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Exile
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of the Benighted Realms
Sep 2000
time: 23:12
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There was this old 70s era board wargame called "Strategy I." It was the original generic wargame. Strat I had rules covering every period of warfare, but used one counter mix. It had roughly 25 countries on the map, each w/its own name. The designers used a mnemonic device. The first nation was called Aesgaard. Next was Bjarnheim. Next was Chessex. After that was Drammikos. Then Etracia, Fanticca, Gastonny, Hombierge, Ispanos, Jaegerstadt, etc.
It goes all the way to X'Chow. I name all my cities this way. If there are more than 25, I start over with the mnemonic but make up new names. Athania, Boraxia . . .
Salutations,
Exile
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Lost in America
"a freaking mastermind." --Stefu
"or a very good liar." --Stefu
[This message has been edited by Exile (edited January 17, 2001).]
[This message has been edited by Exile (edited January 17, 2001).]
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Basileus of the Romans
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United States
Jan 2001
time: 05:12
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I normalyy start renaming cities when they get into the "general" category for cites after you build your fist 30 or so (Hamburg, Capua, Pisa, etc). They normally get named "New (whatever city)" or "(name of ruler)-oplois". Examples would be, "New Constantinople", "New Trebizond", "Basilopolis", etc.
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Carolus Rex
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Sweden
Jan 1970
time: 06:12
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I often rename my cities, not just the capitol.
Sometimes depending on my ruler name. If I call myself Jerry Springer I use names like Weird Guests, Guards on Stage, Springerville and so on. If I play as the Apolytoners the city names are Double Login, Apolyton City, Spam City, Post Thread and the like.
Sometimes I tweak the original names a little to make them funnier, especially if I play as the Sioux. Stone Lake becomes Ricky Lake, Kill Bear is changed to Killer Beer, Wounded Knee to Wounded Elbow, Slim Buttes becomes Slim Butt etc.
Sometimes I follow a theme like all the cities must have the word Hut in them. Goody Hut, Pizza Hut, Another Hut etc.
In MP I always rename cities far from my empire's heart after the other civs' city names. So if I play against the Romans and get an advanced tribe far away from home I rename it Cumae or something. That way, the opponent can't use the "locate city"-trick.
Carolus
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Smokey tha nuke man
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da dawg house
Oct 2000
time: 05:12
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usualy, i let my cat walk across the keyboard and that's my city name. if my cat's shedding, i'll start naming cities based on my mood. for instance, at one point, my cities were starting to revolt alot, so i named my next three cities "lost retards", "gaylords" and "butthumps".
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jcarkey
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St. Louis
Aug 2000
time: 23:12
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I usually don't. But sometimes I might just decide to go A, B, C, etc. If then I double over I go A-2, B-2, C-2, etc.
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If someone doesn't agree with you, you haven't explained yourself well enough-Luther Ely Smith
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Six Thousand Year Old Man
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Ad Rock
Aug 2000
time: 00:12
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I wish I could say I was really inventive, but I'm not. I just play SP, so I don't have to worry about having to deceive my opponents with city names!
I use the default names usually and once I hit the generalized names, I try to select new ones to make it easier to keep track of where my cities are on the large or giga-map. For example, if I have a bunch of colonies on an island, I'll give them names of Australian cities as a memory aid. Or Canadian cities for local colour 
If I'm playing ToT with the extended game, all cities on Centaurus start with "New". In the Fantasy game, my cities underground, underwater and in the sky are prefaced with under-, aqua-, and over-. Again, just a memory aid.
STYOM
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Rufus T. Firefly
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is one way of saying it, though I prefer "mensch"
Sep 2000
time: 07:12
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When I play as the Americans, I like to cluster my cities by region, so that Eastern cities like New York, Washington, Boston, Philly, and Baltimore are all near each other, as are Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinatti, and the midwestern cities; Seattle, San Francisco, and the West Coast Cities, etc. It's a nice memory aid.
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Dig trenches, with our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made. Here, run out and get some trenches.
-- Rufus T. Firefly, the original rush-builder
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When I'm having so many cities it's becoming hard to remember where they are in a large map, I pick a central city and rename the nearby cities by the compass points, for example Helsinki, Helsinki N, Helsinki S, Helsinki NW, Helsinki W and so on
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Anodyne
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Being perverse is bad.
Jan 2001
time: 07:12
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Sometimes I change the names to "correct" names (I never remember to edit the city.txt), like Rome to Roma, Athens to Athenai, etc... Yeah, I know I'm a nerd
Anyway, I like playing Babylonians, and usually I rename Babylon as "Bab-ili", "Babilu", "Babalon", or "Babel" to sound more 'cool'. Babel is my favourite, as it comes from the bible and was often referred as an evil place 
And when I run out of city names, I start renaming them with newer cities, which I know that have been built by the civ I'm playing, or making up a name in the civ's language, or making a name that's almost like the old one, like having all the possible names for Babylon in the same game.
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Anodyne
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Being perverse is bad.
Jan 2001
time: 07:12
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...and sometimes I name cities after mythologies. For example, when playing with Vikings, I might name cities (after the original names have ended) as "Valhalla", "Odin", etc... or as "Erebus", "Nyx", "Dionysios" when playing Greeks, or "Jupiter", "Saturnus", "Bacchus" with Romans, etc...
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