sofianosss Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Hello, Are the names of the buildings and units historically authentic? Since I am Arab and I know that Arabic is derived from Phoenician (Carthage), I remarked that some words are so close to the actual Arabic (when playing Carthage certainly) ... Are those names historically correct or were just made up for the game? Great work, I love this game Thanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanderd17 Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 The names are as correct as possible, but there's no guarantee ofc. Some civs have not a lot of written documents, which makes it hard to find plausible names. You'll also see that not all buildings have historic names yet. Some just have a question mark. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sphyrth Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Speaking of which, I'm confused about the names of the Ptolemaic buildings. Are those the pronunciations, or are the chcracters temporary placeholders for their heiroglyphic equivalents? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanderd17 Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Those should be the phonetics of the names. Both because we can't render hieroglyphs yet (at least not without a workaround; we'd need to be able to render the second Unicode plane, which is hard with the UTF-16 encoding, so we first need to bring the entire engine to UTF-8 encoding), and because they're somewhat pronounceable now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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