Do you have a pet name for your capital?

[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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Dig trenches, with our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made. Here, run out and get some trenches.
-- Rufus T. Firefly, the original rush-builder

[Marko_Polo]

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.
[This message has been edited by DaveV (edited January 18, 2001).]

[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...