Naming of Colonies

[Doomdark]

This is more of a suggestion for EU 2 than EU, considering the late development stage it is in by now...

When a colony is first founded the player should be able name the province as well as its capital city. Considering the vastly different paths history may take in EU, I don't see why the province/city names in the New World, Australia, etc should be fixed.

The downside to this is of course that it is easier to talk to your friends about your exploits (and write AARs) if the names are the ones used historically, but you can easily get around this by keeping the historical names in parantheses on some info screen or other.

What do you think, fellow forum dwellers?

/Doomie

 

[Doomdark]

In the same way as Civilization games allow you to re-name cities yes?

Almost. But I don't think you should necessarily be able to re-name cities and provinces you already possess or take from other European nations, just name the areas you actually colonize.

/Doomie

 

[Doomdark]

I think that would be a nice feature....and not too hard to implement as well

The problem is that the province names appear to be part of the map graphics, meaning that they are not easily renamed in-game. Including the names in the graphics is prettier than using a font-overlay, but far less modifiable.

/Doomie

 

[Doomdark]

When playing Sweden I built a colony in the Province Hormouz near Persia, and the city was called Fort Christina.

Aha, so the founded cities are randomly named? That's a step in the right direction, even though Fort Christina was actually in Delaware.

/Doomie