Renaming cities and countries

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Personally, what I think would be a good thing is, when you successfully set up a new colony, you get the option of naming it, or choosing a name. This would give the player a more personal attachment to his empire, and possibly, a greater need to protect your colony of Fortress Dimwit or something

 

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I believe that Narva was changed to St. Petersburg and what about Amsterdam (was it originally Haarlem?)

 

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I would have to agree that it would be interesting to be able to change and/or choose the names of colonies in EU2. After all, I'd like to point out that right now we have a state of New York, not New Amsterdam, if you know what I mean. However, why limit this the New World? I see no conceivable reason why you shouldn't be able to change the name of, say, Magdenburg to "Reichburg" after having completed your conquest of Germany. Its the type of thing some rulers just might do, after all, and it does add to the flavor of the game.

Furthermore, I think we've all missing the obvious about changing country names, considering that when the game starts, very few of the Modern European nations are even united, it seems only fair that we will have the option to re-Christian our country, perhaps after conquering a certian percentage of a region. After all, it would seem odd for,say, Aragon to conquer all of Spain by 1750 and STILL be called "Aragon" or for even Novograd to annext Ryzan, Muscovoy and STILL be called "Novograd" instead of Russia.

I'm not sure exactly how this option would work, but in my mind, you'd have to annex 75 percent of a gercian region before being able to declare yourself the name of that region. So if Aragon conquered everything BUT Portugal, they could call themselves Spain. Or if Saxony have captured all of Germany(including Austria) but has failedto capture an enlarged Pommerania, then they coudl rename themselves as "Germany". SOmething would also have to happen diplomaticly, but I'm not sure queit what, to be hoenst with you. Perhaps, dpeending how you went about the creation of your state, it woudl give you a diplomatic bonus, or a minus?

 

[Agelastus]

Well reasoned, well reasoned.

I think Muscovy's name changed when the title of the ruler was amended-"Tsar of all the Russias". And Spain (Iberian Espagne) has rather obvious reasons for the choice, it being a corruption of Roman Hispania.

 

[Shadowstrike]

Going back to the renaming provicnes idea, maybe we could have the map in a openable format and be allowed to edit it out of the game to our hearts content, while not ingame. Better yet, have it in small chunks, so that we can actualy open the map, move the town around or whatever we feel like.

 

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Yes, changing province name would make game more fun. It would give it more human initiative and control. Dazing, Kalingrad, Breslau, Constantinople and ST. Petrograd are few names that change. Country names are a problem. How do you decide who can take the name France if you have 2 players with half the country?

 

[Agelastus]

Changing the province names on the map would be difficult since they are drawn in, judging by the map, rather than being simple labels. it won't be an option for EU2, I'm sure.

 

[Blade!]

Perhaps... a country like Muscovy would become "Russia" when it acquired a certian amount of its Sheild provinces? That sounds like a good mechanism.

 

[Shadowstrike]

What I'm proposing is that we turn the map into a giant canvas, or more likely several dozen canvases, and allow us to draw on them to our hearts content. It wouldn't affect how the game works, but it would allow us to change province names. However if people started erasing boundaries, there could be a problem.....

 

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Originally posted by Agelastus
Changing the province names on the map would be difficult since they are drawn in, judging by the map, rather than being simple labels. it won't be an option for EU2, I'm sure.

You are quite correct.
I have already explained this somewhere else:

The map is hand drawn and 512MB uncompressed.
To uncompress it, alter it, re render it and compress it again takes about 1 and a half hours on a 1GB pc! This is clearly not an option in EU2.

Also it would make things difficult both in MP games (People would have different maps) and when making AARs or talking about the game on these forums.

It will not happen in EU2 .....

 

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i think that not only the nations name:Muscovy should change but also the avatar .At some point in the game the Moscovy shield should be replaced by a Two headed eagle with the original Moscow shield in the center of it .Or when playing as England the cross of ??? should be replaced by the union jack.

 

[Jools]

Maybe changing province names would be useful for scenarios. BTW, I thought the map was a pic that had interactive content. Maybe just use Adobe Photoshop?

BTW, hi Solmyr, how's life?

 

[Shadowstrike]

If we had nothing better to do with our sad and sorry little lives then waste 1 and 1/2 hours opening the EU map to change it, why should artificial limitations stop us? Seriously though, you'll get people doing that. Not that it could be sent over the internet but if we really wanted to, make it so that its possible, though not reccomended.

 

[Demetrios]

Originally posted by Pomerania Prince
Yes, changing province name would make game more fun. It would give it more human initiative and control. Dazing, Kalingrad, Breslau, Constantinople and ST. Petrograd are few names that change. Country names are a problem. How do you decide who can take the name France if you have 2 players with half the country?

Kaliningrad? LOL. Konigsberg will be just fine, especially as Kalinin was a 20th century personage and it would be vastly anachronistic to use his name for a game that ends in 1819...

 

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Originally posted by Gurli
Or when playing as England the cross of ??? should be replaced by the union jack.

The Union jack is not and never has been an English flag. Unless EU2 can handle the merging of nations on equal terms, rather than one country diplo-annexing the other, then a United kingdom can't emerge anywhere in the world.