Rhye
's and Fall creator
(Preview #1 here)
Shorter preview this time, only to show you how city names are managed, since you asked.
Obviously, there can't be names assigned to plot coordinates, but still it doesn't mean that we should rely on completely random names.
So, each civ will have 4 city names lists:
1- for non-coastal cities in the continent
2- for coastal cities in the continent
3- for non-coastal cities in another continent
4- for coastal cities in another continent
The capital is always at the top of 1 or 2.
This picture shows cities picked from lists 3 and 4:
Here are the Spanish lists, for example:
Now an announcement:
I'm looking for volunteers to help with these lists.
No programming skills are required, just accuracy (both historical and grammatical).
I've currently compiled only the Spanish and the English lists. If some of you help out with this stuff, I can spend my time on other aspects of RFC RAND and on the new patch of RFC itself.
EDIT: if you want to post lists directly here, you should try to follow these rules:
- 10 cities for each list are enough
- cities must be important, historically and possibly nowadays
- you should sort them considering founding date too. If you notice, I put Buenos Aires lower than Santo Domingo
- you can use random lists and RFC city maps for ispiration
- when a city could belong to more than one civ, we should decide which one should. Possibly the most representative: Marseille is better French than Roman. But there may be different situations.
- accents are important!!! Consider that with just a wrong accent, renaming system won't work. Use the character map for accents you haven't got on your keyboard
- as in RFC, names must be in native name: e.g. Korinthos, not Corinth
- when different romanizations are available, use the one used in RFC: e.g. Beijing, not Peking
- don't worry about leaving some lists empty (like Mayan 3 and 4). In that case, a name from the other lists is picked instead
Shorter preview this time, only to show you how city names are managed, since you asked.
Obviously, there can't be names assigned to plot coordinates, but still it doesn't mean that we should rely on completely random names.
So, each civ will have 4 city names lists:
1- for non-coastal cities in the continent
2- for coastal cities in the continent
3- for non-coastal cities in another continent
4- for coastal cities in another continent
The capital is always at the top of 1 or 2.
This picture shows cities picked from lists 3 and 4:
Here are the Spanish lists, for example:
Spoiler :
Now an announcement:
I'm looking for volunteers to help with these lists.
No programming skills are required, just accuracy (both historical and grammatical).
I've currently compiled only the Spanish and the English lists. If some of you help out with this stuff, I can spend my time on other aspects of RFC RAND and on the new patch of RFC itself.
EDIT: if you want to post lists directly here, you should try to follow these rules:
- 10 cities for each list are enough
- cities must be important, historically and possibly nowadays
- you should sort them considering founding date too. If you notice, I put Buenos Aires lower than Santo Domingo
- you can use random lists and RFC city maps for ispiration
- when a city could belong to more than one civ, we should decide which one should. Possibly the most representative: Marseille is better French than Roman. But there may be different situations.
- accents are important!!! Consider that with just a wrong accent, renaming system won't work. Use the character map for accents you haven't got on your keyboard
- as in RFC, names must be in native name: e.g. Korinthos, not Corinth
- when different romanizations are available, use the one used in RFC: e.g. Beijing, not Peking
- don't worry about leaving some lists empty (like Mayan 3 and 4). In that case, a name from the other lists is picked instead
