[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] Renaming cities. (PR#567)

[Greg Wooledge <wooledge@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gaute B Strokkenes (gs234@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> * Don't let anyone rename a city to the same name as another.

I see two problems with this:

1) This can be used to learn the names of enemy cities.  E.g., if you
know that the Babylonians are in the game, you can attempt to rename
one of your cities to "Lagash", "Nippur", "Ur", etc., and in this way
learn how many cities the Babylonians have (assuming the Babs haven't
taken defensive naming coutermeasures).

2) As discussed a while back, there's some feeling that having multiple
cities of the same name is a feature.  In real life, there are several
occurrences of cities with the same name (Athens, Greece; and Athens,
Georgia, USA).  There's no overriding reason why this should be disallowed
in the game.

-- 
Greg Wooledge                    | "Truth belongs to everybody."
wooledge@xxxxxxxxxxx             |   Red Hot Chili Peppers
http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ |

pgpx74cFbK2CV.pgp
Description: PGP signature