Citylist: fictionalised English style city names August 30, 2009, 02:05:05 pm Attached is a citylist file containing 523 fictionalised English style city names for use with Pak128.Britian for those who prefer fictionalised names to go with the game (I, for one, find it confusing when real names are used for towns in a fictionalised world - why should Preston be South of Dover...?). There are enough here to have large maps with no repeated names. To use: extract the file into the /simutrans/Pak128.Britain/text folder and rename it to citylist_en.tab. Don't forget to back up your original citylist first. Quote Selected
Re: Citylist: fictionalised English style city names Reply #1 – August 30, 2009, 02:10:21 pm I am carious, how did you generate those names? Surely you didn't make each one up by hand. Quote Selected
Re: Citylist: fictionalised English style city names Reply #2 – August 30, 2009, 02:11:53 pm I did, actually. Quote Selected
Re: Citylist: fictionalised English style city names Reply #3 – August 30, 2009, 02:29:17 pm Badger's End ;-)Dunno whether it was conscious or subconscious. (Either way, a nice tribute)EDIT: "Isaac Falls"? Oi! My balance is perfectly fine, I ****ure you. XD Quote Selected
Re: Citylist: fictionalised English style city names Reply #4 – August 30, 2009, 02:34:19 pm Quote from: Isaac.Eiland-Hall – on August 30, 2009, 02:29:17 pmBadger's End ;-)Dunno whether it was conscious or subconscious. (Either way, a nice tribute)EDIT: "Isaac Falls"? Oi! My balance is perfectly fine, I ****ure you. XDEven after beer? ;-) Quote Selected
Re: Citylist: fictionalised English style city names Reply #5 – August 30, 2009, 02:38:47 pm Alcohol makes me sleepy far quicker than it would take for me to lose my balance. Oh, and forgot to say, but meant to: Very very nice list. I have a hard time believing a significant portion isn't real - so I'd say it's very well done. Quote Selected
Re: Citylist: fictionalised English style city names Reply #6 – August 30, 2009, 02:50:05 pm Thank you :-) There might be one or two in there that, by dint of coincidence, actually are real (in fact, it is rather improbable that there aren't any that are), but, whether coincidentally real or not, they are all invented. I rather like inventing city names, as you might see... ;-) Quote Selected
Re: Citylist: fictionalised English style city names Reply #7 – August 30, 2009, 04:22:28 pm jamespetts.creativityPointCount += 500; Quote Selected
Re: Citylist: fictionalised English style city names Reply #8 – August 30, 2009, 04:25:41 pm Quote from: mwoodburn81 – on August 30, 2009, 04:22:28 pmjamespetts.creativityPointCount += 500;Do I get a prize? Quote Selected
Re: Citylist: fictionalised English style city names Reply #9 – August 30, 2009, 04:39:09 pm That's it. Quote Selected
Re: Citylist: fictionalised English style city names Reply #10 – August 30, 2009, 04:42:39 pm Excellent! Quote Selected
Re: Citylist: fictionalised English style city names Reply #11 – August 31, 2009, 03:06:59 pm i wanted to suggest something regarding city names for quite a while now. i really get confused in my map when glasgow is in the south and bristol in the south. therefor i rename the 5 largest cities in maps according to their position.my suggestion is to introduce another column in the city list with a rough position. this will be used in a weighting function when city names are randomly picked during map generation. an entry of NW would make it more likely a town in the northeaster sector of the map is named like it. Quote Selected
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