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Genghis Al
b.02-15-99
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posted June 12, 2000 01:38
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I am on the quest of collecting fun city names. Those of you who play lots of MP gimmie some good names you remeber.My fav so far is "Bag's End" I love that! Alex v4.6 |
Ming
b.02-15-99
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posted June 12, 2000 07:31
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My favorites are the ones that people are starting to use in MP games. When two settlers meet, and you get to lay your city down first, taking advantage of those whales or fishes...
"Screw You" or "Beat You" or "Ha Ha"
(Last time I used Ha Ha, somebody then built "Ho Ho, and "Heh Heh" right next to it)
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Genghis Al
b.02-15-99
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posted June 12, 2000 12:02
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 thats good stuff.People somtimes name cities for what they do, science city, Production city stuff like that. Although this is a terrible idea in multiplayer it shows how names can be used strategicly. Alex v4.6 |
Aurelius
b.02-15-99
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posted June 12, 2000 14:27
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I wonder if anyone ever named a city after Fenway park with the great wall....  |
cavebear
b.02-15-99
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posted June 12, 2000 14:47
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I have to admit that renaming a city Fenway Park, when it builds the Great Wall is inspired!However, for utter consistency to a theme, I would have to give the award to Vlad and the Vampires on Acid tribe. Some are generally ghoulish ("Bloody Nipple"); others are specific to their opponents (Owl's Death). I have to give credit to whomever plays as "Lord of the Ferrets" for using "Ferret" so often in city names. |
Sten Sture
b.02-15-99
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posted June 12, 2000 15:28
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My favorite is the old put the wonder in parenthesis after the city name city - so it shows up in the diplomacy screen as:Moscow (building Manhatten Project) |
vik
b.02-15-99
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posted June 12, 2000 17:09
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quote:
Originally posted by Sten Sture on 06-12-2000 03:28 PM
Moscow (building Manhatten Project)
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That is hilarious!
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CYBERAmazon
b.02-15-99
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posted June 12, 2000 17:32
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Originally posted by Genghis Al on 06-12-2000 12:02 PM
thats good stuff.People somtimes name cities for what they do, science city, Production city stuff like that. Although this is a terrible idea in multiplayer it shows how names can be used strategicly. Alex v4.6
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Genghis Al: **ROTFLMAO** That's like painting a big red bulls-eye on your city, especially in MP. Definitely not good in MP ... but if people out there actually do that, more power to ME!!!! Makes the job of tracking down key cities easier . Unless, of course, it's a misinformation function ... **paranoid laughter** CYBERAmazon |
Scouse Gits
b.02-15-99
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posted June 12, 2000 17:43
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Before spies come along - if you spend a diplomat investigating a city, you can rename the place after his findings - so you don't forget. For example: 3M/NCF is Three Musketeers and no coastal fortress!
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Genghis Al
b.02-15-99
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posted June 12, 2000 23:35
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This is all well and good, but I really want some names. Tell me more about this lord of the ferrets... |
KhanMan
b.02-15-99
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posted June 13, 2000 00:52
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Hmmm...my most recent trend in city-naming in mp has been to spell out Homer's "Iliad", word by word, in ancient Greek, but that seems to be bad luck, since I never got past Book I. In sp I used to play as the souix or aztec and name cities insulting parodies of the original names, but, sadly, they aren't printable... How about a new strategy for mp-play: use each city name to insult your opponent/opponent's tribe...then, as you lose, watch the city names slowly change, one by one... -KhanMan the lesserly-crazy Crazy Lesser Sayen |
Makeo
b.02-15-99
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posted June 13, 2000 05:55
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In one game I was trying to hide where my capital city was, so i renamed two of my cities as NONE(Capital). Then moved my capital to one of those cities. |
East Street Trader
b.02-15-99
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posted June 13, 2000 10:26
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For the Warlord of the lawyers army "Come to Judgement" maybe, or, "Injuncted" (for a mountain city perhaps)?Any use to you? I might release my copyright - for a modest fee, of course. (One good MP tip apiece will do). I've been thinking of trying MP and this thread may provide the incentive I need to do it. East Street Trader
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Ming
b.02-15-99
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posted June 13, 2000 10:32
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Xin Yu still did it best. We were in a MP game, on different sides of an alliance, and we were looking for each others cities.He had found my farthest outpost, but I hadn't found his yet. He renamed all his cities close to me "Boston", the same name as the city I had closest to him... Every time I went to check to see if my exploring units were still closer to my city... sure enough, it always said they were closest to Boston Xin is the master |
Genghis Al
b.02-15-99
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posted June 13, 2000 15:47
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Sounds like a good time. Whenever I take over a city I rename it "Anal(old city name." So if I take Boston it would be changed to Anal Boston. Made me laugh when it said Anal Boston build a granary. Naming cities for whatr they do makes things easier for me. Like "mountain post" that way you don't start building things they don't need.------------------
