Citylists

[Maragil]

I've gone through the help section on the wiki, but can't find out how to change to the citylist_en_gb from the other one with Rochester,Appingfield etc...

Please can someone give a step by step guide.  Using Linux, and i've got paks128,64 and 128.britain

Thanks

Maragil

[vilvoh]

Just open that file with a text editor, and remove the names you don't want or remove all lines and place the names of the cities you want to play with. One per line. I recommend you to use gvim as text editor. Then save the file, run Simutrans and start a new game to ensure the city names have been loaded correctly.

[Maragil]

What's the name of that file?

Edit:and also the default location of it?

[vilvoh]

The file is at simutrans directory, at pak/text folder and its name is citylist_en_gb.txt

[prissi]

and it must be renamed to citylist_en.txt before it will be used by the program ...

[Maragil]

is it the same for pak128? or do i need to do it another way?
Edit: also, what's the name of the file with Rencross etc. in pak128, or/and HOW DO I CHANGE IT to the great britain ones with London etc.

Its been working fine on pak64 though 

Edit: i've looked in pak128, no change though.... someone please help!

[prissi]

The renaming is needed. The filename must be citylist_en.txt.

[Maragil]

Looked through my files, but i already have a file named citylist_en.text....

[Isaac Eiland-Hall]

Right.

1. Rename the existing citylist_en.txt to, say, citylist_en_original.txt -- just so you have it around.
2. Rename your desired citylist to citylist_en.txt

Alternatively:
1. Create a new file called citylist_en_original.txt and copy the contents of your existing citylist there
2. Copy the contents of the citylist you want into citylist_en.txt

In other words:
- They're just text files. Simutrans will load whatever is in citylist_en.txt (for english)...
- So by whatever method you're comfortable with, you want the contents of citylist_en.txt to reflect the citynames you want to use.

So however you accomplish the task.... And this means you can edit the list however you like... :-)

[Maragil]

I've got that, but my original citylist_en has london etc.... but i still get rencross
:(

[jamespetts]

That might be because it runs out of names in the city list, and has to add more from the invented list.

[sethtriggs]

I've gotten this problem occasionally on Simu 64 on Linux too - I did start a Nightly game with Simu 128 and the names worked properly. But the 64 game still gave me the "heritage" names. I tend to prefer playing with the British names meself, hehe...

-Seth

[micslu]

Perhaps you know already but ...

You can change the city names individually after their creation on the map.
I always do so after new map generation.
Kingston-upon-Hull, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and even Stoke-on-Kent may all be fine cities but take up too much space on the station labels.
My ideal city names are Bern, Roma, Metz, Paris, Ulm, Koln, Graz, York, etc.

[sethtriggs]

Perhaps you know already but ...

You can change the city names individually after their creation on the map.
I always do so after new map generation.
Kingston-upon-Hull, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and even Stoke-on-Kent may all be fine cities but take up too much space on the station labels.
My ideal city names are Bern, Roma, Metz, Paris, Ulm, Koln, Graz, York, etc.

I do this anyway; it's just time-consuming to do so, hehehe...especially since I like to make lots of city clusters.

-Seth