[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#14343) Data: Egyptian city list

["Benedict Adamson" <badamson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14343 >

Jason Short wrote:
...
> Egypt is a real problem case because
> it's existed for about 5,000 years, and practically none of the city
> names would be the same between modern and ancient (3000-1000 BC) city
> lists.  I'm not sure what to do except I think having it in the ancient
> list is more important.
...

I was thinking about this problem before your post. We also have a 
problem with successor states. For example, should we have London AND 
Londinium (the Roman name)? The results can be peculiar.

One way to have both would be to record aliases for city names. The AI 
could refrain from choosing a city name if one of its aliases was 
already chosen.

For example, by recording names like this: "Londinium|London (ocean,river)".