Randomized City Names 2025-02-20

[pokiehl]

Randomized City Names randomizes the order of city names for each civilization.

With this mod, city names are drawn from the entire pool of a civilization's city list (instead of only the next 10 available, as in the base game). Now you will have more variety and see new city names in your games!

Does not affect the capital.

Does not cause you to found city names that are not part of your civilization.

Download here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/randomized-city-names.31933/

Installation: Extract the contents of the zip file to your "(user)\AppData\Local\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization VII\Mods" folder.

 

[Riconatic]

Out of interest: How does it work in base game exactly then?

 

[pokiehl]

Out of interest: How does it work in base game exactly then?

City names are ordered 1 (capital) through ~30 to 40 or so. Civs have different numbers of cities.

In the base game, every city after the capital will be randomly selected from the following 10 in sequential order. In Civ 6, this random function was weighted so that earlier numbers were more likely than later numbers within that block of 10. I suspect it’s also weighted in Civ 7 similarly but can’t confirm.

This mod makes it select from all of a civ’s city list rather than blocks of 10.

 

[Piranga]

I didn't play Civ 6 without this mod. Will be an always On mod for me again.

 

[Giskler]

I tried playing with it today and got this.

 

[pokiehl]

pokiehl updated Randomized City Names with a new update entry:

Minor update

Update to compensate for a bug in the base game that assigns Spain more cities than are actually named.

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[pokiehl]

I tried playing with it today and got this.

You just discovered a game bug!

I looked into this, and saw that Spain has 35 cities assigned to it, but only 30 are actually given a name. Hopefully Firaxis will fix that in a future update.

On my end, I just posted an update to the mod to account for this bug.

1. I deleted those unused city names from Spain's list, so they shouldn't pop up again
2. I added localization text to them anyway because I wanted to try to preserve your game save. I'm hoping that if you update the mod and re-load your save that you'll see a proper city name instead of that LOC string.

 

[Giskler]

You just discovered a game bug!

I looked into this, and saw that Spain has 35 cities assigned to it, but only 30 are actually given a name. Hopefully Firaxis will fix that in a future update.

On my end, I just posted an update to the mod to account for this bug.

1. I deleted those unused city names from Spain's list, so they shouldn't pop up again
2. I added localization text to them anyway because I wanted to try to preserve your game save. I'm hoping that if you update the mod and re-load your save that you'll see a proper city name instead of that LOC string.

Oh, I razed that abomination to the ground ages ago. Appreciate the update though

 

[WarlockEngineer]

It it possible to randomize the capital name too?