Not enough city names?

[The Apprentice]

In the past two games, I've noticed the following trend... Eventually, all the cities you build have the same name. In my prior game, every new city was called "Invern-on-Lynn" (sp?) while in my current game all new cities are called "Spellhaven." Is my copy special, or are others running into this?

(Playing on huge maps, max AI's)

[Gaston369]

Renaming cities according to their nature is a good idea since it is easy to do and tells you at a glance what the city does.
Names like: "Troll Chapel (trolls), Minotaur Chapel (minotaurs). Bank of Agrela(gold producer), Naval Yard (boats), etc. are very helpful and save time when you have a lot of cities.

[Satinel]

I haven't noticed this, but I don't think I've made enough cities to trigger that. I like to rename my cities, so that might be part of it too.

[SolaceAvatar]

I ended up with a city named something like donkeyville, and was disappointed that it wasn't one of the ones with access to donkeys.

[Satinel]

Alright, I've been playing a larger game and I did notice this happening. Not just with my cities, but it seemed to be the case for the AI's as well. We were both Undead. Maybe there's a set number of names for cities and when it hits the end of the list it just repeats?

[gliomarto]

Maybe they shall start making something like "New Spellhaven", as in Civ

[Satinel]

Some cities get a New in front of their name, but not most. I remember having Bigden and an AI had New Bigden right across from it.

[Grubnessul]

There seems to be a limited pool every race draws from. In my game as Lichking, I've build about 20 Idunums so far, while the AI has undead cities with names I do not have yet.