See you in court. |
SilverDragon
b.02-15-99
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posted June 18, 2000 20:49
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*Bump*
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finbar
b.02-15-99
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posted June 18, 2000 21:28
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Jeez, I hate the restriction on the size/length of city names. How many times do you come up one space short when typing in a brilliant name?On the other hand, the nicest city names I've come across in a while come courtesy of A. Horse - he of the horribly underdeveloped ego, and familiar to many of you - who delights in modest city names like BowDown2Horse, Worship Horse, Blessed Horse, Viva Horse, etc. Brightens up a dull game. ------------------
finbar
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tonic
b.02-15-99
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posted June 18, 2000 23:11
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Maybe I've chosen my handle here so as to be able to call my capital: Tonicity . |
Alexander's Horse
b.02-15-99
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posted June 18, 2000 23:23
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*blush*My favourite cities names at the moment are: LoVe THat HoRse
F*ckI'mGood
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I'm2Sexy4myCiv 
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Carolus Rex
b.02-15-99
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posted June 19, 2000 03:51
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When Sten Sture introduced me to MP he used a couple of variations on the original Sioux city names. Wounded Elbow instead of Wounded Knee, Beer Paw instead of Bear Paw and so on. Later on I added a few myself, like Ricky Lake instead of Stony Lake...I sometimes use Goody Hut for my cap followed by Hoody Gut, Another Hut, New Hut, Jabba the Hut etc... When I run out of ideas I look for city characteristics. Danger Hut or Front Hut in contested areas, Strong Hut for a well defended city, Whale Hut if the city has a whale... Others are Untouchable, Invincible, but I also use combos like A mistake?, Anotherone? or Bad, Lousy, Worse... Carolus |
Carolus Rex
b.02-15-99
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posted June 19, 2000 03:57
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Hm, after rereading my post (and AH's) I reckon' it ain't exactly city names with attitude... Oh well! Carolus
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Alexander's Horse
b.02-15-99
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posted June 19, 2000 08:54
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"Horse is GOD" is a city name I use and recommend to all of you.
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The Mad Monk
b.02-15-99
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posted June 19, 2000 10:51
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My naming convention is to name cities on the home continent after the local terrain--Whale Inlet, Wildwood (nearby pheasent), Vista (adjacent to a lake and a mountain), etc. Poetic, if boring. Other continents get different themes, so I can tell at a glance the general location of a given city; I'll often pick a state as a theme, or a fictional world.If the city came from a hut and I'm planning to diband it for the NONE settler, I'll name it "Born To Die", "Shoot Me Now", "What City?", etc., so they stand out and I don't forget them. |
Sten Sture
b.02-15-99
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posted June 19, 2000 12:11
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When I used to play big map SP games I would get confused on the location of cities so I would name all of the cities in an area after the the teams in a particular sports league or musical groups with a similar style. So Abba would be close to the BeeGees, and Arsenal close to ManUtd, and the Pacers close to the Lakers. It is also a good way to taunt in MP. How could your stronghold be over run by units from Barry Mannilow? Or if your opponent is a big Liverpool soccer fan and he is being attacked by Manchester Utd units. hehehe |
DaveV
b.02-15-99
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posted June 19, 2000 12:24
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I have no imagination, and use the default names, but I've been amused by some of the names I've seen on the other side. My favorite was in a 3-way game with oedo and Carolus Rex; oedo and I had an uneasy peace treaty, and my exploring horsemen stumbled into one of his cities. As I tried to move away from "Go Away", I blundered into "Get Lost".Edited to correct redundant verbs.
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Alexander's Horse
b.02-15-99
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posted June 19, 2000 18:16
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Surprised noone has mentioned the city names of the Great Raz:North, South, East and West Raz, Slightly South West Raz, etc. etc.
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East Street Trader
b.02-15-99
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posted June 19, 2000 18:45
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I wonder if "Horse's Arse" has any attractions?Hmmm. Better rephrase that. "Horse's Arse Anyone?" No, no, no. Still not quite right. "Kick Horse's Ass" Now that sounds like a good name.
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Aurelius
b.02-15-99
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posted June 19, 2000 18:56
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I think Alexander may have been less vain than his horse--definately a name with attitude. |
The Mad Viking
b.02-15-99
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posted June 19, 2000 20:23
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Good thread, I like Mad Monks idea.I once took the default names, and edited them to begin with a letter for their continent, so when I scrolled through the cities it would go one continent at a time.
aParis aRheims aTours bAvginon cCherbourg cRouen etc. I use Canal Zone for a temp canal city, and Kanal Xone for the 2nd one. I will change the name of captured cities to a spelling in keeping with the civ I'm playing. Exeter becomes Egzutar if I'm Babylonion, etc.
