New York: British or American?

[star mouse]

Accented letters in city names

What happens if accented letters are used in city names? Does the checking convert the letters to their unaccented equivalents before comparing?

Example: New Orleans and New Orléans - these should not be possible in the same game. (Possible French cities: Orléans, New Orléans; Possible American city: New Orleans)

Now imagine you owned both cities (because you're a rampaging warmonger). It's really going to be painful telling them apart.

[Fredric Drum]

Originally posted by Ribannah
There sure are a lot of them. The other half have native Amerind names, and the third half (mostly tiny villages) are named after their founder.

Not to forget the spanish names.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by Andreiguy
In the game, the Egyptians have a city called "This". I guess it would make sense in Arabic. I recently got a report of "This is not growing, your grace". I also despise how Firaxis couldn't make just about 10 more city names for each civilization. Have you ever heard of a Frankfurt 2?

Thank you and goodbye.

Currently playing the Egypt, and, inspired by the way that name works, I rapidly founded:

That
The Other One
Nobody
Everybody
Somebody

and...

The Idiot Over There (or was it Thar? -- darn length limitations!)

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by SwitchMoO
Nothing quite like Happy Valley Goose Bay in Newfoundland and Labrador. Also in that province, Dildo.

That's what's missing.... Dildo, Pennsylvania!

[Thrawn05]

Re: Accented letters in city names

Originally posted by star mouse
What happens if accented letters are used in city names? Does the checking convert the letters to their unaccented equivalents before comparing?

Example: New Orleans and New Orléans - these should not be possible in the same game. (Possible French cities: Orléans, New Orléans; Possible American city: New Orleans)

Now imagine you owned both cities (because you're a rampaging warmonger). It's really going to be painful telling them apart.

Accented letters are accepted. I already changed many of the Roman cities with the 'ae' in it to a 'æ'. So Cumae turns ***æ.

Damn you apolyton for your idiot censor!

[SomeOneElse]

some weird Maryland cities:
theres a Pasadena, MD
and a Bel Air, MD (when I was little I thought the Fresh Prince of Bel Air took place there)

and a Berlin, MD

[Andreiguy]

Currently playing the Egypt, and, inspired by the way that name works, I rapidly founded...

Haha.

LOL about the censor. Blanking out the names of ancient cities, this really needs to be addressed!

[Dis]

Dutch dammit

[The Pioneer]

A very weird name that once saw was Cuba in Missouri.

Also to add to my comment above I have to say that I forgot the biggest one of all: Philadelphia (City of Brotherly Love!!!) is of course Greek /the name of course not the city itself ) It was the first capital of the newly established republic of the Americas, which goes to prove my point that lots and lots of cities in the States bare Greek names!

I am just wondering: How come?!

[Andreiguy]

Thank you!!
I've been in an argument for a LONG time with a friend who claims Philadelphia is an Indian name. The "delphia" gives it away. It's Greek.

right again ...

[Panag]

Originally posted by Dissident
Dutch dammit

hi ,

, Amsterdam , Rotterdam , is that what you mean , ....

have a nice day

[The Pioneer]

Originally posted by Andreiguy
Thank you!!
I've been in an argument for a LONG time with a friend who claims Philadelphia is an Indian name. The "delphia" gives it away. It's Greek.

right again ...

Of course it's Greek. It means "Brotherly Love", everybody that lives around Philly knows that.

The name derives from two words:

Philia = Friendship
Adelphia = Brothers

As I said there are a lot of Greek named towns around!

[spicytimothy]

This is my most successful thread ever. I can't believe a simple observation can generate such discussions...

Anyways, I just like to see the way the names work... last time i played, the Americans are destroyed then reborn, and before the Americans get to New York, the Brits build a New York near the original American area... and the Americans skipped that name... haha

in my personalized games, i put Hong Kong for both England and China and at the same place (like the order of cities)... this is a good gauge for me to traack who's doing better.


and just wanna point out, a lot of ppl replying are talking about who owns what cities in the first place etc... what's the point?? Hollywood is famous for US, as are Los Angeles, and all the others... the only reason i asked about New York is because the way cities are named in the game. I hope they do something with the "Beijing 2" thingy... The only place where i've seen this type of naming is in O'Brien's novel "Going After Cacciato"... he names villages in Vietnam 2s and 3s...

spicytimothy

[Lucilla]

Originally posted by Ribannah
There sure are a lot of them. The other half have native Amerind names, and the third half (mostly tiny villages) are named after their founder.

How many halfs does America have?
Sorry, I just had to pick on that one. But apart from the maths your right, of course.

[SubLimey]

A few notes:
Both England and America have relatively major cities named Lincoln.
The original Philadelphia (or at least an ancient Philadelphia) seems to have been Roman even if the name is Greek. It is now known as Amman in Jordan.
In the great province of Ontario, we have a few oddities too- the city of Kitchener used to be Berlin, but was renamed during WW1 for the British general who invented the concentration camp (during the Boer War). In a similar vein, there is also a Swastika in Ontario. Not to mention Essex and Wyoming (there is also an Ontario in California). Personal favourites include Rutter, Dorking, and best of all Moonbeam.
One question - whats up with all the Lebanon's across the US? It seems like every state has at least one.