Recently, I was on vacation and visiting national landmarks. So-and-so rock, famous overlook, bridge this, and valley that. Civilizations name forests, mountains have names, monuments are erected for famous events, people and so forth.
While playing Civ4 I noticed that none of these things were identified. If I own territory, a specific mountain range may provide me with strategic advantage, but beyond that I have no connection to that piece of land. Rivers, fertile grassland, forests, all very valuable real estate, never really have any cultural significance to the civilizations controlling them.
What I propose is that Elemental allows for the naming of geographic features such as forests and mountain ranges, as well as a system for the marking of locations of significance such as the where major battles have taken place.
Such a system could be automated, while allowing the owning player to edit them. The system would give areas a generic name, and allow for a brief description giving players the opportunity to tie landmarks to their civilizations culture. Of course all of this would be optional, ideally to the point of being disabled in the options menu.
Thoughts?
