City Name Inspirations

[ShadowPresident]

My apologies for the dbl thread. The post got hung up on "waiting for Apolyton.net..." or something like that, so I stopped and reloaded and that musta dbl posted it. Sorry :-(

[Paddy]

When playing Huge games, I like to name each provincial capital Castle...., then have the cities in that area have a reference to that Castle name.

Then as the Empire grows, through settling in far flung places, or just taking control of great locations, I like to put the word OutPost in the title.

With these two processes I can easily track a city down when I get quick reports that something happened there...



Oh, and in PBEM games I like to disturb the minds of the other players

even if the only disturbed mind in the game is mine

[Iron Jackson]

Originally posted by Paddy the Scot

Oh, and in PBEM games I like to disturb the minds of the other players

even if the only disturbed mind in the game is mine

Good to know that.

Well, usually I stick with the default names (playing a lot Sumeria at the moment). The one civ I change the city names are the Germans, because due to the fact that I'm living here makes it easy to find more than the default names.

[Paddy]

Is that Right Herr Jackson...?

I would lke to introduce the Governor of my estates

[Akenaten]

Originally posted by eris

The one I enjoyed best was based on negatives. The capital was "nowhere", then "not here", "not there", moving to things like "nope", "nada", "nyet" and ending up with things like "somewhere else", "over there", and other such constructions. The kiddo thought I was crazy. I had also renamed myself and my tribe so that I was "nobody" of the tribe "nothing". What was really enjoyable was the various text messages in dialogue boxes. "The pyramids were built in somewhere else." "The people in nowhere are happy" "Greetings, nobody of the nothing!" and on and on."

Then again, I am notoriously easily amused.

Sort of related: has anyone else founded enough Ottoman cities to get down the list to where the game suggests "Not Constantinople"? Makes a good counterpoint to the capital, "Istanbul."

[joncha]

hehe... haven't found that one yet!

[Mace]

Originally posted by Akenaten
Sort of related: has anyone else founded enough Ottoman cities to get down the list to where the game suggests "Not Constantinople"? Makes a good counterpoint to the capital, "Istanbul."

Actually I believe that may be a reference to the song,
"Istanbul, Not Constantinople" by the band They Might Be Giants...

[Kuciwalker]

It is.

The Aztecs have a city called Mingapulco, too, and the Scandinavians IIRC have one called Thunderfall (a CFC mod).

[joncha]

Originally posted by Mace


Actually I believe that may be a reference to the song,
"Istanbul, Not Constantinople" by the band They Might Be Giants...

The They Might Be Giants version is a cover... the song is much older than that (hence the '50s feel to it). Good cover though.

jon.

[Johann Moritz]

Originally posted by bongo
We also renamed ALL cities in the 'F11' screen when one of the players had a birthday. I think he liked that

Sure I did.

Hey, who hasn't ever named his cities like Star Wars planets?

I once named them like historical PC games series. The capital was Civilization, of course.

[Jethro83]

Typically, I won't bother deviating on the default city list. But once it gets to "New..." whatever, I'll look up the country best representing the civ I'm playing, and use names of cities not in the list. Then I'll use the names of historical figures of that people.

If I conquer enemy cities, I may decide to keep their existing names, or change the name into a similar-sounding name that sounds more like the language of my own civ (especially if I'm using the Japanese).

If I relocate my capital, or set up my Forbidden Palace in the city, I'll usually rename the city to something far more appealing to reflect its new status (if it its name isn't appealing enough already).

Occasionally I might grab names of cities from other games or the names of certain characters from other games I find myself to like enough, or if the city is a conquered backwater of a hated enemy, I might use the name of a character I hate instead.

[Paddy]

I once got all narky with a opposition country that kept on going to war with me. So when we rolled into his country, the cities that were not smashed to shreds, all became "Concentration Camps"

[Smellincoffee]

Usually I name my cities-- if I give them custom names-- after the land they're on. A city near a plains cow was called "Kansas City". One near a horse was "Mustang". A city on a one-tiled island was 'Havana". Cities in tundra were named "Fort (wintery name hre)"
Usually, I go for the names of fictional cities in books and those I've made in SC3K/SC3KU.

[:) Smiley]

If you are playing the Greeks, you will notice that the last of the default city names is none other than Apolyton.

[Mr. President]

Most of the good names are already used.

I like non-real names that are descriptive in some way, eg. Green Mountain, Point Disaster.

There are very few names from fiction that I am willing to use as city names. A few that make the cut are: Mysidia, Lumengrid, Sandrakkan, and Kyralia.