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yeah that is usually the first thing that pops into my head when i'm thinking about naming a city
Naming scheme discussion
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Caledorn
Emperor
yeah that is usually the first thing that pops into my head when i'm thinking about naming a city
I also like Hamsafar (which means journey together in Farsi). It should have some accents, if civ supports that in city names. Incidentally Hamsafar and Sukla-Krsne are my two favorite Christopher Tin songs in addition to Baba Yetu.
talonschild
Drive-By NESer
I was fond of Hamsafar, and also Kia Hora and the Portuguese one. Never much like Sukla Krsne. I think the harmonies were too unconventional.
Unless it's in the predefined city list (as I think is the case with Portugal), I don't think you can add accents. Though, to be fair, I haven't tried copy-pasting.
Unless it's in the predefined city list (as I think is the case with Portugal), I don't think you can add accents. Though, to be fair, I haven't tried copy-pasting.
Bowsling
Deity
Alt-Whatever worked in CivIII, and I'm fairly confident that it also works in CivIV.
Caledorn
Emperor
If accents are allowed, then the city name (if we want to use it) should be Hamsáfár. The alt-code for á is alt+160.
Of course we could also be very sarcastic towards RB, and name the Ishtmus city "Kia Hora Te Marino" which means "May peace be widespread" in Maori (another Tin song I love). Complex name, and possibly too long, but I find the irony of that to be quite funny myself. I may just be weird though.
Of course we could also be very sarcastic towards RB, and name the Ishtmus city "Kia Hora Te Marino" which means "May peace be widespread" in Maori (another Tin song I love). Complex name, and possibly too long, but I find the irony of that to be quite funny myself. I may just be weird though.
Caledorn
Emperor
I have to admit that the unconventional harmoines are part of what really appeals to me with the song. I am very fond of the musical scales used in ancient Persian/Mesopotamian/Egyptian music, and Sukla-Krsne is leaning heavily on those scales.
2metraninja
Defender of Nabaxica
I've played in a modded game pitboss where we had Hungary, oh, man, you should see their names.
They have all the kind of accents letters and consonant heaps in their city names. But this actually doesnt means that you can use non-ascii symbols, as those were predefined too. But I believe that if you have a way to enter them, you can have them as Civ4 itself handles unicode well. What I know for sure is that if you use non-ascii symbols in the name of your player when logging in to a pitboss, it messes with it, but that is the Pitboss application itself and not Civ4.
Back on topic
The Sukla-Krsne text is great idea. So India, so Civ! I still think we must keep to shorter and easy to remember names. We as a team are those who will use them for communication the most, so if they are confusing/hard to remember it will affect us the most. Though I noticed someone proposed great idea some time back - that we change/rotate our city names each turn, so no one can do any effective espionage on us 
talonschild
Drive-By NESer
If we do that, I humbly suggest we use variations on the string "Enaillellion". Enailllellion, Enaillellian, Enaillellliun, etc.
2metraninja
Defender of Nabaxica
We can even have all our cities named seemingly one and the same name similar to Enaillellion. By using Cyrillic letters, which are all the same look-alike for e,a and o and adding few more of those, we can have permutation of many different names looking absolutely the same. Our enemies when seeing a list of absolutely the same city names will be like 
Remind me to do this at some point later in the game, even if for only few turns just for the fun of it
Bowsling
Deity
In CivIII, it was possible to name a city "Military Tradition" or "100 gold (per turn)", and it would be indistinguishable on the trade screen. I guess that's why they added the prefix "City of" in BtS.
Yes, Alt-whatever works with CivIV but not all Unicode characters are supported. I tested copy-pasteing some Japanese and Chinese characters to no avail.
That would be me.Though I noticed someone proposed great idea some time back - that we change/rotate our city names each turn, so no one can do any effective espionage on us
Not sure if your cyrillic letters idea works though as I don't know which characters are supported in the game. But just with right accent and left accent we can have loads of fun with a city name having many vovels such as Enaillellion, Énáílléllión, Ènáílléllíòn and so forth. With just the three options, without accent or left or rigth one, Enaillellion could be spelled in three to sixth power different ways. That makes it total of 729 combinations, which should be enough for our cities.BTW, Ham Safari? Is that a hunting trip where you are after boar?
2metraninja
Defender of Nabaxica
Sounds to me more like safari for pigs. Ham is made of pigs, right?
talonschild
Drive-By NESer
Hamsafar. Starts at 38:31
Link to video.
EDIT: Would someone tell me what I'm doing wrong in the embedding process?
Link to video.
EDIT: Would someone tell me what I'm doing wrong in the embedding process?
Well, boar is a sort of a pig. You are less likely to get into trouble if you go hunting for the wild version instead of hunting some farmer's pigs, though. This discussion reminds me of a dish we have here in Finland. It is called "Hunter's Cutlet" and it consists of a pig cutlet with a mushroom sauce. Very delicious, but I've always thought it hilarious that the poor hunter couldn't catch anything else but a pig.
2metraninja
Defender of Nabaxica
LOL, you are right, boar is the wild cousin of the domesticated pigs. I need some sleep...
SilentConfusion
Emperor
At first I thought you were going to say "I need some sheep..."
Caledorn
Emperor
What's our status with city naming? Where did Bono come from? Why can't I get U2 out of my head every time I read the State of the Empire report?
Now it is even worse for me, I will be thinking about the monkeys
But fortunately cities can be renamed. What about Abhi or Abheek? These are male names of Sanskrit origin, meaning "fearless", rather fitting.
Though I noticed someone proposed great idea some time back - that we change/rotate our city names each turn, so no one can do any effective espionage on us
Very nice idea, theoretically. I do hope we are not considering it seriously ;-) It also has a flaw, I think name of the cities will also change on the map, so somebody looking at both map and EP screen would quickly figured out what is going on.
