What do you name your cities?

[Venger]

Usually, I play as the Romans, but change the capital from Rome to Avernath. Then I let the city names continue and use the default ones until they get exhausted, and I'll start using from my list - Dengeris, Herapta, etc...

Venger

[Signa]

I always call my capital "Utopia" and then I go as follows...

Alphapolis
Bravopolis
Charliepolis
Deltapolis
Echopolis
Foxtrotpolis
Golfpolis
Hotelpolis
Indiapolis
Julietpolis
Kilopolis
Limapolis
Mikepolis
Novemberpolis
Oscarpolis
Papapolis
Quebecpolis
Romeopolis
Sierrapolis
Tangopolis
Uniformpolis
Victorpolis
Whiskypolis
X-raypolis
Yankeepolis
Zulupolis

That give me 27 so then I continue on...

New Alphapolis
New Bravopolis
New Charliepolis
New Deltapolis
New Echopolis
New Foxtrotpolis
New Golfpolis
New Hotelpolis
New Indiapolis
New Julietpolis
New Kilopolis
New Limapolis
New Mikepolis
New Novemberpolis
New Oscarpolis
New Papapolis
New Quebecpolis
New Romeopolis
New Sierrapolis
New Tangopolis
New Uniformpolis
New Victorpolis
New Whiskypolis
New X-raypolis
New Yankeepolis
New Zulupolis

And then I use the real city lists.

[tishco]

i am playing the giga europe map, as the poles, and had the luck of being in england, so instead of london i have londinium, and county names, and town names the brittish dont know, and cardiff, when i reach ireland i will name them, one will be cork, etc.
i even have my own village on it!
unfortunatly the ai tech trading and long turns in ancient age has made me give up, i am a civ rookie, and just moved up to warlord, install patch to 1.18 then the ai trades in europe to medieval when i just got boats

[nationalist]

I keep the default names, but try to make them as geographically accurate as possible. I usually play as the Germans, so when I have exhausted the list of names, I use some Austrian cities ( Vienna, Innsbruck, etc.) and grap an Atlas to find German cities not included in the default list. I'll never run out of names, because there are hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in Germany and Austria. and adds to the realism. This approach wouldn't work as well if you use an ancient civ, but should give every modern civ an inexhaustable number of city names

[planetfall]

Lousy cities names but easy to find

Things I hate about civ3 cities:
1. cities are hard to find, there is no x,y reference in main map and mini map. In the F1 screen you can select a city name and the mini map will show you where the city is. BUT you cannot select a city in the mini map and have the same city selected in the city table.
2. In zoom out hard to tell if city is a port city or not.
3. Takes awhile to locate the cities with luxury or strategic resources.
4. Hard to tell how many cities your civ has.

Thus my naming convention:

[##].{P}[resource{#}]{whatever comes to mind}


Name convention key:
## == number of city in build order
. == separate to make number easier to find, as I use the number and then look for the city number in zoom out mode
P == port city {whether built port or not, has potential of building port. {I use ships a lot}
resource == luxury or strategic resource within city boundaries
# == number of resources
whatever == usually not much room left, so tend to use compass readings and bay, plain, grass, 2 mountains


Examples
1.Rome
2.PSRome
3.PIncense2NRome


16.GrassEBerlin
17.PIvory2SBay
18.PIsland1NoFrance

9.OilCoalMts2Wahoo


Like I said, lousy sounding names but naming convention makes it easy to find cities and key resources in zoom out view. The number in front is always unique. Only problem with this is sometimes city sort in F1 screen is by alpha listing instead of numeric listing,i.2., instead of getting


1.Rome
2.PSRome
3.PIncense2NRome
16.GrassEBerlin
17.PIvory2SBay
18.PIsland1NoFrance

You get
1.Rome
16.GrassEBerlin
17.PIvory2SBay
18.PIsland1NoFrance
2.PSRome
3.PIncense2NRome


If you like this idea let me know. I like it because it allows me to

• count cities
  
• quickly find resources I need to protect
  
• see where I can have shipyards
  
• quickly find cities
  

[Master Marcus]

Signa, I like that Quebecpolis...

I usually name the first 10-12 cities with Greek letters : Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Lambda, Zeta, Epsilon, Upsilon, Omega, Delta ( in no particular order except Alpha which is my capital ), and so on...thereafter some star systems or planets names like Mars 1, Mars 2, etc... Beta Phoenicis, Zeta Reticuli, Sirius 1, Sirius 2,..., Centauri, and finally I accept some civ default great names.

[dunk]

I name my cities after myself.

Timtown is always my capital.

Then I use my last name, my girlfriend's name, then Pittsburgh (my hometown which isn't in the default American city list ), then I start using cities from Ultima (Britain, Trinsic, Moonglow, etc.).

I almost always have a city named East Jabib, Springfield (where Homer Simpson lives), Bedrock, Alberquerque (so Bugs Bunny can miss that left turn), Philadelphia (where I live now, usually the Americans steal this one), HamburgER and FrankfurtER (I add the -ER cuz those foods are yummy... but only if I'm the Germans).

I like the resource naming. Sire, the city of Ironcow is in revolt. I think I will begin doing that too.

[planetfall]

It is a good humor break to see messages like:

"Cattle2Horse needs an aquaduct"
-- now, let's quickly wash that mutant along to the next civ

"IronGame needs sanitation"
-- yeh, iron plugged game, phew

"Incense2 is in revolt"
-- duh, let them suffer!! They are just living up to their name.


On the idea of Gk letters, if going to use, why not double your learning, put them in order so learn greek alphabet while playing:
alpha, beta, gamma, delta, eta...omega.
{You can find the list in any good dictionary}.

Interesting idea of learning the periodic table while naming cities. Huh, might go into editor and change list of other civs cities. But don't know if other civs cities come from the list in item order, in alpha order or random. Aztec city of Helium just revolted, do you want to install a new governor or raise the city?

Way interesting. Editing other civs cities names to list of things you want to memorize:

balance list
exercise
diet
SocialOutlet
family
spiritual
finances
PersonalGrowth
. . .


"You just conquered Diet, you want to install a new governor?"

class list
history
literature
programming
SBC142
...

"You just conquered history..."


Current Project List
Taxes
CleanGarage
PaintKitchen
PlantGarden
InstallStereo
. . .

"You just conquered Taxes..."


Going to have to think about this some more. Thanks for the idea of naming other civ's cities. Could be a useful memory tool for month long Reminder Lists.