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Dino the Dinosore
b.02-15-99
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posted June 19, 2000 21:31
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Since the computer will assign workers to food squares before gold, and I usually want them working the gold, I name a city with a gold square something to remind me that "there's gold in them thar hills". I've used Goldtown, Auroville, Zlatograd and other variations. I hate it when I open a city screen after many turns to find the stupid computer has taken a worker off the gold square that was the reason I built the city there in the first place. |
Genghis Al
b.02-15-99
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posted June 20, 2000 01:17
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This ia Great stuff. I love the Goody hut Idea and the contenant themes. The go away bget lost i just funny junk.Alex v5.8 |
Seeker
b.02-15-99
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posted June 20, 2000 01:29
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I sometimes put -gaard -ville -burg ect after something interesting (ie Whaleville, Goldton, Coalburg, River City) or the nearest enemy (Azgaard, Chingaard, ect)Of course, the capital is Seekeropolis. |
East Street Trader
b.02-15-99
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posted June 20, 2000 02:11
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Sometimes I name the first city Laraville for my daughter, the next Angel Town for my wife (Angela), the next Sylvan Glades for my mum (Sylvia), Victory! for my dad Victor etc, etc.Kinda boring but I like it. Watch out tho' if you try it. You're bound to have one or two cities that you favour. Laraville gets to have all sorts of stuff that maybe should be being built elsewhere and, if they've recently bankrupted me buying EVEN MORE clothes the silk/gold caravan just has to make a delivery to Angel Town even when it shouldn't really. PS Just thought of a good one - for that mountain eyrie "Mile High". A city name with altitude.
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Alexander's Horse
b.02-15-99
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posted June 20, 2000 17:54
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I put a couple cities behind finbar's lines in a duel: "LookBehindYou!" and "OverHere!"
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neilinoz
b.02-15-99
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posted June 22, 2000 08:25
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I've had a few different modes of city naming:1) Bad language cities (F*ck, Sh*t, C*nt) 2) CD Collection cities, (Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Metallica) 3) Song name Cities, (Stairway Heaven, Brain Damage, Unforgiven II) 4) Local suburbs cities (Hollywood, Culver City, Basingstoke) 5) Railway station sities (Kings Cross, Marylebone) 6) Name calling cities (Moron! Idiot! Der Brain!) 7) Author cities (Clancy, Grisham, Joyce) 8) Sporting team cities (Essex CCC, Man Utd, NY Jets, Chic. Bulls) ------------------
"I have found you can find happiness in slavery" neilinoz@hotmail.com
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tobyr
b.02-15-99
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posted June 22, 2000 11:00
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I accidentally created a neat city name for an agressive civ when I was editing the game's default city names. Here it is: I
That's right, just the word "I" .
- toby ------------------
toby robison
criticalpaths@mindspring.com
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finbar
b.02-15-99
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posted June 22, 2000 19:15
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Whichever theme you take with city naming, make sure you choose one that will supply enough names to keep you going. Nothing worse than running out of names and having to change themes mid-theme. *Horse, of course, would construe this to mean changing horses in mid-theme* Anyone even remotely thinking of running with the Phil Spector 60s Girl Groups city-naming theme - Ronettes, Crystals, etc - should forget it immediately. You run out of names very quickly. Unless, of course, you segue into other Phil Spector artists like the Righteous Brothers, Ike & Tina Turner, Ray Peterson and Curtis Lee. Oh, and Gene Pitney - he recorded with Phil Spector at least once. God knows why. Regardless, a decent-sized Civ will exhaust the Phil Spector catalogue. Which is a crying shame. He was, and remains, God. Even if insane, and a rip-off merchant. Mmm. Upon reflection, I'm probably the only person in the universe to contemplate the Phil Spector city-naming theme. I'm odd. Feel free to forget any or all of the above. ------------------
finbar
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East Street Trader
b.02-15-99
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posted June 23, 2000 08:12
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Au contraire Finbar. That looks like the next challenge to me. Theme still alive when you found your 50th city anyone?"I" is indeed a good one. Agree Horse of Course? By the way, loved "Look behind You" - also "Get Lost". Yet more excellent reasons to start playing MP. |
SCG
b.02-15-99
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posted June 23, 2000 08:37
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in terms of themes, i usually don't have too much of a problem keeping them alive indefinitely, after all, i only need to come up with at most 255 right? Of course most of my themes are pretty broad (cities in Texas, planets in the Star Trek Universe etc), or if i'm bored, renaming the 'extra' names to continue the city names of my chosen civilization in the city.txt file (only takes a nearby atlas ) Then there was the time I named my continents and numbered the cities on the continents (Sol-1, Sol-2, Sol-3, Centari-1, Centari-2 etc) Only problem with that was incorperating captured cities into the numbering system - having Sol-14 coming before Sol-2 on the city list for example) anyway, once a naming theme starts, i always try and stick with it to term |
William Keenan
b.02-15-99
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posted June 23, 2000 17:10
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