barbarian names

[Scouse Gits]

EST - normally the names are ?only? used when they come upon an undefended city and the message "The leader of the *** Barbarians agrres not to sack your city of *** for *** gold" appears.

I understand that pcv has actually renamed one of his civs 'Barbarian' in the rules.txt file - this leads to the barbarian names being used as cities ...



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[popcornvendor]

did i stumble on some sort of unknown information? anyways, if u rename a civ Barbarian then it automatically uses the barbarian city names.

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[DarkCloud]

hmm... never knew the Nazis were a barbarian tribe...

[popcornvendor]

gee, they kill 20 million people, conquer europe, and enslave millions. does that sound like a civilized group of people to u?

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[Action]

They are barbarians in this sense: "A fierce, brutal, or cruel person"
but not in this sense:
"A member of a people considered by those of another nation or group to have a primitive civilization."

[weird god]

actually the name barbarians was used by the romans for the tribes to the north(east) of their empire. fraudian roman bastards!

[Bereta_Eder]

As I posted in another thread:

Actually, the term «barbarian» didn;t have the meaning it has acquired in the modern days.
In Ancient Greece everyone who didn't speak greek was a barbarian and that didn;t mean he was a uncivilized.

Because greek was so widely used, the greeks who heard other languages and could not understand them labeled those people «barbarians» (or varvarians) because they made sounds (that sounded like) var var var True!
Nothing to do with the later meaning

[popcornvendor]

cool, try it. i didnt know it would change the names, i just thought Barbarians sounded cooler then Zulu. Oh well, many great things have been discovered on accident.

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[Caesar the Glutton]

I've never heard of those cities appearing if you change your tribe name to Barbarian. I'm gonna try it now.