Expanded city, leader lists for PTW - Page 2

Azeem · January 28, 2003, 01:00

Here's a city list for China:

Xi An (the FIRST capital of a unified China)
Anyang
Louyang
Kaifeng
Hangzhou
Nanjing (I normally put this in the south since "Nanjing" means "South Capital")
Guangzhou
Suzhou
Wuxi
Guilin
Shanghai
Chongqing
Datong
Wuhan
Zhengzhou
Langzhou
Beijing (Beijing wasn't the capital until the Yuan Dynasty)
Xiangfan
Ningbo
Shexian
Tianjin
Fuzhou
Lanzhou
Liuzhou
Kunming
Changsha
Nanchang
Dalian
Anyi
Handan
Nantong
Shenyang
Anshan
Guiyang
Taiyuan
Haikou
Hefei
Jinan
Dali
Xiamen
Yantai
Chengdu
Chang'an
Baotou
Xining
Shantou
Xiamen
Yichang
Zhanjiang
Shenzhen
Tonghua
Gejiu
Xianggang (Hong Kong)
Ao'men (Macau)

Underseer · January 31, 2003, 14:52

Cool! Not only do I now have much expanded city lists, but my Scandinavian list now includes all the correct "funny vowel" characters!

Thanks, guys! I hope we continue getting knowledgeable geographical additions to our lists.

Oh, gnome? I wondered how the heck New Port Richie made it to that list until I came back and looked at your posts.

Mad Bomber · January 31, 2003, 15:45

Here is my city list for the United States:

Washington
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Atlanta
Chicago
Seattle
San Francisco
Miami
Houston
Buffalo
St. Louis
Detroit
New Orleans
Baltimore
Denver
Cincinnati
Dallas
Memphis
Los Angeles
Cleveland
Kansas City
San Diego
Richmond
Las Vegas
Phoenix
Albuquerque
Portland
Minneapolis
Pittsburgh
Oakland
Tampa Bay
Orlando
Tacoma
Santa Fe
Olympia
Hunt Valley
Springfield
Palo Alto
Spokane
Long Beach
Indianapolis
Concord
Saratoga
Bennington
Yorktown
Honolulu
Madison
Dayton
Reno
Charlotte
Jackson
Pittsburgh
Des Moines
Omaha
Fargo
Bismark
Boise
Tacoma
Sacramento
El Paso
San Antonio
Ft. Worth
Oklahoma City
Little Rock
Tulsa
Wichita
Sioux Falls
Colorado Springs
Phoenix
Gettysburg
Mobile
Baton Rouge
Tallahassee
Orlando
Charlotte
Pierre
St. Paul
Cheyenne
Santa Fe
Birmingham
Nashville
Louisville
Winston-Salem
Memphis
Tuscon
Oakland
Boulder
Cairo
Anchorage
Adak
Juneau

planetfall · January 31, 2003, 16:14

Quote:

Originally posted by Dimension
Purple:

There are 33 states with cities named Springfield, and I don't really see how any of them are that significant.

Springfield, Illinois = population of 115,000
Springfield, Massachusetts = population 165,000
Springfield, Missouri = population 150,000
Springfield, Ohio = population 75,000

Two questions:

1. Who is the American leader?

2. Where was he born?

==PF

planetfall · January 31, 2003, 16:26

I hate that the city names and leader lists are not standarized. It is especially the city names that I hate. If the game had some other way of telling how many cities each civ had, it would be ok to have a long list of city names.

Since there is no method other than counting, I propose a different naming convention.

A. City names begin with a 2 digit number
B. The 3rd character is an '_' character
C. The rest of the name not exceed 12 characters so on zoom out you don't have city names overlapping important info.
D. Each civ have 25 cities.

This way by quickly looking at the highest numbered city you can see how many cities each civ has currently.

Careful, if you put this in your .bix file, the next patch will wipe it out.
Therefore I have put the 400-500 city names into a spreadsheet. It is easy to write a formula to put the numbers and '_' into the front of the city name.

The hard part is deciding the best 25 city names for each civ. At least because of this thread we have some clues for Spain.

Leaders is another sorry state of affairs. Some civs only have a few and others have gobs. You would think there should be at least 10 good leaders for each civ. They would not all have to be military but should be a mix of military and non-military leaders. After all a general might not be the best leader to hurry the Internet.

My problem is I would rather play the game than edit the city names.

Other than Germany, which I have completed, are there any suggestions of the best 25 names to use for each civ?

Are there any suggestions of the best 10 leader's to use for each civ?

== PF

piratebrun · January 31, 2003, 16:41

If you mean the leader Abraham Lincoln, he was born near Hogdenville, Kentucky.

Also you didn't mention the MOST important Springfield in the US - the one where the Simpsons live! If you don't know by now, it is Springfield, Kentucky!

Underseer · January 31, 2003, 16:48

Hey! It's not "Tampa Bay," it's "Tampa!"

Grrr!

"Tampa Bay" is the name of the big, wet thing near the city, and (who knows why) part of the name of their football team. The name of the city is simply "Tampa." Change that list, buster!

Purple · February 1, 2003, 02:12

Quote:

Originally posted by planetfall
D. Each civ have 25 cities.

