gold from conquering city?

[Dooke]

Hi All

My friend google couldnt tell me what determines how much gold you get from conquering a city, so hoped you guys could help me out.

Is it based on city population, how much gold the civ has, number of buildings in city or something totaly else?

 

[beestar]

I remembered that I asked this question last year, but had a heck of a time trying to Google it in the forum for you - I think the problem was that the title was 'capturing' a city instead of 'conquering' a city. Anyway, here's the thread.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=326456

The answer, courtesy of Voice of Unreason, is

Assets\Python\CvGameUtils.py

def doCityCaptureGold(self, argsList):
	"controls the gold result of capturing a city"
	
	pOldCity = argsList[0]
	
	iCaptureGold = 0
	
	iCaptureGold += gc.getDefineINT("BASE_CAPTURE_GOLD")
	iCaptureGold += (pOldCity.getPopulation() * gc.getDefineINT("CAPTURE_GOLD_PER_POPULATION"))
	iCaptureGold += CyGame().getSorenRandNum(gc.getDefineINT("CAPTURE_GOLD_RAND1"), "Capture Gold 1")
	iCaptureGold += CyGame().getSorenRandNum(gc.getDefineINT("CAPTURE_GOLD_RAND2"), "Capture Gold 2")

	if (gc.getDefineINT("CAPTURE_GOLD_MAX_TURNS") > 0):
		iCaptureGold *= cyIntRange((CyGame().getGameTurn() - pOldCity.getGameTurnAcquired()), 0, gc.getDefineINT("CAPTURE_GOLD_MAX_TURNS"))
		iCaptureGold /= gc.getDefineINT("CAPTURE_GOLD_MAX_TURNS")
		
	return iCaptureGold

Assets\XML\GlobalDefines.xml

BASE_CAPTURE_GOLD = 20
CAPTURE_GOLD_PER_POPULATION = 10
CAPTURE_GOLD_RAND1 = 50
CAPTURE_GOLD_RAND2 = 50
CAPTURE_GOLD_MAX_TURNS = 50

If I'm translating this correctly, the amount of gold you would get is scaled back by how long the city has been under the previous players control - when you recapture one of your cities on the same turn, for instance, you should get no gold. From what I can see, that 50 turn count is absolute (does not scale with game speed).

But otherwise: 20 + 10 * pop + two dice rolls.