Peaceful conquest

beatgoeson90 · Sep 16, 2014

Hello civfanatics!
I'm a new member and I want to ask you this.
Few days agos, I was playing Civ V (BNW) as Austria. I was fighiting against Marocco. Few turns after the end of this war, suddenly a message appears: "You have conquered St. Peterburg" etc" even if actually I was not at war with Russia. Two days after this, I was playing as Byzantine at war with the Celts. A similar thing happened: "You have conquered Goshute (Shoshone)" even if I wasn't at war with them!
So, my question is: what happened? Is it a glitch or what?
Thank you for you answers!

Skykiller · Sep 16, 2014

What I think is that you "culture-flipped" their cities. If a civ has -20 unhapiness or more, their cities will slowly flip to the preferred civilization of the city (IIRC, it's the closest civilization which follows the favorite ideology of the city).

beatgoeson90 · Sep 16, 2014

Well, Goshute was close to the borders of my empire. But the first time, St. Peterburg was quite far from my empire, the city was located on an island.

shaglio · Sep 16, 2014

beatgoeson90 said:
Well, Goshute was close to the borders of my empire. But the first time, St. Peterburg was quite far from my empire, the city was located on an island.

But, was St. Petersburg the closest Russian city to your capital?

OBRkenobi · Sep 16, 2014

if you had the highest tourism or culture not sure which one then petersburg most likely culture flipped to you

reddishrecue · Sep 16, 2014

The city revolted from the larger empire due to unhappiness and eventually joined your empire.

beatgoeson90 · Sep 16, 2014

shaglio said:
But, was St. Petersburg the closest Russian city to your capital?

Actually no. Every city of my empire was quite far from St. Peterburg

Sidor1982 · Sep 17, 2014

beatgoeson90 said:
Actually no. Every city of my empire was quite far from St. Peterburg

Maybe your civ is the only one in the game with the desired ideology (they flip to the nearest civ with the desired ideology)

shaglio · Sep 17, 2014

beatgoeson90 said:
Actually no. Every city of my empire was quite far from St. Peterburg

I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm not asking if St. Petersburg was close to your capital, but rather whether St. Petersburg was closer to your capital than the rest of the Russian cities were. If you have high Ideological pressure over them, there's a chance their closest city could flip, no matter how far away their territory is from yours.

beatgoeson90 · Sep 20, 2014

shaglio said:
I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm not asking if St. Petersburg was close to your capital, but rather whether St. Petersburg was closer to your capital than the rest of the Russian cities were. If you have high Ideological pressure over them, there's a chance their closest city could flip, no matter how far away their territory is from yours.

Unfortunately, I don't remember this. However, I understood your explanation. Thank you so much!

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