Cleansing captured cities

[Delphi456]

Will this work?

You keep a captured city, starve it down to one. Let it grow to size 2, with production set to worker. The turn before the worker is built, set the foreign citizen to a specialist. Shouldn't this convert the foreign specialist into the worker instead of the native citizen?

If a foreign worker is produced, does it work at 'native' speed or 'slave' speed?

 

[Quintillus]

Will this work?

You keep a captured city, starve it down to one. Let it grow to size 2, with production set to worker. The turn before the worker is built, set the foreign citizen to a specialist. Shouldn't this convert the foreign specialist into the worker instead of the native citizen?

If a foreign worker is produced, does it work at 'native' speed or 'slave' speed?

Didn't test it just now, but my understanding is that you always get native workers if you have native populace.

But foreign workers will always work at 'slave' speed, even if produced from your cities. Still, they're maintenance-free, so you can't complain too much.

 

[GamezRule]

Slaves can get annoying when you are trying to do a unit count, though.

 

[TheOverseer714]

The only way you get rid of that last foreign citizen is disband the city or wait til he assimilates, which may be 10 turns or never, seems pretty random.

 

[vmxa]

Slaves can get annoying when you are trying to do a unit count, though.

CAII will give you a count of slaves.

 

[Aabraxan]

The only way you get rid of that last foreign citizen is disband the city or wait til he assimilates, which may be 10 turns or never, seems pretty random.

Once upon a time, I whipped the last foreign citizen away. I seldom use pop-rush governments, so I remember this one well. I was playing a military game as India, in a Feudal government. I whipped something (don't remember what), and the last foreigner vanished. I'll dig around to see if I can find the save.

 

[ChaosArbiter]

I believe there was an example of whipping or starving the last foreign citizen in a game I read ... I want to say it was "The Terrain Unwise Romans," but all I remember is that the citizen was Russian and the city had been taken from the Egyptians.

 

[Aabraxan]

OK. I've switched computers since I played the game that I mentioned. Apparently, though, I put some saves onto a thumb drive.