Planning the Start

[Elear]

That's a good question.

I'd go for most anything, but if I had an opinion, it'd be to totally make them up as we please.

 

[dutchfire]

Well, as we'll probably have a lot of cities as this is civIII, a naming scheme could be good.

 

[Elear]

Yes, but it's just as easy to make them up. Plus, it gets citizens involved.

Example:

As I play my single player games, rather than use the 'New' names once I've run out, I just start with A and make up random stuff that sounds decent.

-Aebinal
-Aureon
-Aishaa
-Aeburn
-Blagorn
-Birir
-Cethra
-Cenorik

In that manner

Or we can do a naming scheme

-Elear

 

[greekguy]

What will our capital be named? Will we have some theme for our town names?

maybe a poll can be done to name our capital, but for the rest of our cities, i would like to use MIA's system, which i thought was very efficient and fair. let each citizen of our team name a city themselves, going in order of when they joined the team. when all team members have named a city, we go down the list again. this way everyone gets input into city names.

 

[Cyc]

Both ideas sound good to me, greekguy. Your suggestions have been tested and used for tens of thousands of years (see Civ3 DGs). They encourage participation and bring a sense of, I dunno, not ownership, but inclusion.

I'll think of the right word after I sign off.

 

[Elear]

Community?

But I agree, MIA's system sounds good to me.