[Freeciv-Dev] Re: city names (was: It's a game already!)

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 04:15:35PM +0100, Reinier Post wrote:

> Also, I've played with the thought of generating city names based on
> a given list: fake 'Dutch' names will be even more amusing than actual
> ones.  But the algorithm I planned to use doesn't produce names that
> are good enough.

Hmm.  Most algorithms require that you break your names in syllables (or,
rather, reusable components).  So that:

Amst:er:dam
Rott:er:dam
Groen:ing:en

Give us:

Groenerdam
Rottingdam
Amstingdam

etc...

Someone has an algorithm to randomly generate tolkein-esque names they wrote
for some angband variant, IIRC -- maybe greg would remember...

Jules

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