Captured cities

[Fly or Die]

What do you do with a city you got captured?

Usually i let 3/4 of my best defenders defend it and then let the city build a temple so it can expand in culture.

I'm curious to know what you are doing with those city's because im still a noobie

 

[Ginger_Ale]

First, I get all resistance out by putting military police in there. Less chance of flipping, and you can rush things. Then, I'll rush a Temple (or a Library if I'm scientific - more culture, less cost). After that, settlers and workers, so less foreign population = less chance of flipping, again. In the beginning, before it has no resistance, change some of the citizens to taxmen/scientists, especially if it is a corrupt, faraway city (you'll get more gold this way, rather than lose it to corruption!) Overall, your strategy works too.

 

[Fly or Die]

the bad part of my tactic is that a city doesnt produce anything altough it has a size of like.. 12, and even if i build a factory (mostly rush) the city needs 40/50 turns for something like a colloseum.

i have no clue what to do about it if it is possible, mayby it is just the way it goes by captured cities, i dont know...

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Could you upload a screenshot of your empire? Maybe that would help us give you feedback. Thanks.

 

[Tomoyo]

Either build a courthouse or use it as a specialist farm (irrigate all).

 

[Fly or Die]

what excactly is a specialist farm? i'm sorry but im new to this community (and game) so i don't know those words

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Food is the only thing in cities that does not corrupt. (Unlike shields and gold.) A "farm" is where you irrigate all tiles around the city that can be irrigated, and have the farm mostly produce workers/settlers. That way, your other cities can focus on improvements, and not have to worry about building workers/settlers, or losing population.

 

[Gogf]

I quell the resistors, maybe startve it down, build the needed courthouses, police stations, and then make it into a productive city.

 

[nameless53]

buy purposely enhancing growth, new population of your nationality appears (right?) therefore lowering the effects of resistance and your troops will move on.


i have 2 things i do to cities.

1. is the "vampire" way.. i simply keep it and restore order ASAP so my troops will heal/recover (leech all i can) there (b4 battle med.. but even then if you got a barrack it heals right away) so usually i leave my MOST DAMAGED inside city and move rest out. once it is fully healed and the city is of no value (land, location, people, convience) i sell what i can and abandon it regardless of who is in there.

2. keep it and build temple, lib., gran, ect.. all improvements, no troops.

 

[Tomoyo]

A specialist farm is a high food high corruption low shield city that has all it's tiles irrigated, with a lot of taxmen and scientists.

 

[Colonel]

Yea on my recent game i used a good yet bad tactic. I starve down to one citizen then sell it off to Russian-the cities were celtic- i had the largest civ already and didnt want anymore cities

 

[nameless53]

high corruption?

that stinks.. i hate corrutions (especially on shields) and thats why i end up filling all the specialist as policeman until all shields or MAX number of shields are recovered from corruption.

 

[Tomoyo]

According to the manual, shields can't be corrupted. They are wasted. Gold is corrupted.

 

[nameless53]

..um... well.. um... well you see police help "waste less"... by redcucing corruption... or something

smarty pants

 

[Fly or Die]

A specialist farm is a high food high corruption low shield city that has all it's tiles irrigated, with a lot of taxmen and scientists.

ah that way! i kinda like this tactic i'm going to use it in my newest game thx

 

[chancellor_dan]

Depends on its location, but i often raise them and replace them with cities of my own.

 

[Psychonaut777]

I quell the resistance and immediately rush a baracks if its on the front lines (to heal my forces on the invasion) or a temple or granery. I continue to rush / starve the pop down as low as possible and then try to make it productive.