RESOLUTION: Can we use the proper name for Weis?

[Locutus]

Yeah, noticed that too. But outside Germany (or other German speaking countries), noone seems to know how to spell that name correctly, so I hardly think he'll be surprised...

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

the town is spelled Bad Aachen, and its spoken Öche

but Aquis Grana is still fine for me.

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

and another hardly interesting story:
my hometown, where i was born, is written Nordenham with only one m because when it became an official city in 1908 it was mainly used as a harbour to ship cattle to england, and the english companies never got that second m right. a lot of other towns and villages in that area are given names, that end on hamm (with 2 m!). ham is the word for a small artificial island, which were needed, before the area got ****s (sp?) to protect it from the sea. the only other hamm with only one is Hamburg (meaning castle on a hamm), and i guess its thats because it begins with ham instead off ending with it. hmmm.... should eat some ham now

[Gilgamensch]

Originally posted by Locutus

You've obviously never looked at Dutch city names We have cities with names that translate as Apples, Reds, Mountains

That's because people saw a bigger rock and thought of it as a mountain

(several even, and that in the flattest country in the world ), Weeds, Gross, Animals, Holes, Houses (how original is that? ), Real, Dongs, Borrowing, etc. I could go on for hours So White would be a very acceptable name over here

You have similiar 'naming' in German:

Talking about roses, bushes, X-furt's, x-castles and so on.

For animals: Locutus, you might have heard of Schweinfurt????? mixing animal and the furt, the reason, you can guess easily

[Martin Gühmann]

First we got the spelling right. Second if the spelling is wrong then we have to use the in game name, and looking up it in the Austrians city list in the APOL_civ_str.txt it is at position 14 and it is written Wels. So that means the Austrians have at least 14 cities minus 2.

Originally posted by Locutus
Well, the Roman Empire part could be significant, but you'd have to know the history of all of Austria(-Hungary) to be able to say how it compares to other cities. It seems to me that, considering that the Activision seems to have mainly (not exclusively) focused on cities that are in present-day Austria and not in the former Austrian Empire, it could be a good choice. But then again, I don't know too much about Austrian history, so I wouldn't know for sure. In that sense you're probably in a better position to judge that then me, being a neighbour and all...

I wouldn't call it fucussing on cities in present Austria, if I find a lot of cities like Praha, Pilsen, Brunn (actual not sure), Pressburg (Bratislava), Ostrau, Troppau under the 11 first cities on that list. Half of the 11 first cities does not belong to Austria, today.

Originally posted by Locutus
LOL, yeah, just found it myself. I don't know if it has any kind of historic importance (knowing the average Activision city list, probably not), but at least it exists (SE of Linz, on the river Traun)

Edit: okay, just found the history section - so the town does have at least some historic significance. Must be a fluke on Activision behalf

Now let's get it right with who made the city list. If you check the files of the original CTP1 and original CTP2 then you won't find any sign of the AUstrians as civ in it. IIRC then the Austrians came with Harlan's ModPack to CTP1.

-Martin

[Pedrunn]

This thread is senseless. My english version writes Wels in the city name as it should be and not Weis.

[Tamerlin]

Though the discussion about the "real world" city names is interesting we should not spend so much time and energy on city naming, they would be better used elsewhere in my own "two €-cents" opinion.

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

well i think the time most of us spend in this thread, else would only be spent spamming in threads, you shoudln't spam in

[HuangShang]

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[H Tower]

Originally posted by HuangShang
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