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[Mr. Sulu]

So i'm playing a game as Denmark and I have founded a ton of cities, just about 50. So recently something weird has been happening. When I founded my 50-51st city I got Raiatea (A Polynesian city) and my next was Tenochtitlan (The Aztec capital). Anyone else experience this? The Polynesians were in the game; the Aztecs were not.

 

[Villager720]

Yep, its just a game play mechanic. There's only a set amount of city names per civ, so once you found more cities than it has available, it begins to steal them from other civs.

 

[Lose]

what diff do you play on to get 50 plus cities?

 

[GenjiKhan]

My first question is . How did you get it to found 50 cities? that's a new record in Civilization 5. I'm glad to see a screenshot,because many people have never found so many cities(like me).

 

[Lose]

yeah a screenshot and a description of your setup would be nice

 

[Villager720]

As a side note, Ive seen it cannibalize other civ cities' names long before 50.

 

[I_qua_I]

Does anyone know what would happen if ALL of the city names from ALL of the civs are exhausted and then another city is created?

 

[Mr. Sulu]

Actually, my settings are standard Earth, but it's a bit different than the regular one. I guess they changed the map in one of the patches but in this one the Mediterranean Sea is an open passageway and New Zealand is in one piece. It also seems a bit larger than the regular one, also I pretty much founded a city everywhere that had good resources. So, for example I have 11 cities in the South Pacific (Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia and other random islands), not counting Southeast Asia or Hawaii, and 3 cities in Central America, alone. Don't even ask how many cities I have in the America (I have 23, and that's not counting the 4 city-states. Als, I would love to post a pic but how do you take screenshots? Then maybe I can show you what I mean. Oh, and I was playing on settler (this was my "breaking-in" game for the Denmark civ, it just developed into something huge). Now I have about 60-65 cities counting the ones I conquered.

 

[pazmacats]

You can DL extra names on steam.

 

[Villager720]

You can DL extra names on steam.

Go on.

 

[I_qua_I]

Go on.

I don't know why but this really gave me a great laugh.

 

[Karl_Rove]

Whatever happened to the older civ's method of starting the city name roster over with "New" in front of the name? New Tenochtitlan. New London ETC... IDK about 4, but I know that 3 had that.

I loved seeing things like New New Orleans.

 

[He-Who-Hunts]

You have roughly 65 cities on a standard sized map?

 

[CYZ]

Does anyone know what would happen if ALL of the city names from ALL of the civs are exhausted and then another city is created?

Does that even fit on a huge all-land map?

 

[code9]

How did you get so many cities? I tried once playing on a custom huge map with just one remote isolated civ and no barbs, i hardly got past 40. But maybe that's just because I tried building more vertical.

You can get a screenshot by pressing Print Screen in the game, and then Paste in photoshop.

 

[eric_]

in this one the Mediterranean Sea is an open passageway and New Zealand is in one piece.

Are you playing with low sea level?

 

[TPQ]

Does anyone know what would happen if ALL of the city names from ALL of the civs are exhausted and then another city is created?

I'd guess that probably isn't possible, but if it were I imagine the game would start from the beginning of the list again, or perhaps ask the player to name cities.

 

[Mods]

Yep, when that happens it's a good sign that your game is about to crash soon

 

[Mr. Sulu]

I'm not sure if I was playing with low sea level, but I don't remember doing any custom settings. All, I know is I only have this map because I used the "save map" option and saved it off my first two games.

 

[awesome]

Whatever happened to the older civ's method of starting the city name roster over with "New" in front of the name? New Tenochtitlan. New London ETC... IDK about 4, but I know that 3 had that.

I loved seeing things like New New Orleans.

4 goes to other lists and then i'm pretty sure it just has a blank space after that