This is going to sound like a minor, trivial point to almost everyone, but I'm going to say it anyway.
Ever since Civ I, the third city on the Greek city list has been Thermopylae. As the third city, it always grows into a core metropolis when the AI is playing as the Greeks, which is really annoying. Thermopylae may have been one of the more famous battle of antiquity, but it was never a city. In classical times, it was a narrow mountain pass, and in modern times it is a stop on a highway with a plaque and a statue. This would be like the English having "Waterloo" or the Americans having "Antietam" as the names for their third cities. I know it's a small point, but, as this has nothing to do with game balance, I don't understand why they put this in every single game.
Ever since Civ I, the third city on the Greek city list has been Thermopylae. As the third city, it always grows into a core metropolis when the AI is playing as the Greeks, which is really annoying. Thermopylae may have been one of the more famous battle of antiquity, but it was never a city. In classical times, it was a narrow mountain pass, and in modern times it is a stop on a highway with a plaque and a statue. This would be like the English having "Waterloo" or the Americans having "Antietam" as the names for their third cities. I know it's a small point, but, as this has nothing to do with game balance, I don't understand why they put this in every single game.
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, one of the major cities (the 5th, actually), was Uskudar, which was actually ALWAYS a province of Constantinople during the initial 200 years of Turkish rule (it was more like a village/town), and as the settlement grew, the last 400 years, Uskudar was to Istanbul as, say, Brooklyn is to New York City today.
