Do you have a pet name for your capital?

[Chris 62]

Do you rename your capital and other cities or do you use the default names? I sometimes do. My fav is Freedonia (with appollogies to rufustfirefly,I saw ducksoup too!).

[niteowl]

Not on Civ2 but I sometimes do on SMAC, especially playing the Spartans. (i.e. my capitol is Headquarters and all my other bases are Bunker ### in sequence.

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[Exile]

There was this old 70s era board wargame called "Strategy I." It was the original generic wargame. Strat I had rules covering every period of warfare, but used one counter mix. It had roughly 25 countries on the map, each w/its own name. The designers used a mnemonic device. The first nation was called Aesgaard. Next was Bjarnheim. Next was Chessex. After that was Drammikos. Then Etracia, Fanticca, Gastonny, Hombierge, Ispanos, Jaegerstadt, etc.

It goes all the way to X'Chow. I name all my cities this way. If there are more than 25, I start over with the mnemonic but make up new names. Athania, Boraxia . . .

Salutations,
Exile

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[Deathwalker]

I like renaming my capital "Empire City" after tank police.

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[finbar]

Finbarville. I can't imagine why.

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[Albert B]

I don't usually rename my capital but I do rename other cities. I usually play as the Americans and rename cities I don't care for to other ones. For example, Atlanta usually becomes Clarksville, which is the town I grew up in and then I pick another one to change to Indianapolis, the city I live in now. I will also usually rename a town after my daughter and my wife. (isn't that sweet of me?)

[Lefty Scaevola]

I sometimes rename captured cities with insults to their former owner.

[Basileus of the Romans]

I normalyy start renaming cities when they get into the "general" category for cites after you build your fist 30 or so (Hamburg, Capua, Pisa, etc). They normally get named "New (whatever city)" or "(name of ruler)-oplois". Examples would be, "New Constantinople", "New Trebizond", "Basilopolis", etc.

[Carolus Rex]

I often rename my cities, not just the capitol.

Sometimes depending on my ruler name. If I call myself Jerry Springer I use names like Weird Guests, Guards on Stage, Springerville and so on. If I play as the Apolytoners the city names are Double Login, Apolyton City, Spam City, Post Thread and the like.

Sometimes I tweak the original names a little to make them funnier, especially if I play as the Sioux. Stone Lake becomes Ricky Lake, Kill Bear is changed to Killer Beer, Wounded Knee to Wounded Elbow, Slim Buttes becomes Slim Butt etc.

Sometimes I follow a theme like all the cities must have the word Hut in them. Goody Hut, Pizza Hut, Another Hut etc.

In MP I always rename cities far from my empire's heart after the other civs' city names. So if I play against the Romans and get an advanced tribe far away from home I rename it Cumae or something. That way, the opponent can't use the "locate city"-trick.

Carolus

[Smokey tha nuke man]

usualy, i let my cat walk across the keyboard and that's my city name. if my cat's shedding, i'll start naming cities based on my mood. for instance, at one point, my cities were starting to revolt alot, so i named my next three cities "lost retards", "gaylords" and "butthumps".

[Smokey tha nuke man]

dude, i'm a warlord now! cool

[Wiglaf]

Congrats, Smokey

New names for cities, hmm. I do what Lefty does sometimes, when I take cities I'll write some pretty rude stuff to the previous owner

[jcarkey]

I usually don't. But sometimes I might just decide to go A, B, C, etc. If then I double over I go A-2, B-2, C-2, etc.

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[War4ever]

I rename cities all the time. Conquered cities have new names to razz the old ruler.

I have been known to pull the dip trick and rename a city (grabbed this gem from apolyton) "next"

Border cities i name like "keep Ming out" or "Ferret Search" etc.....


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[popcornvendor]

i like to name my cities after my friends. like Chrisville or BrandonCity

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

I wish I could say I was really inventive, but I'm not. I just play SP, so I don't have to worry about having to deceive my opponents with city names!

I use the default names usually and once I hit the generalized names, I try to select new ones to make it easier to keep track of where my cities are on the large or giga-map. For example, if I have a bunch of colonies on an island, I'll give them names of Australian cities as a memory aid. Or Canadian cities for local colour

If I'm playing ToT with the extended game, all cities on Centaurus start with "New". In the Fantasy game, my cities underground, underwater and in the sky are prefaced with under-, aqua-, and over-. Again, just a memory aid.

STYOM

[Rufus T. Firefly]

When I play as the Americans, I like to cluster my cities by region, so that Eastern cities like New York, Washington, Boston, Philly, and Baltimore are all near each other, as are Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinatti, and the midwestern cities; Seattle, San Francisco, and the West Coast Cities, etc. It's a nice memory aid.

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When I'm having so many cities it's becoming hard to remember where they are in a large map, I pick a central city and rename the nearby cities by the compass points, for example Helsinki, Helsinki N, Helsinki S, Helsinki NW, Helsinki W and so on

[DaveV]

I rarely bother with renaming my cities. The big exception is late in the game when I'm selecting a particular city all the time as a target for goto (example: a port city on an isolated continent). Then I'll rename that city to a unique starting letter (e.g. X) so it's the first city called up for that letter. Then I can just type gx to send units to that city.
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[The Mad Monk]

I actually erased the city namelist for one of the cultures (the Americans, which had been permanently altered to the Lendorans), because I always played them and never used the suggested name, anyway...this often led to 3-4 cities with no name by the late game, due to late-night playing...

[Chris 62]

quote: Originally posted by The Mad Monk on 01-20-2001 01:26 PM been permanently altered to the Lendorans

Who are the Lendorans?

[Anodyne]

Sometimes I change the names to "correct" names (I never remember to edit the city.txt), like Rome to Roma, Athens to Athenai, etc... Yeah, I know I'm a nerd
Anyway, I like playing Babylonians, and usually I rename Babylon as "Bab-ili", "Babilu", "Babalon", or "Babel" to sound more 'cool'. Babel is my favourite, as it comes from the bible and was often referred as an evil place
And when I run out of city names, I start renaming them with newer cities, which I know that have been built by the civ I'm playing, or making up a name in the civ's language, or making a name that's almost like the old one, like having all the possible names for Babylon in the same game.

[Anodyne]

...and sometimes I name cities after mythologies. For example, when playing with Vikings, I might name cities (after the original names have ended) as "Valhalla", "Odin", etc... or as "Erebus", "Nyx", "Dionysios" when playing Greeks, or "Jupiter", "Saturnus", "Bacchus" with Romans, etc...

[The Mad Monk]

quote: Who are the Lendorans?

Well...I used to be a big fan (read: obsessive player) of AD&D. The World of Greyhawk (an 'official' world) had a small island called Lendore Isle tucked away in a distant corner of the map; it was supposed to be a distant backwater of what passed for civilization.

I had several characters start on that island, some more succesful than others.

One of them managed to forge an empire...