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

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

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


On 2005-10-17, at 23.53, Benedict Adamson wrote:

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

Well, London is a city of English (and British) nation, while Londinium 
is a city of Roman nation. Do you mean that if the English and the 
Romans are both in one game, London and Londinium shouldn't be allowed 
to coexist?

Daniel