Why do you want so few? The unsaid motive for this thread is the need for more cities, so we don't have to see cities with recycled names (e.g., New Paris).

I do agree with your point that it should be easier to determine how many cities each civ has. At the very least the list of cities on the advisor screen should be numbered.

Mad Bomber · February 1, 2003, 02:13

Quote:

Originally posted by Underseer
Hey! It's not "Tampa Bay," it's "Tampa!"

Grrr!

"Tampa Bay" is the name of the big, wet thing near the city, and (who knows why) part of the name of their football team. The name of the city is simply "Tampa." Change that list, buster!

Lighten up, its my list, and I like "Tampa Bay" the way it is. If you don't like it then change it in your own list.

Underseer · February 1, 2003, 22:15

Quote:

Originally posted by Mad Bomber

Lighten up, its my list, and I like "Tampa Bay" the way it is. If you don't like it then change it in your own list.

Party pooper! This thread seems ideal for getting belligerent, uppity and ornery on the topic of geography. How often do you get the chance to do that? *sniff* I was just trying to get in the spirit of the thread you… you… spoilsport!

Azeem · February 1, 2003, 23:00

You know, it wouldn't make any sense if you had a city far from the sea with the name "Tampa Bay".

Ever had one of those situations in CivIII where you had cities that were historically costal stuck in the middle of the desert?

Mad Bomber · February 2, 2003, 01:35

Quote:

Originally posted by Underseer

Party pooper! This thread seems ideal for getting belligerent, uppity and ornery on the topic of geography. How often do you get the chance to do that? *sniff* I was just trying to get in the spirit of the thread you… you… spoilsport!

Oh, my fault! I had mistakenly thought the Idea of this thread was to provide an expanded list of city names for different civ's. I did not think this would be a flame thread. I hate to ruin good fun such as throwing insults and accusations around, not to mention going on a

for no damn reason

Quote:

You know, it wouldn't make any sense if you had a city far from the sea with the name "Tampa Bay".

No more so than when I put "Death Valley" in the list and I build it a site with 2 cows 3 wheat and a wine

Azeem · February 2, 2003, 12:04

Quote:

No more so than when I put "Death Valley" in the list and I build it a site with 2 cows 3 wheat and a wine

Wine, eh? Well, if you're the imaginative type, you could say that the citizens naming the city were too drunk from the wine to notice.

BTW, if you need more city names for the Chinese civ, check out my post on the second page.

Mad Bomber · February 2, 2003, 12:29

Azeem:

Yes, your list for China is quite good, but I will probably add these to the names after the default ones, even though many are different names for the same city. I am not looking to recreate history, just to have enough names in my registry that I don't suddenly run into the problem of coming up with a name in mid-game.

Also here is the US leader list:

Washington
Nathaniel Greene
Lafayette
Andrew Jackson
Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Grant
Sherman
Forrest
Sheridan
Farragut
David Dixon Porter
Roosevelt
Pershing
Patton
Nimitz
Halsey
LeMay
Clark
Abrams
Schwartzkopf
Powell
Horner

Underseer · February 2, 2003, 13:14

If I can be serious for a moment (yeah, I'm going out of character), is there a limit to how long names can be or how many names can be on a list? If so, what are those limits?

Is there any problem with using "nonstandard" (for Americans anyway) letters in names? (e.g. "ö"). I mention that only because all of the default names include no such special characters (e.g. "n" instead of "ñ").

Purple · February 2, 2003, 14:12

I don't know the answer to your first question, Underseer, but it would be easy to test by replacing the capital city of a civ with a long string, say ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ for starters, and see what displays in a new gamestart.

For your second question, it depends on the code page your local computer is using. I tried using one that displayed Cyrillic characters (I was playing Russia), but the Latin characters with diacritical marks did not display correctly. I believe the standard setup will display almost all the so-called special characters in the Latin set.

Alfonso · February 2, 2003, 14:29

Ñ ñ; Ç ç; €;

Centauri18 · February 2, 2003, 20:40

Shouldn't it be "Stonewall" Jackson, with "Stonewall" in quotes? It was a nickname, after all.

Mad Bomber · February 3, 2003, 00:48

Centari:

If you feel the need to put Stonewall in quotes, go for it it is your list after all, or you could use his Christian name; Thomas.

planetfall · February 3, 2003, 14:44

Quote:

Originally posted by Purple

Why do you want so few? The unsaid motive for this thread is the need for more cities, so we don't have to see cities with recycled names (e.g., New Paris).

I do agree with your point that it should be easier to determine how many cities each civ has. At the very least the list of cities on the advisor screen should be numbered.

Just so it is a easily multiplied number and some civs are hard to come up with 25 reasonable city names. new25_AAAA means you have 2x 25 or 50 cities. Aztec, Carth, Golths, Zulu examples of civs not easy to get names for.

Best would be an info screen from Firaxis telling us the number of cites each civ has, but without that use the numbering system to keep track of each civ's size easier.

== PF

planetfall · February 3, 2003, 17:28

Quote:

Originally posted by piratebrun
If you mean the leader Abraham Lincoln, he was born near Hogdenville, Kentucky.

Ok I stand corrected. Springfield was listed because that is where Lincoln lived when he was elected to the House. Trivia- his one and only house in Springfield, ILL, was purchased for $1,500.

== PF