Destroyed Cities

[applecat]

Hi
I have the civilization 3 complete edition, I used to play the original but I lost the CD :-( the only difference I can see with this version is that it automatically destroys any cities I take over. I used to have an option whether to destroy or take over a city. This is really annoying me, is there any way I can change this without buying the original version again?
Hope you can help
Thanks

 

[Elite]

It's not the game version it's a mechanic, you need more than 1 population in a city to have that choice, having one automatically destroys the city.

 

[vmxa]

It can be captured at size one, IF it has borders popped or the lone citizen is your nationality.

 

[Lanzelot]

It can be captured at size one, IF it has borders popped or the lone citizen is your nationality.

...or the nationality of a third party which you are not at war with.

Example: you are at war with Rome and at peace with Greece. The Romans have captured a Greek town in the past, which is now reduced to size 1 and has no culture expansion. The citizen in that town is still Greek. If you now capture that town from the Romans, it will not auto-raze!

 

[Lanzelot]

This question seems to come up quite often, so let me make a complete summary here.

A captured town will not be destroyed (auto-razed), if one of the following conditions is satisfied:

• It is size 2 or bigger.
• It has collected at least 10 culture points in it's history, either by your enemy or by one of its previous owners.
• The lone citizen living in that town has the nationality of a "third party" which is currently at peace with you.
  Example: you are at war with Rome and at peace with Greece. The Romans have captured a Greek town in the past, which is now reduced to size 1 and has had no culture expansion in its history. The citizen in that town is still Greek. If you now capture that town from the Romans, it will not auto-raze!

 

[Buttercup]

I've noticed that, during a war, the AI will burn through all its citizens to make Units, oftentime and quite quickly reducing its towns to one by the time you approach. I think this can be frustrating when combined with the AI's lack of interest in creating Culture, forcing the player to take Settlers on battle-marches (which is counter-intuitive).

Combine this with losing ALL your troops if that one town 'flips' back for whatever reason, regardless if you had 1,000,000 soldiers or 10 in a pop-size one town, and you have even more reason to perform the counter-intuitive action of making Settlers part of your 'army' (but not actually 'in' an Army Unit... sigh...).

Basically dude, just take some Settlers with you, lol.

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[Quintillus]

I believe it's the case that the more soldiers you have, the lower the chance of flipping, eventually reaching zero. So if you had 1000 soldiers in a city, I'm pretty sure you'd be safe.

Good summary, Lanzelot. Nice to see this written out completely in one post.

 

[Desertsnow]

As far as I know, the possibility of a flip never quite reaches zero, though it can become very small.