can i change city names

[ServiusTheGreat]

i just conquered byzantium and i want to change the name to valerianopolis after the general who conquered it, valerius magnus,so can i do it guys becauseevery time i try it says that ive selected the wrng file to sav it to

[CaesarVincens]

In the game, right click the city name on the details scroll, then type away.

[ServiusTheGreat]

wow im a retard,thanks caesar

[Scutarii]

You also need to enable it by (in the preferences folder) changing CHANGE_SETTLEMENT_NAMES:FALSE to TRUE (its the last line). If you have, just follow CaeserVincens instructions.

[CaesarVincens]

It should be enabled already in XGM, especially if you are playing on BI.

And you are not a retard, this is not a well known feature of RTW.

[Warmaster]

It should be enabled already in XGM, especially if you are playing on BI.

And you are not a retard, this is not a well known feature of RTW.

Seconded. It took me ages to realise I could do this

[Deiphobos]

ServiusTheGreat, in my book you are definitely not a retard because you just made my day. I had never thought of doing anything of the like. What an amazing gesture towards your general. And thank for asking that question.

[chazap]

ServiusTheGreat, in my book you are definitely not a retard because you just made my day. I had never thought of doing anything of the like. What an amazing gesture towards your general. And thank for asking that question.

i agree with said statement...you rock! i had thought of this, but never asked....and now i just learned how....thanks Servius...

[ServiusTheGreat]

hahah thanks guys,i never got it to work on my game but meh.

[ServiusTheGreat]

well thank you for your help kind gentlemen

[ServiusTheGreat]

hahahah it worked,every time i tried i double clicked on the city andthen went to the city details scroll,but then i just double clicked on the city and went up to the city name and it worked.i now have a few cities with new names like VALERIANOPOLIS finally,Galerianopolis,Heliopolis,Oppianopolis,Semproniopolis,Germaniopolis,Britanopolis,Cornelianoplis and Cassianopolis named after cassius magnus my current faction leader

[CaesarVincens]

Why are you naming your good Roman cities with Greek names? Polis is undeniably Greek, I don't know if there is an equivalent in Latin though.

[ServiusTheGreat]

hehe yeah i felt dirty doing it,and to answer your question about the latin equivalent wouldnt it be ople like constantinople,but opolis sounds so much cooler and im trying to make it like a very greeco roman empire with mixes of both cultures,in fact i currently have a hybrid legion with cohorts and hoplites

[CaesarVincens]

Alright, that's cool.

However, I think the '-ople' in Constantinople is because the Byzantines spoke Greek mainly, so it is from '-polis', but Anglicized.

[KozCDVI]

'Constantinopolis' sounds rather better tbh.

[LucretiusTC]

Yep, I think the most correct Latin forms should look like this:
Constantinus > Constantinopolis (aka Constantinople), Hadrianus > Hadrianopolis (aka Adrianople), Pompeius > Pompeiopolis, etc.

Other Roman naming options could be e.g. Colonia Agrippina (ancient name of Köln/Cologne, Germany), Augusta Treverorum ("City of Augustus in the land of the Treveri", modern Trier/Treves in Germany), or simply Caesarea.

Luc.

[Reloader-1]

If you want late Roman (Latin) names for a bunch of places, here ya go:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histo...empire_395.jpg

EDIT: How do you do thumbnails? The map was HUGE!

[CaesarVincens]

Great map, but everything is in English, so it's not too much help with Latin names of cities.

[Reloader-1]

Huh? Did you look at the map? The only English names are titles. Cities are in Latin, and so are regions (top right).

[CaesarVincens]

I'm sorry, you are right, many of the names are in Latin, I didn't notice those at first, but still many cities' and some regions' names are in English; after all the Romans didn't call their city "Rome", nor the the city of Athens just that. It appears that those cities which still exist or have proper English names are in English, for example Egypt, not the Latin Aegyptus, but everywhere else the names are Latin.