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

[Erik Sigra <freeciv@xxxxxxx>]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> 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).

That is an important point. It could be automated with client scripting.

> 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.

I agree.