[OOT] why no Timbuktu?

[telyadi]

Just a funny idea, based on my childhood nostalgic of "Donald duck" comics, why not design the nowhere land as Timbuktu, so maybe people stop asking "can i conquer Sahara ?"

[The General]

Just a funny idea, based on my childhood nostalgic of "Donald duck" comics, why not design the nowhere land as Timbuktu, so maybe people stop asking "can i conquer Sahara ?"
1. It wouldn't make sense history-wise (no one conquered Sahara, really, until the modern times, simply because controlling the greatest sandbox on earth is pretty much impossible without satellites etc, and, honestly, it's really not worth the trouble either)
2. It [the city there] is used for script-activated buildings that track the player's progress, or sumthin', which means it's best that the player doesn't get to fook things up there by razing stuff or whatever.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

There actually was a Timbuktu out in the middle of the Sahara, but it wasn't founded for more than a thousand years after the start date. So even as an uncouqerable settlement, that name would be ahistoric.