Is there a way to tell which Ai city is the capital of the civ? Like a flag on the city or something? Or is the capital name always locked to the civ, such as washington always being the capital for US? I am trying to win by domination and hate having to take every city until I guess at which one the capital is. Thanks.

Learn the names of each civilization capital, there are always the same.
Washington
Madrid
etc..
Usually people learned that at school :D

You can't rebuild your palace somewhere else, like you can in other Civ games, so if you memorize the capitals, you're fine.

Make sure, specifically with the Aztecs, because there's a city that has an extremely similar name.

I think I found another way. It appears as though if you look at the city, there is a tall squarish building with an eagle on it for a capital. But good to know the capital is also the correct city thanks.

If you capture an enemy capital , do they get a replacement palance in another city ala Civ3/4? I know only the original capitals count for domination but I assume the game will assign a new capital if the original one is taken?

Nope. No replacement capital. You can even go so far to use a Great Artist to convert their last city.

At the beggining of the game you can just look to see which city has a palace. It will be the most unique looking building. Other than that just remeber the names.

Nope. No replacement capital. You can even go so far to use a Great Artist to convert their last city.

Or just simply culture-flip them in the regular way.

Or just simply culture-flip them in the regular way.

What's the regular way to culture flip?

Americans - Washington
Arabs - Tripoli
Aztecs - Tenochtitlan
Chinese - Beijing
Egyptians - Thebes
English - London
French - Paris
Germans - Berlin
Greeks - Athens
Indians - Delhi
Japanese - Kyoto
Mongolians - Karakorum
Spanish - Madrid
Romans - Rome
Russians - Moscow
Zulus - Zimbabwe

If you look closely you can see a spinning gold emblem (fist,eagle,etc.) on top of the palace buildings.

I was caught out by this, I kept thinking Mecca was the Arabian captial like it is in civ 4. Took me a two games against them to work out that it was actually Tripoli, I kept wondering why I was the defenders were getting a defence bonus in Tripoli but I figured it out when I was told that I only needed 3 more palaces to win. Now I just know them all, but that spinning gold symbol would have helped before...

What's the regular way to culture flip?

I'm curious what the irregular way to culture flip is...

am i wrong on this?is the capital the city that has a star round the number at the city name on the map.the rest of the citys have a circle round it.

am i wrong on this?is the capital the city that has a star round the number at the city name on the map.the rest of the citys have a circle round it.

I think you're thinking of Civ IV. No circles or stars in Rev.

If you look closely you can see a spinning gold emblem (fist,eagle,etc.) on top of the palace buildings.

Or more to the point, you can see a palace building. The other cities don't have anything like that in them.