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Posted: **Fri May 18, 2018 7:53 pm**

Do we have a way to get capital city names derived from provinces/regions?

What I want to do is for every province/region I want to get the name of the capital and then get the map pixel position of the city.
How can I achieve this?

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2018 8:03 pm**

I might be able to help with this. I'll get back to you later when I'm in front of my dev PC.

Which macro needs the map pixel coords?

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2018 8:15 pm**

I try to get a way to create ruler names for specific regions/provinces.
So the idea was to pick a random region and use it to somehow generate a name from the namebank belonging to the region (or more specific the capital city of the region):
something like

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DFLocation locationOut;
ContentReader.GetLocation(regionID, locationID, out locationOut)

then use locationOut.Climate with namehelper class to generate name with namebank based on climate

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2018 8:46 pm**

what about introducing a dictionary with regions and capitals?

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        Dictionary<string, string> dictionaryRegionCapitals = new Dictionary<string, string>()
        {            
            { "Abibon-Gora", "Abibon-gora" },
            { "Alcaire", "Alcaire" },
            { "Alik'r Desert", "Alik'ra" },
            { "Anticlere", "Anticlere" },
            { "Antiphyllos", "Antiphyllos" },
            { "Ayasofya", "Ayasofya" },
            { "Bergama", "Bergama" },
            { "Betony", "" },
            { "Bhoriane", "Bhoriane" },
            { "Cybiades", "" },
            { "Daenia", "Daenia" },
            { "Daggerfall", "Daggerfall" },
            { "Dak'fron", "" },
            { "Dragontail Mountains", "Dragontail" },
            { "Dwynnen", "Dwynnen City"},
            { "Ephesus", "Ephesus" },
            { "Gavaudon", "Gavaudon"},
            { "Glenpoint", "Glenpoint"},
            { "Glenumbra Moors", "Glenumbra"},
            { "Ilessan Hills", "Ilessan Hills"},
            { "Isle of Balfiera", ""},
            { "Kairou", "Kairou" },
            { "Kambria", "Kambria"},
            { "Koegria", "Koegria"},
            { "Kozanset", "Kozanset" },
            { "Lainlyn", "Lainlyn" },
            { "Menevia", "Menevia"},
            { "Mournoth", "Mournoth" },
            { "Myrkwasa", "Myrkwasa" },
            { "Northmoor", "Northmoor"},
            { "Orsinium Aera", "Orsinium"},
            { "Phrygias", "Phrygias"},
            { "Pothago", "Pothago" },
            { "Santaki", "Santaki" },
            { "Satakalaam", "Satakalaam" },
            { "Sentinel", "Sentinel" },
            { "Shalgora", "Shalgora"},
            { "Tigonus", "Tigonus" },
            { "Totambu", "Totambu" },
            { "Tulune", "Tulune"},
            { "Urvaius", "Urvaius"},
            { "Wayrest", "Wayrest"},
            { "Wrothgarian Mountains", "Wrothgaria"},
            { "Ykalon", "Ykalon"},
        };

or should we map regional info from uesp into a dictionary of regions, e.g. http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Daggerfall_(Region)
although most of this info is in FactionData I think

update: I think FactionData should be enough to do it - has ruler and race field this should suffice - will let you know
update2: yeah this works

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2018 9:22 pm**

I'd like to avoid any hard-coded game text moving forwards. Any text added to game should be done in a way that translators can easily access.

But the good news it's probably not necessary. Capitals appear in the FACTION.TXT file with a type=7. I've always considered this a "region" type record, but I now think it indicates the political capital.

For example, Alik'ra is the capital of region 1 (which is one-based, so subtract one for region index 0 - Alik'r Desert). Note this record is specifically for Alik'ra not Alik'r, and the region is linked from inside the political record. I'm pretty sure this is a capital/political head of the province.

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#508
type: 7
name: Alik'ra
rep: 0
summon: -1
region: 1
power: 5
flags: 128
flags: 4
flat: 180
face: -1
race: 3
flat: 182 18
sgroup: 3
ggroup: 15
minf: 20
maxf: 50
vam: 157

Some regions have a named ruler inside FACTION.TXT, such as King Gothryd of Daggerfall or Baron Shrike of Lainlyn. They appear as a very first subrecord of political capital with type=4 (individual) and sgroup=3 (nobility). If no such record exists, a random ruler can be generated.

I'm not sure of best way to link names to climate data (the method you mention is just a way of getting the climate name bank for local NPCs). If you test this in classic, I'm fairly sure it will just generate a Breton name or use the local climate data the player is currently inside of.

I can't see any way to link a capital to a climate pixel, other than doing a reverse lookup in the maps database (regionName="Alik'r Desert", locationName="Alik'ra"). Daggerfall could be doing this as it never had to contend with translation. But this would break if someone translated FACTION.TXT. It doesn't seem like a stable way to do it. Let me have a think on this.

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2018 9:23 pm**

Nystul wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 8:46 pm update: I think FactionData should be enough to do it - has ruler and race field this should suffice - will let you know

And you post this right after I make a lengthy detailed post explaining why using faction data is the right thing to do.

No worries, I'm glad we're both on the same page then!

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2018 9:29 pm**

thanks for your explanation - this is super valuable

Posted: **Sat May 19, 2018 2:49 am**

If I could interject: along with the name, I also suggest a way to get the monarch title, if it can be found along the way. It's the missing macro %nrn (currently resolves to "tavern" for me.) This is used occasionally in classic.

Posted: **Sat May 19, 2018 2:52 am**

That sounds reasonable Jay. Will leave it up to Nystul depending on where he goes with the first part above.

I'm sure someone will implement before too long.

Posted: **Sat May 19, 2018 2:53 am**

Actually I think it's already taken care of. I'm testing it now and %rt appears to fulfill that function instead.

EDIT: And %t, it seems.

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