Do CSs always raze captured cities?

[Melchizedek]

Something I've noticed since the most recent patch is that city states invariably raze any city they capture. Does anyone know if this has been done intentionally? I guess maybe it's to keep you from getting too many resource bonuses from them, but I kind of liked watching them build cute little empires from time to time...

 

[Menzies]

In cases where they can't they do hand onto them. I've seen a city state take a capital before and even other city states and in these cases they have to keep them.

 

[JWAT44]

i love it when city states conquer each other but it sucks when a city state wastes its military trying to conquer a city then fails and gets conquered

 

[Louis XXIV]

I've seen pictures where they kept cities they didn't have to, but that's extraordinarily rare. They will keep cities you can't raise, such as capitols, though.

 

[jtb1127]

No they do not always raze cities. I have gotten a city taken by one of them before and it was not razed. I took it back like ten turns later too.

 

[apocalypse105]

I thinx this is with the new patch implented because before they just keep the citie...

Olso if it is the last citie of a civilization they mostly burn it down

If you watch maddejin's(dont know how you write it) walktrough of china you can actually see that some citie states took cities and keep them....
And in his walktrough of montezuma a citie state took one of his cities and kept it...

 

[Melchizedek]

I also think this is a feature of the new patch. I don't much approve!

 

[muhtesem insan]

I also think this is a feature of the new patch. I don't much approve!

nope. it happened me pre-patch. (a couple of months ago)

 

[Menzies]

What, them razing cities? They've been doing it all along.

I can confirm for sure that they've done it since before the last patch and back late last year. How? Because I haven't seen them even capture a city with the current patch, but I've seen them do it on the previous one and back only a few months after release as well.

 

[Marsoups]

I seen a city state capture 3 cities. Kept 2 razed one, this was on an island near the antarctic, the cities he kept had a decent pop after capture. I think the decision to raze is based on desirability of the city and its pop, at least that seems to be my experience.

 

[Louis XXIV]

Yeah, they're more willing to raise, but don't have to. I wonder if they get affected by happiness as well.