Buildings destroyed when City conquered

[Tamman]

I've noticed that the buildings in cities are almost totally destroyed whenever a city gets conquered. I was wondering if anyone has done any work on modding this so we don't have to start from scratch whenever a city gets conquered.

While some buildings getting destroyed seems understandable it just dosent make sense for 10/12 buildings to get destroyed in a conquest. Does the troops used or the amount of bombing or artillery used make a difference? I haven't been able to figure a way to reduce the chances in game.

 

[roylee]

I agree, too many building are destroyed if the city is large.

 

[Genghis Jon]

I was wondering about this very thing the other night. I have yet to conquer a city and find a single building left standing. This seems very broken. One building destroyed per unit defeated during the process of the siege seems about right to me.

 

[roidesfoux]

In Assets\XML\Buildings\CIV4BuildingInfos.xml there is a line

<iConquestProb>66</iConquestProb>

for each building. I'm assuming that this is the probability that the building will NOT be destroyed when you capture a city. It's set to 100 for for all World Wonders, 0 for Palace, National Wonders, and all cultural buildings (except Academy), which matches that I've seen. Most of the rest are set to 66. My guess is that this is the line you're looking for.

-RdF

 

[Tamman]

Thanks for the tip Roidesfoux.

I'll try playing around with that, although it doesnt seem right to me that theres a 66% for each building to survive when conqurered. I definately have not seen a survival rate approaching that in any of my games. Perhaps theres other modifiers?

Anyway thanks again.

 

[triplethreat54]

"In Assets\XML\Buildings\CIV4BuildingInfos.xml there is a line
<iConquestProb>66</iConquestProb>"
I went to the file and was unable to edit the line.
Am I doing something wrong?
Please help.

 

[Adam7Eight]

"In Assets\XML\Buildings\CIV4BuildingInfos.xml there is a line
<iConquestProb>66</iConquestProb>"
I went to the file and was unable to edit the line.
Am I doing something wrong?
Please help.

You need to open the XML file in Wordpad or Notepad in order to edit it.