Do buildings stay intact when a city is not bombarded?

[Terrorfrodo]

When I capture an enemy city, usually all or nearly all buildings in it are destroyed, except some special ones like wonders. I always thought that this is caused by the bombardment with catapults or cannons that happens before the actual capture to weaken city defense.
So I guessed that when I do not bombard the city, but storm it rightaway with only e.g. swordsmen, the buildings would stay intact. That would be reasonable, I guess, and since I pay for that advantage with higher losses, not un-balanced.

However, it seems to me that it doesn't really matter whether a city is bombarded before capture or not. So what are the facts?

 

[carl corey]

I doubt that this has anything to do with bombardment, since even in later eras I capture cities with buildings in them even though I bombard each and every one of them before attacking. I don't know how this works though. There might be a random part to it with regard to the "usual" buildings (not world wonders, academies, or military academies).

 

[MrCynical]

Bombardment has no effect on destruction of city buildings. A the moment when a city is captured all buildings that generate culture except academies and world wonders are automatically destroyed. All other non-wonders have a chance of being destroyed, but might survive. There's nothing you can do to influence the outcome.

 

[Proteus]

Maybe something to change in a mod,
so that (for example) every bombardment and every attack means that there is a probability of buildings getting destroyed.
(or every atack/bombardment accumulates points which increase the number/chance of buildings getting destroyed after the attacker takes over the city [points which disappear after a couple of turns without attacks on the city, reflecting repairs going on])

 

[Paeanblack]

Ive noticed that Forges and Lighthouses have a tendency to survive city captures, even though they produce no culture.

 

[DaviddesJ]

There is a variable called iConquestProb in the XML; this seems to relate to the chance of survival. It only takes on three values (0=never survives, 66=sometimes survives, 100=always survives). It doesn't seem to be a probability, though---the chance of survival that I've seen seems definitely less than 66%.

Buildings with iConquestProb=100:

Academy Angkor_Wat Broadway Buddhist_Shrine Chichen_Itza Christian_Shrine Colossus Confucian_Shrine Eiffel_Tower Great_Dam Great_Library Great_Lighthouse Hagia_Sophia Hanging_Garden Hindu_Shrine Hollywood Islamic_Shrine Jewish_Shrine Kremlin Notre_Dame Oracle Parthenon Pentagon Pyramid Rocknroll Sistine_Chapel Space_Elevator Spiral_Minaret Statue_Of_Liberty Stonehenge Taj_Mahal Taoist_Shrine United_Nations Versailles

Buildings with iConquestProb=66:

Aqueduct Bank Bomb_Shelter Broadcast_Tower Bunker Coal_Plant Colosseum Courthouse Drydock Factory Forge Granary Grocer Harbor Hospital Hydro_Plant Jail Laboratory Lighthouse Market Nuclear_Plant Observatory Recycling_Center Supermarket

Buildings with iConquestProb=0:

Airport Barracks Buddhist_Cathedral Buddhist_Monastery Buddhist_Temple Castle Christian_Cathedral Christian_Monastery Christian_Temple Confucian_Cathedral Confucian_Monastery Confucian_Temple Globe_Theatre Great_Palace Hermitage Heroic_Epic Hindu_Cathedral Hindu_Monastery Hindu_Temple Iron_Works Islamic_Cathedral Islamic_Monastery Islamic_Temple Jewish_Cathedral Jewish_Monastery Jewish_Temple Library Mt_Rushmore National_Epic Obelisk Oxford_University Palace Red_Cross Scotland_Yard Taoist_Cathedral Taoist_Monastery Taoist_Temple Theatre University Wall_Street Walls West_Point

 

[Terrorfrodo]

Thanks for the answers

 

[DaviddesJ]

Ive noticed that Forges and Lighthouses have a tendency to survive city captures, even though they produce no culture.

That's because they produce no culture. It's the buildings that produce culture that don't survive.

 

[CivDude86]

If you do change it so culture producing buildings can be captured remember captured buildings don't produce culture.