City Razing

[Steel_Khalil]

Does Razing cities hurt your rep or attitude of other civs towards you?
I've been doing honorable wars, but i raze all cities i capture.
But then, everybody hated me, why was that?
Then everybody started declaring war at me. >.<
Feel like all of the world hates me lol

 

[gmaharriet]

Does Razing cities hurt your rep or attitude of other civs towards you?

It hurts their attitude toward you, but has no effect on your rep.

I've been doing honorable wars, but i raze all cities i capture.
But then, everybody hated me, why was that?

Razing affects their attitude.

Then everybody started declaring war at me. >.<

That could be caused by several things. You didn't say what year it is. In the early game, other civs declare if they think your military is weak, and some of the more agressive tribes like the Germans, Zulus, Aztecs just seem to enjoy fighting. Also, you may have a resource the other civs want.

In the later game, keep an eye on your F4 screen (and be sure you have embassies so you can see the AI relationships). If they have MPPs with each other, you can end up being declared on by another civ if you attack just one of the partners to the MPP.

In any era of the game, if you attack another civ, they may buy other civs into a Military Alliance against you. Sometimes you can prevent this by allying another civ first to help you before your enemy can ally with them.

Lastly, if you are very close to victory of any sort, it appears to draw attacks from other civs just to prevent you from winning. This isn't in any official game rule that I know of, but it just seems that way to me. I'll be attacked a few turns before I complete a space ship or before I achieve a cultural win.

 

[Steel_Khalil]

Also, you may have a resource the other civs want.

Maybe that's the reason >.<
But still, the Arabs, Ottoman, Portugese (and more) started declaring at me but no MA's.

Do they attack for revenge? (ie. You attacked them before)

 

[mr_lewington]

dude, im playing a game and i loaded it, 6 cities in a row the game FORCED me 2 raise Wat the floop?

 

[Walliard]

Population 1 cities with no culture are always auto-razed.

 

[mr_lewington]

is it ok if its a level 2 city w/o culture?

 

[Aabraxan]

If it's pop 2, it won't autoraze.

 

[Steel_Khalil]

i know this is kinda of stupid question but...
why does auto-razing happen? >.<

 

[JDAllison]

i know this is kinda of stupid question but...
why does auto-razing happen? >.<

Well, because when you take a city, it loses one population point. 1-1=0, so a 1-pop city is razed.

 

[civverguy]

Does auto-razing hurt rep?

 

[JDAllison]

Razing never hurts reputation, but it will affect attitude. I'm not aware, however, that autorazing affects attitude.

 

[Steel_Khalil]

oooh o.o
just another stupid question... why do they lose 1 pop?

 

[Plantagenet_K_W]

Just read this thread and it has made me wonder exactly what is the difference between reputation and attitude.
Doesn't one affect the other?

 

[Aabraxan]

Reputation affects your ability to trade and make deals. Attitude influences the likelihood that the AI will declare war on you under a given set of circumstances. It is entirely possible that everyone in the world will be furious with you (attitude), but that you will still be able to trade per-turn resources (reputation).

 

[JDAllison]

"They may hate me, but they gotta respect me!"

@Steel_Khalil: This is to reflect the real-world effect of taking a city. If the Canadians were to invade the US and take a city (work with me here ), there would be loss of life. I personally think that quite a few people would die in such an event, not to mention the number of people who evacuate (Oh my gosh! They just killed Kenny!). In Civ, the developers knew this and added this feature to try to balance out gameplay.

 

[Steel_Khalil]

Oh.. okay thanks for answering my question ^_^