Your Civ 4 idiosyncracies

[Bushface]

Cheese - now there's a thought. Next game I'll call my cities Stilton, Yarg, Livarot, Bucegi and so on until I'm down to Extra Mild Cheddar and Laughing Cow.

 

[sydhe]

How do you go about doing this? I would love to do the same thing!

I always find myself building Forts to store my troops in during wartime. There is no need for them, but its something I always do.

Alt-S allows you to put names on the landscape. For example, in one game, I had Vesuvius (after a catastrophic eruption), the Dire Straits, the Grand Tetons, the Mountains of Madness and Dizzy Bay.

 

[alvan]

When playing as the Romans I always rename a couple of experienced Praetorians Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus, and they always hang out together.

Awesome.

 

[Peng Qi]

When taking the Byzantine capital, it always gets renamed.

You should rename it 400 years after you capture it if you really want to be accurate.

 

[Scaramanga]

If I found a city in the tundra that is in a sub-optimal location but has some nice food resources so it'll grow big I sometimes call it "Turd Blossom".

Edit: Oh yeah, and my copper city gets named "Copperfield".

 

[Peng Qi]

Edit: Oh yeah, and my copper city gets named "Copperfield".

I have a friend who named cities based on resources or tiles they're near.

He had a pig and rice city he named Pigrain (pig + grain).
He had a cow and copper city on the coast that he named "Port Cowpolice." (Since a policeman is a "copper!" Still hurts my brain thinking about it.)
He had a city that had no less than 15 flood plain tiles (it was an awful city) that he called "Untervater." (Under water.)

 

[RedRalph]

"Untervater." (Under water.)

wouldnt that mean "under father", surely he meant Unterwasser?

 

[Peng Qi]

wouldnt that mean "under father", surely he meant Unterwasser?

No, he was deliberately just trying to type the way it would sound if you said it in English with an accent.

 

[Öjevind Lång]

Not so much gameplay approaches, but things you do and habits you have that are superficial and have no effect on how things develop. Some of mine:

If playing as America, the city that gets the National Park is renamed to Yellowstone.

When taking the Byzantine capital, it always gets renamed.

When playing as the English, I never use Oxford as a city name, as it bugs me that Oxford University is already built more often than not by that time.

If I play as the English, I often rename the third city Canterbury since Nottingham is not such an important city.

If I vanquish a hated enemy (Isabella, for example) I often rename my enemy's capital Victoria or Nikopolis or Triumph or something like that.

If a found a city latish and it is on or near valuable resoruces, I might call it something like Goldsborough or Walvis Bay or Eisenstadt to refresh my memory when I see the city on the city display or get news about it.

 

[Supr49er]

When playing as the Romans I always rename a couple of experienced Praetorians Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus, and they always hang out together.

Now that Lucius Vorenus is the "Journeyman" maybe you could rename your scout to Lucius Vorenus.

 

[thelibra]

1.) City Naming - I name my cities based upon Resources, Water, and Hills, that way I have a quick reference to tell me what each city has to offer and it's strategic position. Examples:

* a city on a hill with sheep in its FC would be called "Shepherd Rock".
* a city on a coast with pork and iron in its FC would be called "Pigiron Port"
* a city on a river near mountains with stone and horse would be called "Stonehorse Falls"
etc...

2.) I always try to found a religion, even if it's late in the game (like Christianity or Islam). I just can't stand the thought of someone else getting all that gold and stuff.

3.) I tend to stop waging new wars by the 0BC/AD mark.

4.) I usually forget to switch my civics until I've wasted several turns.

 

[Draknith]

I will usually name all of my pret groups 1st Legion, 2nd Legion, etc, until macemen come around.

My city names will always start out Huber, Dankis, Draknith, Rhone, and my southern port city's always Southport.

Also, when my units get up to the 20 exp mark I make them a captain, and 'if they level up past that I make them a general (while waiting to make them a great general.)

 

[JFLNYC]

No wonder it takes some of you guys a long time to play a game. You're busy naming everything in sight!

 

[Dagta]

No, he was deliberately just trying to type the way it would sound if you said it in English with an accent.

He really meant to type, "New Orleans"

 

[Arlborn]

In a game, I decided to find a list of Brazilian cities with weird names, and renamed all my cities to it(I was Portuguese)!


Like "Varre Sai" = "clean and go out"

Almoco = "lunch"

Veado Velho = "old deer(used also as a bad word for homosexual in Brazil)"

Passa e Fica = "pass by and stay(?)"

Salao = "Salon"

Não Me Toque = "Don't touch me"

Ilha do Rato = "Rat's Isle"


And so many others that I forgot right now!

It is just so many cities that you gotta be creative! I bet it is like that in other big countries as well hehe.

 

[Zongo]

When playing the Holy Roman Empire (often, with Darius or Hannibal as leader), I MUST rename it Hapsburg Empire (the short being Austria and the adjective Austrian). The cities, of course, must be Vienna, Prague, Budapest. The ruler's name fluctuates betweeen Karl and Joseph. If not for the male avatar, I'd go for Maria Therese too.

The first Landsknecht will always be "K. u. K. Armee".

Good relations with Spain (if she has the same religion, of course, otherwise vassalisation) and immediate repatriation of the Netherlands on sight.

If Paris or Istanbul show up on the map, they are my long run enemies.


On a general note, my great people farm always goes for scientists and spies and will eventually be renamed "Evil Farm" (if you saw "Austin Powers, the spy who shagged me", then you know).


P.S.
This thread was so tasty that it digged me out of the Lurker Underground. Cool forum. Cool game. Cool people. Hi all!

 

[Rule Brittania]

Same.

And depending on their promotions they get named differently,

I name them by real ships, such as HMS Belfast, HMS Ark Royal etc

 

[Muslim]

I'll make sure my speakers are on when I'm about to discover Mathematics...I like hearing Spock use the word "behooves." It's a fun word...

but that word doesnt even exist

 

[agentsmith952]

I'm a wonder hog, and I like concentrating them in a few cities. But, I always like separating them, having a "marble wonder" city and a "stone/other" city. I like how concentrating the marble wonders makes a very classical greek looking city.

I just don't like having a bunch of pretty marble buildings in a city with the Shwedagon Paya sitting next to them. It just looks too funny.

 

[Arlborn]

P.S.
This thread was so tasty that it digged me out of the Lurker Underground. Cool forum. Cool game. Cool people. Hi all!

Welcome and congratulations on your first post!