[Freeciv-Dev] Re: yet more new cities

[Arkadiusz Danilecki <szopen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Sean Connor wrote:

> 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.

        But there are no more Romans! If you create nation of
Polans, they could have cities of calisia etc, because there are
no more polans.

> 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.

        Not really. 

> 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?  :)

        Well.. i ask few my friends and 90% of them, to my surprise,
agreed with you. So you have right, after all. But let me explain why
it is ,,too complicated'' to some of us.
        The problem is that there are no more romans, and italians do not
publish maps with londinium as italian city which is temporarily under
british occupation. And during my short time i read about german maps
where danzig, stettin, breslau are ur-deutsche cities which are part of
great german vaterland. This can make you nervous.  
        I know this _should not_ be case. But it is. 

> 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.

        I don;t care about alexandria. I don't live there. Of course you
can call me paranoic, but i can't manage that. 

A.D.Danilecki "szopen"