How to Abandon a City

[bigbruthr]

In my current game I have gone to war with the Greeks and captured one of their cities but I accidentally kept the city rather than raise it. Now I would like to get rid of this poor city, but I can’t figure out how to abandon the city (like you could do in Civ 3).

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks.

 

[MattJek]

I dont think you can do it ( I remember other post about this topic). I guess you're gonna hafta reload the game and raise the city one you capture it again

 

[flytyer]

Or, if you really don't want it and you don't think it will come back to bite you later...I would gift it to another Civ.

 

[henrycccc]

Gift it to a very weak civ, then declare war while it is still empty. You know what to do next....

 

[MeteorPunch]

contact Firaxis about it...tell them they forgot something.

 

[Lateralus]

contact Firaxis about it...tell them they forgot something.

ROFLMAYO

Yeah, it bothers me as well that it's not possible to abandon cities

 

[signal]

Hi,

I have never had any desire to abandon a city in any of my games, but if ever the situation did arise I would do the following: open up the game editor and simply delete the city.

This, of course, could only fairly be performed in a single player game. Logically, a city could be abandoned if the cost of maintaining (or rebuilding, upgrading, etc) exceeded the value that could be extracted from the city.

I think this is a fair and valid move when playing single player. For multiplayer situations, terms would have to be agreed upon before the game. Ultimately, I do not think it will make that big of an impact on any game.

One only has to look at recent history to see examples of a possible city abandonment: New Orleans, places that have been struck by earthquakes, old time western cities in USA that are only small tourist spots without a population, but were once thriving mining towns, etc. [note: this last part concerning New Orleans I am not entirely sure of, but I heard there was talk of not rebuilding it... I do not know where the citizenry and gov't stand on this issue today.]