What do you will happen with the city naming in the new xp?

spicytimothy · May 18, 2003, 10:39

of coz we don't know wht the other 6 civs are, but thinking about Sumer, I really don't know wht's gonna happen, especially when the Persians and the Babylonians are already in the game from the same region from different time periods... cities like Ur, Uruk, Lagash was around for a long long while, spanning from the Summerians and Babylonians to Assyrians and Persians if i'm not mistaken... n e guesses??

my guess is that it might b the case of New York for England and the US... whoever reaches it first... it'd b quite interesting to observe...

WarpStorm · May 18, 2003, 10:42

It may be that since this XP will be targeted for scenario play, the scenarios will have custom city lists.

cookieman · May 18, 2003, 12:09

im guessing that they will have to focus on less populated cities almost villages if you will and evenly distribute the larger cities to the civ who had the biggest impact on it

Quasar1011 · May 18, 2003, 14:09

An alternate possibility: same city, different name. E.g. : Wien/Vienna, or Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul. Plenty of examples, really, but I don't know much about the Sumerians.

Azeem · May 18, 2003, 14:26

Going to be a bunch of cities with the same name.

Wonder how they're going to manage having the Babylonians and the Sumerians at the same time on the same map?

bobbo008 · May 18, 2003, 15:42

Yes, Rome has Byzantium and Ottomans have Istanbul. same city. Rome also has Jerusalem, so that'll will be another issue if the Hebrews are a civilization. I'm not sure on this, but I know Germany has Koenigsberg, and Russia may have Kaliningrad (same city).

The Templar · May 18, 2003, 17:21

IIRC, the Babylonian empire was just Babylon plus all the other cities thay snached up in the region. With Sumer being in the game, the Babylonians really will be reduced to names of lots of minor villages!

ALPHA WOLF 64 · May 18, 2003, 19:46

I wouldnt mind seeing the actual city names, not the English versions. Otherwise, first come, first named.

bobbo008 · May 18, 2003, 21:40

yes, Men-nefer will always be Men-nefer. i am frankly apaulled that the an Egyptian capital shares the name with the capital of country music.

...i miss Pharoah...

Louis XXIV · May 18, 2003, 22:30

I meant to post this here

http://www.jameswbell.com/geog004sumeriancities.html

Spiffor · May 18, 2003, 23:25

Good link Louis.

It's interesting to see there are quite a few cities that don't belong to the Babylonian city list here. However, there aren't enough to make a complete city list that will avoid too many redundancies, à la New Adab.

Did you find other sources by any chance ?

The Templar · May 19, 2003, 00:42

Quote:

Originally posted by bobbo008
yes, Men-nefer will always be Men-nefer. i am frankly apaulled that the an Egyptian capital shares the name with the capital of country music.

...i miss Pharoah...

How do you get 'Nashville' out of 'Men-nefer' (I am embarassed by the fact that I knew that but I did drive through Nashville once ...)

Besides, Memphis has a big glass pyramid - that's kind of Egyptian right?

Chemical Ollie · May 19, 2003, 18:07

I quite often take the time to rename my cities anyway. Either after terrain features in the current game or parodic names from the current tribe I'm playing: Gold Fish, Deer Lake, Crappy Mountains... or Mugabeville (Zulu), Junk Food (Americans) etc...

bobbo008 · May 19, 2003, 20:55

crap, was it nashville that was the music capital of the world? screw kentucky, drove through there and never wanna go back.

fine, i'm ashamed that the once administrative center of Egypt shares its name with the administrative center of kentucky. (now if i'm wrong again, i've really made an ass out of myself).

"Mugabeville"

haha, nice.