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