How do I destroy my districts?

[Aheadatime]

I can't seem to find a way to destroy my districts. If I want to totally re-vamp my district/improvement lay out for a city, how do I do so?

 

[manu-fan]

You can't. Once it's placed, it's placed.

 

[TehJumpingJawa]

- let the AI conquer your city.
- reconquer it.
- raze it and start again.

Yeah.......

 

[Onii-chan]

You don't

Pretty simple

I.E: think before acting

 

[fatgordy]

- let the AI conquer your city.

If only this worked. AI is too dumb to figure it out.

 

[esoba]

While I completely understand the "thinking before you place it" thought, there should also be an option to raze your own district. Even if it required 1 builder charge per building in the district and a final charge for the district itself. There are just times when it's worth a complete loss of a district if you want to replace thousands of years in the future.

 

[Aheadatime]

Er.. so you guys don't think this is an issue? What imbalances or harms would it cause if we could deconstruct our districts for a piddly amount of gold? If none, why wouldn't the feature be added, since it would bring so many benefits to the sim-city side of the game?

 

[SammyKhalifa]

While I completely understand the "thinking before you place it" thought, there should also be an option to raze your own district. Even if it required 1 builder charge per building in the district and a final charge for the district itself. There are just times when it's worth a complete loss of a district if you want to replace thousands of years in the future.

Yeah it's silly and I imagine going to be patched. Even 1 turn and zero hammers towards building (you selected it for production and then change to something else) locks it in.

 

[Jaybe]

Nah, it's fine as it is. Without making mistakes how are you going to learn so you can do it better next game, or even next city?

 

[SammyKhalifa]

Nah, it's fine as it is. Without making mistakes how are you going to learn so you can do it better next game, or even next city?

So if you lose a wonder race, should you be stuck with an unusable hex the rest of the game?

 

[KrikkitTwo]

So if you lose a wonder race, should you be stuck with an unusable hex the rest of the game?

No because if you lose the Wonder race the tile clears..
You will never "lose a district race" once placed you will always be able to finish it.

(there should be a "are you sure you want to place this district here Y/N" pop up...just like there should be with harvesting...unless you explicitly turn those popups off)

 

[stiiknafuulia]

Nah, it's fine as it is. Without making mistakes how are you going to learn so you can do it better next game, or even next city?

Here's a conundrum. When I've made a mistake and realized it, should I be a) forced to suffer for it for the entire game for no good reason; or b) be able to raze the district (at a cost) and replace it during the same game?

Like there being no 'back' button in the Civilopedia, there is no excuse for this 'feature'. Luckily I keep my autosaves on 'every turn', but it's still annoying, especially when you misclick the damn district. If not A-1 priority for the first patch, certainly B-1 at least.

 

[chazzycat]

It's meant to be an impactful decision with both short & long-term repercussions, like founding a city or DOWing someone. Adding an "undo" button would get you around the long-term repercussions, thereby making the decision much less interesting and impactful.

If you just mis-clicked, that's what autosave is for.
If you made a bad decision, learn from it.

 

[stiiknafuulia]

Razing your own city would be a welcome option, now that I think of it (afaik, it hasn't been possible in any Civ so far). It should come at a significant cost, in addition to the 'lost' Settler from doing it. But if you can raze enemy cities, logically it should be possible, at least up to a certain point (say, < size 5).

 

[redwings1340]

I did have a glitch in my game where I pillaged Ghandi's holy site, shrine, and temple before taking his city, then I gave it back to him in the peace deal (I was experiencing a lot of war weariness and needed to make peace, and he had cavalry against my crossbow/UU Kongo swords), and during the transfer of ownership, the holy site was somehow destroyed. Ghandi eventually built a campus on top of the tile where the holy site was before.

However, unless you can pull off that specific sequence of events, I think its impossible to destroy a district.

(thinking about it, maybe this happened because I was kongo, actually?)