[Freeciv-Dev] Re: yet more new cities

[Sean Connor <sec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 07:59:31PM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> a)
> Roman/English should be resolved, this really mess in one's mind if he
> has both Danzig and Gdansk.

Really, this 'problem', if you choose to make it one, goes deeper
than that.  Off hand, I noticed that the French nation contains
Paris and Lyons, which were the Roman cities of Lutetia and
Lugdunum, respectively.  Both Lutetia and Lugdunum are in the
Roman nation, as well.

Really, considering that, through conquest, these cities could
end up being Egyptian or Japanese during the course of the game,
it seems rather silly to be worrying about this.

To me, it's simple.  Lutetia is a Roman city; Paris is a French
city.  Londinium is a Roman city; London is an English city.
Danzig is a German city; Gdansk is a Polish city.  Koenigsberg
is a German city; Kaliningrad is a Russian city.  Is that too
complicated for you?  :)

If you wanted to, you could also fret about why Alexandria is
listed as an Egyptian city, when it was in fact built by the
Greeks.

> b)
> There were possibly many Koenigsbergs, but only 1 important one,
> and we are talking about this one.

Actually, I think a bigger problem is when more than one
civilization have cities by the same name.  Canada, for
example, has cities named 'London' and 'Sydney'.  In that
case, I think it's pretty obvious that their counterpart
cities in England and Australia should have primacy, but in
some cases it isn't so clear.  Both Greece and Egypt, for
example, had cities called 'Thebes'.  I notice that Freeciv
currently solves this dilemma by putting the city in both
civilizations.  :)

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