cities and getting killed

Certainly freaks me out everytime it happens. Quite frequently, too.

the latest episode saw a ship travelling what must be a quarter of a huge pangea map to land a swordsman and a settler next to a city of mine and attack . The ship was redlined to a single bar and stopped by the pikeman equivalent in the game . Guess what , it attacked once again ...

returning to screenshots , it's certainly rare to be that besieged in CivIII , the game of stacks .

as the picture name implies , the situation must have been posted in the thread . The workers up there appeared walking away from me . ı think they would have entered the visibility zone , but whan ı put something where they were going , they returned , already slated to be seen .

and some glory and bragging , Isengard crashing into Mordor .

a right situation for a catchy phrase like when step on things , they tend to get buried in the dirt .

 

[Kirejara]

Why? Did they land on the wrong island?

After being dropped of north of Prilep by a junk, the settler and its escort just fortified on the mountain for the next few rounds.

In the east were still some free islands available.

And yes, this is obviously an earth map, but Celts, Hittities and Byzantines have their starting positions in Australia and the Philipines. Europe and the Middle East are still very crowded.