Of course (in case anyone didn't know) you can also rename enemy cities by using "examine city"...it's completely free for spies.

As for renaming cities, I usually don't probably for similar reasons. When I am plowing through AI cities, sometimes I like to go back and see how many of each civ I've taken. Usually what ends up happening is after my initial burst of cities, I capture 10x as many as i found and it all becomes a blur as to which ones were my acutal cities (habit of large map games).

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April Cantor: Sire, in order to expand further we must first gain favor of the King

SCG: darn, I've never really got the hang of that tribute thing, guess it will be a long time until i make prince

Much in the same way that the Roman city Eboracum became the Saxon city Eforwic, which eventually shortened down to York.

I *do not* rename cities. In fact, the only time I bother with anything other than standard management of conquered enemy cities is when said enemy has really p*ssed me off.

In that case, I do much more than rename captured cities. I decimate them. I bring in my military and plunder every single square of irrigation, farmland, roads, rails and mines. Then I proceed to starve the city down to level one. Then the pitiful survivors are converted into a "freebie" settler/engineer unit for use on my *own* cities. It doesn't happen often ... but when it does, more than one slave engineer can be found maxing my own cities' potential out.

Now that I think of it, I usually change St. Petersburg to St. Stevensburg in honor of myself.

So I use the following convention: every city name ends with a digit (0,1,2,3 -- the map number) followed by "c" if a coastal city, and maybe "L" for a land-locked-lake-coast city.

I suffix conquered cities to follow this convention early in the game; late in the game, I may be sitting pretty and no longer care to bother.

- toby

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It's a great city name for the goblins, or for several other swell-headed civs you could name.

- toby