How I deal with city specialisation.

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You know how in the later game you have difficulty remembering what city specs in what as they level?  (Hell I have trouble after three cities :p).  I didn't want to start naming my cities: Gold Producer.  But what I did do was come up with four prefixes and to my surprise they still look and sound fantasy-ish, but they make it very easy to remember the specializations.  Guess what these cities do.

 

Gol Turunth

Arc Manalon

Tec Duran

 

So when you have a whole bunch: Gol Turunth and Gol Maral etc it does give a unifying sounding system to my cities.  Still looks and sounds like fantasy names and keeps what's spec'd in what.  Dunno, the first three letters of what they're in just seems to work for me.  I do have the odd Fort for occasionally I like a city that gets the random unit.

 

Gavadel

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

That's pretty creative... personally I just stick (G), (A), and (T) at the end of my city name upon foundation. I found that I had to come up with a list of names that I always use just to remember where which city was as well, random names becomes very hard to keep track of for some reason. Cities that I capture all has their old empire name as well, as in: Magnar (G) and Periden (T). I generally only capture one city and kill the sovereign, so it works well enough.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

I like it. I was using either Roman numerals or Greek letters.

Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Tec Duran, hmm? Does it have a sister city named Duran Duran?

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting sagittary, reply 3
Tec Duran, hmm? Does it have a sister city named Duran Duran?
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Yes her name is Rio.... :rofl:

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

You know how in the later game you have difficulty remembering what city specs in what as they level? (Hell I have trouble after three citie
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Yeah me too. I did notice that when a city levels up you can see the stats below. That way you can make an informed decision without having to keep track. The update that lists cities like colonies in GalCiv is pretty handy too.