How do we want to handle captured cities?

[DaveShack]

We're kicking around the idea of a war with Mongolia and possibly taking two cities (or more). We haven't been talking yet about what we should do with them once we've captured them.

Arguments for razing captured cities
Captured cities obviously count towards our number of cities, which impacts the maintenance and inflation numbers. Far away cities can have maintenance higher than their income, which we have already painfully seen can have an impact on scientific research. There is also some chance that the citizens of a captured city might revolt against us and rejoin their former civ, or possibly worse, join another of our neighbors.

Arguments for keeping captured cities
If we capture cities, we don't need to build settlers, or wait for them to travel to the remote locations. This cuts back on the risk of others reaching those locations after we raze a city and before we can resettle it ourselves. Keeping cities also limits our exposure to negative world opinion due to razing (if that's even a consideration).

What do you want to do?

 

[robboo]

Well I think it depends on the city.

The three we are thinking of taking fit very nice tactically in future wars and control of our continent. The cost increase will be offset some what by trade and by the pillaging that we are planning.

If we decide to raze the cities..there is no use attacking now( wait till we are better economically) or attack RIGHT NOW. In fact if we decide to raze then we should attack NOW and settle with our settler in place at Site Beta. Why prolong it. We should probably poll this and maybe delay our TC if the raze option is considered. We can kill Old Sarai right now with out breaking a sweat and the settler is 2 tiles from the settlement location. The war would be over in the next TC( probably).

 

[Vind2]

If the cities that we capture are posisioned well (No dumb places or overlap) we should keep them, if not, let 'em burn

 

[Pajka]

1) If we wanted to raze Old Sarai, we have done it immediatelly as it was founded.
2) When planning the City5 location, one of inputs was the fact that we want to wait for Old Sarai to grow to size 2, take it and keep it. And as there was big support for my proposed city location, I understand it as there is as well support for keeping Old Sarai. So only other two Mongolian cities can be questioned ... but the Mongolian city to the south of Toot Uncommon seems very well located too.

My opinion is that we keep all the 3 captured cities even though it will increase maintenance and slow down our science. We have to believe that it will mean that someone will beat us to Philosophy. And anyway next research is obligatory: Code of Laws... and get the Courthouses built!