Original City names

[Tigran The Great]

I'm hoping in Rome 2 the city's will go by there original names not by there Roman ones. I want the Roman cities to sound Latin, the greek ones to sound the greek the persian ones to sound persian. I don't want Roman names for cities that have nothing to do with Rome.Making the names original will add to the difference of cultures in each faction.

I want Carthage to be called by what ever the Carthaginians called it not"Cathaga"

[Orlorin]

I think if your playing Persia, all cities should be as the persians called them. The same for Rome and other nations. Instead of having every city have its own culture as its name, have the city name dictated by your culture.

[Julio-Claudian]

I think if your playing Persia, all cities should be as the persians called them. The same for Rome and other nations. Instead of having every city have its own culture as its name, have the city name dictated by your culture.

This is the obvious way to do it. After all that is how it happens in real life.

[AndyMoszejevsky]

..and I hope also for Germania, Britannia and Gallia - let me know CA if you need help with that.

Andy

[Korporal]

And I would really appreciate if Slavic placenames were not used for locations in Germania again. After all, the Slavs did not reach Central Europe before the Great Migrations much, much later.

[Wowwars]

Northern Europe - uncivilized pig farmers. Its a bigger honour of a name giving them their conqueres name, because really who even gives a about northern Europe in the Late Anicent Era. save em content for Medieval 3

[Korporal]

Northern Europe - uncivilized pig farmers. Its a bigger honour of a name giving them their conqueres name, because really who even gives a about northern Europe in the Late Anicent Era.

Except, perhaps, for the Romans ... who were utterly crushed, defeated and humiliated by those uncivilized pig farmers.

[AndyMoszejevsky]

BTW - we have enough new scientific theses omn german universitys (newest Researches to Ptolemy's Geographica)


which should allow us, to set also village names in the Germania Magna Instead of incorrected tribe names.
But for 300BC -100 AD thats anyway ahistoric - only after that we can Locate some villages in the hinterland.

Proto Slavic names are another problem - we dont known - we only know that the Late phase of the Zarubinsky cultures could be slavic - and please don't mix slavic with the early time Venedae - thats really different things - in EB2 I read some phantasy things about that - and I hope I dont see it again in RTW2.

Andy

...But I hope still the RTW2-world is not over at our river ALBIS (Elbe) and BORYSTHENES (Dnepr)!!!

Andy

[underworld965]

Except, perhaps, for the Romans ... who were utterly crushed, defeated and humiliated by those uncivilized pig farmers.

Well...Both these statements are wrong...The Germans were not uncivilized pig farmers, while on the contrary, the Romans really only suffered the major defeat of Teutoburg Forest while their armies inflicted multiple defeats on the "germans" (The only real German confederation at the time was the one under Arminius, and that potential for unity was ended by Germanicus) throughout the time of the empire.

[Ariovist]

@Underworld 965
Sadly you are wrong too.
The confederation of Arminius was definately not ended by Germanicus, because one year after Germanicus was granted a triumph in Rome after horrible losses in his campaigns, the "defeated" tribal coalition of Arminius was able to fight against the Marcomanni confederation of Marobodus on greater scale.
This war ended in a strategic victory of Arminius as the power of Marobodus ended and he had to flee to Rome.
Only after that the confederation lost its primal cause, the Romans were gone.

Additionally you forgot to mention some other roman defeats in Germania as the Clades Lolliana or the Battle at Pontus Longi for example.

Back to topic:
Please no cities for the germanic tribes at all - at least not in BC.

[Fallenempire]

It would be better if the campaign map had the name of cities as the faction your playing as pronounced it. So Carthage would have a different name when playing as rome and germania and egypt ...

[Jarvisimo]

It would be better if the campaign map had the name of cities as the faction your playing as pronounced it. So Carthage would have a different name when playing as rome and germania and egypt ...

This.
Historically accurate, makes sense, and adds immersion.
+rep.

[kanzy]

It would be better if the campaign map had the name of cities as the faction your playing as pronounced it. So Carthage would have a different name when playing as rome and germania and egypt ...

Yes thats a good Idea, I saw a mod or two do that in MTW2.

[Sir Winston Churchill]

Perhaps, an idea here, the names of cities could be based on what faction owns them and their historical names if they have them.

For instance, let's say X faction controls city. The city's name, to all, is the historical name the X called it. But when Y takes over, the name of the city is then changed to Y's historical name for it. It could be good for simulating the spread of Roman culture and such, since they did a good deal of naming on their way. So if this were in Empire for example, and the Dutch owned "New Amsterdam", when the British take over it would change to "New York".


But of course this small, interesting little detail would never be on CA's mind of things to do.

[Red Hue]

Perhaps, an idea here, the names of cities could be based on what faction owns them and their historical names if they have them.

For instance, let's say X faction controls city. The city's name, to all, is the historical name the X called it. But when Y takes over, the name of the city is then changed to Y's historical name for it. It could be good for simulating the spread of Roman culture and such, since they did a good deal of naming on their way. So if this were in Empire for example, and the Dutch owned "New Amsterdam", when the British take over it would change to "New York".


But of course this small, interesting little detail would never be on CA's mind of things to do.

I like the idea but agree that I have serious doubt that CA will bother with such details.

[Ballacraine]

Perhaps, an idea here, the names of cities could be based on what faction owns them and their historical names if they have them.

For instance, let's say X faction controls city. The city's name, to all, is the historical name the X called it. But when Y takes over, the name of the city is then changed to Y's historical name for it. It could be good for simulating the spread of Roman culture and such, since they did a good deal of naming on their way. So if this were in Empire for example, and the Dutch owned "New Amsterdam", when the British take over it would change to "New York".


But of course this small, interesting little detail would never be on CA's mind of things to do.

I think this makes most sense.

Balla.

[Gaius Marius Maximus]

Perhaps, an idea here, the names of cities could be based on what faction owns them and their historical names if they have them.

For instance, let's say X faction controls city. The city's name, to all, is the historical name the X called it. But when Y takes over, the name of the city is then changed to Y's historical name for it. It could be good for simulating the spread of Roman culture and such, since they did a good deal of naming on their way. So if this were in Empire for example, and the Dutch owned "New Amsterdam", when the British take over it would change to "New York".


But of course this small, interesting little detail would never be on CA's mind of things to do.

Ave Noble Roman
the best proposal ever for the moment of course +1

[Raimeken]

We could just bring back renaming settlements

[A4_Copy_Paper]

well for cities fake names may have to be made because when Alexander the great conquered parts of the world he named about 4 cities "Alexander".

[NosPortatArma]

I'd prefer a system in which the cities are named depening on which faction controlls them but at the same time leaving you free to customize them yourself. I bet that in many cases the romans took over a place called diffagahoho and didn't bother to make that sound roman so they'd just name it after some emperor or general, a la caesarea. This is why customization is important, your general/emperor might not be a casear but a pomeius so why would you want to name it caesarea instead of.. pompeia or something? Adds to the alternate history me thinks.